Lot 147 - Cecilia Charlton - Portal 2

ARTIST INFO

About 

London-based American artist Cecilia Charlton received a BFA Painting in 2015 from Hunter College in NYC, and an MA Painting from the Royal College of Art, London in 2018. She creates hand-made embroideries and weavings that engage with the formal histories of abstraction to explore a broad range of themes including the cosmos, memory, and current events. Through manipulations of geometric pattern and colour her artworks achieve an optically challenging and playful approach, questioning the hierarchy between painting and textiles. Themes of feminism, human history, time and transcendence are inherently part of the hand-sewn work, and her investigation into the history of textiles from creative, cultural, and socio-economic perspectives underpins Charlton’s studio practice. Spanning the mediums of textiles, installation, and art in the social sphere, the work results in conversation tending towards both the personal and the universal. 

Education 

MA Painting, RCA (2018); BFA Painting, Hunter College (2015) 

Select Exhibitions/Awards 

Selected Exhibitions 

2023  

Altered Sites: On Psychedelic Architecture, West Dean College, West Dean UK 
Memory Garden, Garden Museum, London UK (solo) 
COLLECT Art Fair, Candida Stevens Gallery, Somerset House, London UK 
Syzygy, Candida Stevens Gallery, Chichester UK (solo) 

2022 

Jerwood Art Fund Makers Open, Jerwood Arts (London), Newlyn Art Gallery (Newlyn, Cornwall), Aberdeen Art Gallery (Aberdeen, Scotland) 
COLLECT Art Fair, Candida Stevens Gallery, London 

2021 

Mammoth Loop, SPACE Ilford, London, sponsored by Mercers Charitable Foundation (solo) 
Love Token, Robert Young Antiques, London (solo) 
Folk Art, London Art Fair, Platform, Candida Stevens Gallery, London 

2020 

Aurora, Candida Stevens Gallery, Chichester UK (solo) 
Hanging by a thread, freethegallery, London 
When you make sense I feel, Fitzrovia Gallery, London 

2019 

In Praise of Shadows, curated by Ione & Mann, London 
Parade, Broadway Gallery, curated by Kris Day, Letchworth Garden City UK 
Domestic Hospitality, Zetter Hotel, London 
RA Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of the Arts, London 
Tender Touches, AMP Gallery, London  
Grid :: Preset, Blyth Gallery, London 

2018 

FAKERS, curated by Cypher Collective, Thamesside Gallery, London 
Lifeline as Medium, 532 Gallery, NYC 
STUDIO.US is an Experiment: Mix.B, Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art, London 
From This Time - Unchained, curated by Ione & Mann, London 
Rogue Objects, Bloomsbury Festival, University College London, London 
Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Unit 3 Projects, London 
COUPLES, The Hand, Brooklyn NY 
SURGE: the East Wing Biennial, Courtauld Institute, London 
RCA Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London 
Rubber-chew // Clink, adieu, Unit 1 Gallery, London 
An Audience of Echoes, Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London 
Plants People Pots [an invitation], Pinch Project Space, London 
 
Selected Honors 
2022 Brookfield Properties Craft Prize, short-listed 
2021 Jerwood Arts, Jerwood Makers Open Award 
2020 Vlieseline Fine Art Textiles Award, short-listed 
2016 Fulbright UK Open Award, short-listed 

Gallery Representation 

Candida Stevens Gallery 

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork 

Lately, I have been thinking of my artworks as portals. Not only for the viewer but also for myself to fall into during the process of making. Using artwork to access a transcendental space; utilizing colors, materials, and process to experience the sublime. 

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