ARTIST BIO / STATEMENT

 

Charlie is a contemporary mixed media Artist, born and raised in Brighton. After studying Art at Brighton College, Design at Leeds Met and Fine Art Sculpture at Lincoln University, she returned home and qualified as a teacher at The University of Brighton.

 

 

Her work is evocative and immersive, guiding the viewer through a journey of visual storytelling - weaving together fragments of memory, dream, and observation. She manipulates her canvases using not only brushes but an array of unconventional tools. Many of her works are cut in to, sewn, burnt and built up - skilfully blending traditional and unexpected materials like oils, acrylics and inks with unusual elements such as resin, alcohol, coffee, concrete and liquid metal.

In 2010, she was signed by her first London gallery. Since then, she’s exhibited internationally and been shortlisted for numerous awards and prizes, including The Secret Art Prize, Pebeo Mixed Media, and Women in Making for Stylist Magazine. Her work has appeared in publications such as Art Habens Magazine and Italian PRIS MAG, and she was the commissioned cover artist for a University of Sussex journal, now held at the British Library. Her work has sold in to both public and private collections.

 

ART HABENS Magazine:

“Multidisciplinary is a crucial feature of the work that reveals an incessant search for an organic, almost intimate symbiosis between traditional techniques and unconventional materials. Esposito’s hybrid approach is intrinsically connected to the chance of creating an area of intellectual interplay with the viewers, who are urged to evolve from the condition of a merely passive audience.”

— Dario Rutigliano, Curator & Editor

 

 

Charlie has recently become Co-Founder of Brighton Women Artists, following a collaborative curatorial pairing. A project which has already sparked interest in the city, and which both founders hope will grow in to a powerful exhibiting group. 

 

In addition to being an Artist and Designer, Charlie is a qualified teacher. She was formerly a member of the Audi Design Foundations ‘New Talent Group’ a collective of designers and educators recognised for their exceptional talent in terms of both subject knowledge and teaching. In 2007, she developed a teaching resource for schools in collaboration with Wayne Hemmingway of Hemmingway Design, later working with Dyson on Educational handling collections. She has written several published educational articles and was a contributing author for a version of the AQA GCSE Product Design workbook, published by CGP Books.

 

 

EXHIBITIONS & COMMISSIONS

 

2025 (June) New York Marriott Marquis Hotel, Times Square - Digital Display of "The Alchemist."

 

2025 Mid Sreet Lab Gallery, Kemptown, Brighton (UK) - 5 week exhibition including Brighton Fringe & Brighton Artists Open Houses "Time is the Real Currency."

 

2024 THOMSON GALLERY, ZUC, Switzerland - Group Show 

 

2024 ANDAKULOVA GALLERY, Dubai - Group Show

 

2024 CASA DEL ARTE PALMA, Spain - Group Show

 

2024 VR Exhibition & Auction - Air Ambulance Service UK.

 

2024 G Gallery, New York.

 

2024 Featured in MItalian article "Structurally Fucked" written by Alessia Bisini for PRIS MAG.

 

2024 NFT NYC Artists, Showcase, Hudson Yards, New York.   

 

2023 Art Gallery emag 2 full pages publication

 

2023 SME NEWS UK Enterprise AWARD WINNER

Most Innovative Contemporary Mixed Media Artist 2023: Charlotte Esposito

 

2023 Private Commission Infinite Infinity, London. 

 

2023 NFT NYC Artists Showcase, Hudson Yards, New York. 

 

2023 Sussex University Library - permanent exhibition. Excursions Journal Cover Artist Commission Winner, Brighton. 

 

2022 Stratosphere NFTNYC, New York. 

 

2022 NFT Liverpool, UK. Digital Exhibtion

  

2022 Emotive Abstractions, Solo Show, Spatial Gallery, The Metaverse

 

2022 Open Event Solo Showcase Va Pensiero Lounge, Brighton  

 

2021 Sussex University Libraries Commissioned Artists Exhibition Excursions Journal: selected

as cover artist for Excursions Journal Magazine - art printed on cover & mag distributed internationally including to the British Library on theme of (Re) Connect post lockdown. 

 

2021 Brighton Artists Open Houses (UK) including Meet The Artist all day event (x4 weekends)

 

2021 Artist in Residence - Va Pensiero Lounge, Brighton 

 

2020 Va Pensiero Lounge - Artists Open Houses in Windows (lockdown version)

 

2020 Big Beach Café, Brighton

 

2019 Va Pensiero Lounge - permanent solo exhibition / Artist in Residence 

 

2018 Prize Winners Exhibition - Pebeo Mixed Media ART PRIZE, The Menier Gallery, London 

 

2018 Shortlisted for The Pebeo Mixed Media Art Prize 2018

 

2017 Jubilee Library (Brighton) , Jubilee Street, Brighton. 

 

2017 Pancakes & Booze ART SHOW - Studio Spaces, E1, London. 

 

2017 Pebeo Mixed Media ART PRIZE 2017 - Prize Winners Exhibition, The Strand Gallery, London.

 

2017 Shortlisted for Pebeo Mixed Media Art Prize.

 

2017 Solo Show (month long - April 1st till May 4th), Junkyard Dogs ART GALLERY, Brighton, UK. 

 

2017 High End Interior Wall Art Commission - BLOCK Bar & Restaurant, 101 St Jame's Street, Brighton, UK.

 

2017 Pancakes & Booze Contemporary Art Exhibition, Studio Spaces, E1 - London.

 

2016 FLUX Exhibition, The Old Truman Brewery, East London.

 

2016 Longlisted for The Secret Art Prize 2016, Curious Duke Gallery, London.

 

2016 The Cult House Collective, The Underdog Gallery, London.

 

2016 Commission - bespoke Adidas Superstars 'Urban Warrior' project.

 

2016 Flyer Art Gallery, Rome - ART ROME, contemporary exhibition.

 

2015 selected for publication in ART HABENS MAGAZINE - ART REVIEW (Special Edition).

 

2015  Site Specific (large scale) ART MURAL COMMISSION - Lipstick & Gunpowder (Salon & Beauty Parlour), Brighton.

 

2015 Collaborative Exhibition at BAR GALLERY, London - Figure & Portrait.

 

2015 Collaborative Exhibit at The Melia White House, Regents Park, London.

 

2015 On going representation & Exhibition with Le Dame Art Gallery, London.

 

2015 The Coffee Art Project, Gallery 8, The Old Truman Brewery, London.

 

2015 Solo space at ART ROOMS 2015, International Art Fair, Regents Park, London.

 

2014 Long Term show, Room 5, Brighton.

 

2014 Silent Art Auction (Brighton Festival open house season) at the 'Dharma School', Brighton.

 

2014 'Little Treasures', Galleria Di Marchi, Bologna - organised by Trevisan International Art.

 

2013/2014 selected to take part in the 'Oxford International Art Fair' - Feb 2014.

 

2013 selected for Triumph 'Women In Making' competition - run online via 'Stylist Magazine'.

 

2013 collaborative exhibition, '100 Artists for World AIDS day' - The Brighton Dome, Brighton.

 

2013 Solo ‘showcase’, Art and Street Studio project with CrowdBnk UK, Kleinwort Benson, London.

 

2013 Solo ‘showcase’, Art & Street Studio project, Saatchi and Saatchi private pub ‘The Pregnant Man’, London.

 

2013 Solo Show / Event, The Mad Hatter Art Café, Brighton – 2 week event.

 

2013 Group Exhibition ‘Bench 2 Bench’, Curious Duke Gallery, London.

 

2013 Solo 'Meet the Artist' event: exhibition & live art. Debut Contemporary, Westbourne Grove, London.

 

2013, Group Exhibition, Debut Contemporary, January Private View, London.

 

2012 Group Exhibition, Debut Contemporary, December Private View, London.

 

2012 Group Exhibition, Debut Contemporary, November Private View, London.

 

2012 Group Exhibition, Debut Contemporary Autumn Private View, Nottinghill, London.

 

2012 Group Exhibition, Debut Contemporary ‘Stylish September’, Nottinghill, London.

 

2012, Group Exhibition, Showcase Cities ‘Buzzin’ @ Richmix, Bethnal Green, London.

 

2011, Group Exhibition, The Brunswick Festival, Brighton.

 

2007, Group Exhibition, Brighton University, Brighton.

 

2002, Group Exhibition ‘Unleashed’, The Gatehouse Gallery, Lincoln.