ARTIST STATEMENT

Charlotte Esposito’s practice explores the surface as a site of psychological tension, where material memory, emotional residue, and fragmentation converge. Working across painting and mixed media, her works function as accumulative fields - built through layering, gesture, erasure, and disruption - reflecting the instability of lived experience.

Her process navigates the space between control and release, where mark-making becomes both intuitive and reflective. Through acts of concealment, abrasion, and reconstruction, Esposito considers how personal and collective histories are embedded within material, and how these histories continually shift under pressure.

Rather than resolving into fixed narratives, the work remains open and unresolved. It holds ambiguity as a central condition, allowing for reading through erosion, transformation, and emotional instability. Positioned between abstraction and psychological figuration, the practice resists closure, instead occupying a space of ongoing negotiation between internal states and external forces.

ARTIST BIO 

Charlotte Esposito is a UK-based artist and co-founder of Brighton Women Artists. She has exhibited Innernationally since 2010 in solo and group exhibitions across London, the South East and beyond. She is currently represented by Acid Baby Studios and Brighton Women Artists.

Born in Brighton, UK, she studied Art at Brighton College, Design at Leeds Metropolitan University, and Fine Art Sculpture at the University of Lincoln, later completing a PGCE in Art & Design at the University of Brighton.

Her work has been exhibited widely, including shortlisted exhibitions for The Secret Art Prize, Pebeo Mixed Media Prize, and Women in Making (Stylist Magazine). She has exhibited digital works in New York and her work has been featured in Art Habens Magazine and PRIS MAG Italy. A commissioned work is held in the British Library via a University of Sussex publication.

Her work is held in public and private collections.

In 2025, Esposito co-founded Brighton Women Artists, an artist-led collective that has developed into a structured exhibiting platform that has included a resident gallery space at Sussex Innovation Centre and a continued exhibition programme. The collective supports a growing programme of collaborative projects featuring Brighton Women Artists across the UK.

PRESS QUOTE

“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, Art Habens Magazine

EXHIBITIONS AND SELECTED PROJECTS

2024 TO 2026 RECENT KEY WORKS

2026
Acid Baby Studios Eastbourne Voices Unbound Representation
Firepit Gallery London The Abstract Condition Solo 3 month exhibition
Fishing Quarter Gallery Brighton Frame of TENure BWA Collective Exhibition

2025
Sussex Innovation Centre Brighton CANcELLEed Adjust the Focus Curated collective exhibition BWA
New York Marriott Marquis Times Square The Alchemist Digital exhibition
Mid Street Lab Gallery Brighton Time is the Real Currency Solo exhibition Brighton Fringe

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS SELECTED

2024
Thomson Gallery ZUG Switzerland Group Exhibition
Andakulova Gallery Dubai Group Exhibition
Casa del Arte Palma Spain Group Exhibition
G Gallery New York Group Exhibition

DIGITAL NEW MEDIA EXHIBITIONS SELECTED

NFT NYC Showcase Hudson Yards New York 2022 to 2023
Stratosphere NFT NYC 2022
NFT Liverpool 2022
VR Exhibition and Auction Air Ambulance UK 2024

UK EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS SELECTED ARCHIVE

Flux Exhibition The Old Truman Brewery London 2016
Pebeo Mixed Media Prize Exhibition Menier Gallery and Strand Gallery London 2017 to 2018
Art Rooms International Art Fair London 2015
The Secret Art Prize Longlisted 2016
Jubilee Library Brighton 2017
Artists Open Houses Brighton selected years
Debut Contemporary Exhibitions London 2012 to 2013
Group exhibitions - including Brighton Dome Rich Mix London Curious Duke Gallery London