BIOGRAPHY

Charlie Calder-Potts is a British artist based in UK. Her work looks at history and its repetitive nature; the value of our heritage and our similarities to previous generations and to each other. She is a mixed media artist working with aluminium, wasli, wood panel and vellum (calf skin); combining photography, painting and drawing. 

Charlie has had many notable awards, exhibitions and commissions both in the UK and abroad. Previous projects include her selection as an Official War Artist with the British Army in Afghanistan 2013/14, private commissions in Iraq in 2015 and Tajikistan in 2016, a collaborative project sponsored by The British Arts Council in Iran, 2017/18 and Russia 2018/19. In May 2021 she was awarded the QEST scholarship (Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust) for her project in Pakistan and in March 2023 she was awarded the Daler-Rowney Prize by the Royal Watercolour Society, London. She received the Daiwa Foundation Award for her 2024 project in Japan ‘Offerings from Nara’ and at the beginning of this year her first wallpaper mural ‘Lost Lands’ was released in collaboration with Zoffany .