Aimee Charlotte

WAM Residency

I decided to do a month-long online artists residency. It went as well as could be expected – here are my thoughts on the final day! ‘Working-class, Artist, Mother’ – Feels quite impossible.‘Artist’ is a hard thing to do anyway, I won’t elaborate on that. It’s also well documented that the numbers of working-class peopleContinue reading “WAM Residency”

MotherOther Artist Talk

I was asked (I volunteered) to give a talk at the most recent Mother Other artist networking event – held in Middlesbrough. It was an event for artists who are also parents, and I recently had a baby – this is relevant context. I wrote a talk called: ‘How to be Creative between the HoursContinue reading “MotherOther Artist Talk”

Virtually Art – Middlesbrough Art Weekender

As a navigator north studio holder, I was naturally obliged to take part in the group show ‘Cluster’ I was thinking about a few things: My art installation was simple – I simply painted a vase of flowers in traditional oil paints, except instead of painting the flowers, I painted the individual colour pixels, givingContinue reading “Virtually Art – Middlesbrough Art Weekender”

A fabulous return to Dog portraits

I like the positive attention I get from painting little doggies

I wake at 4am and start gathering madness

If you DID enjoy my post-it animation, then congrats. I bet you don’t get enough sleep.

Customs House Exhibition

My painting is on tour, and can be spotted at the South Shields Customs House summer exhibition. So that’s nice

Middlesbrough Art Weekender ‘22 CLUSTER

Our studio is full of flies, an exhibition update

Print it! Show Catalogue

Twice removed from reality

I saw the phrase “twice removed from reality” the same place that I get all my news and culture updates – on a meme. For poetry in particular, or art in general, Plato argues that art is twice removed from reality, because it’s a copy of an idea Art imitates idea and so it isContinue reading “Twice removed from reality”

Northern Gothic

As part of the Stockton Arcs series of projects (PART 2) celebrating northern artists, and the concept of Home – I created this gouache painting based on the theme of ‘Family’ I painted it using a 90s childhood photo of my brother and I as reference. It was taken in Scotland on Halloween. Our facesContinue reading “Northern Gothic”