Charlie Calder-Potts

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 2025 project in Japan‘Offerings from Nara’ last year and released her first wallpaper mural  ‘Lost Lands’ in collaboration with  Zoffany earlier this year.

NOTABLE EXHIBITIONS/AWARDS
2025 Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London
2025 Lost Lands Wallpaper Mural for Zoffany
2024 Christies Lates, Picasso exhibition, Christies, London
2024 Daiwa Foundation Award for ‘Offerings from Nara’ series, Japan
2023 Awarded the Daler-Rowney Prize, Royal Watercolour Society, Bankside Gallery, London
2023 Exhibition of the Royal Society of British Artists, Mall Galleries, London
2022 The world was all before them, Solo Exhibition, Fosse Gallery
2021 Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust Award, London for The world was all before them series
2021 Highly Commended Ruth Bouchard Prize
2020 Shortlisted Ashurst Art Prize, London
2020 Singing some endless song, Solo Exhibition, Fosse Gallery
2020 Derwent Art Prize Exhibition, London & Paris
2019 Group exhibition, Proud Central Gallery, London
2018 The Land I Stepped in, Solo Exhibition, Fosse Gallery
2018 Columbia Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries, London
2017 Awarded the AIDF grant by the British Arts Council. A collaboration in Iran with Persian poet Rosa Jamali
2017 Mapping Inspirations, vellum installation, Hereford Cathedral
2016 Selected for 164 Annual Open Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy of Art, Bristol
2016 Book of Kings, Solo Exhibition, Fosse Gallery
2015 Selected for NOA Award, Royal College, London
2015 Private commission in Erbil, Iraq
2014 Threadneedle Prize Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
2013 Solo Exhibition of Recent Work, Ikonhouse, Dubai
2013 Official War Artist for The British Army, Afghanistan