Charlotte Keates 于 1990 年出生在英国萨默塞特郡,并于康沃尔郡的法尔茅斯大学取得美术学士,目前居住与创作于根西。
Keates 的作品灵感源自室内设计、旅游、建筑结构,并将他们与自然界元素完美融合。树木穿过平坦的水泥,而视角在片状玻璃之中延展。这些现代休闲的画面让人感觉进入一个空置不久的空间,戏剧性地展现了静态,但同时也透过技法与艺术性暗示着人类活动及环境中的动态。
“我所画的室内环境是完全虚构的-我对建筑非常感兴趣,比如室内的某个角度或者空间结构。我不一定会在脑中建构出室内环境,而是从一个启发我的元素开始,让画面自行发展。有一种期待却又静止的感觉,彷佛是凝结于时间的某一刻,记住某个地点或物件的瞬间。我想表达的正是这种脆弱和不堪一击的感觉,就像是等待某件事情发生或者浮现。”
倘若如凯文.林区于《城市的意象》(1960)一书中所述,建筑物是“空间的建设”,是一种“时间的艺术”,那么 Keates 的作品则充满几何与梯形的意象,将许多的水泥建筑化为几何图形。Keates 的作品横跨不同领域,藉由“超越感官”以及更多“尚待发掘”的场景、角落、面向,观者将被无可言喻的恬静、宽敞的景象所震撼。
Charlotte Keates 自 2022 年起与亚洲艺术中心合作展出多次,2025 年起成为亚洲艺术中心代理艺术家,重要联展包括“Unseen Topographies: Tobe Kiu Sin Kan & Charlotte Keates”(2026,亚洲艺术中心,台北)、“心象/外相:国际当代绘画特展”(2025,朱铭美术馆,台北)、重要艺博会之参与包括 “Art Collaboration Kyoto”(2025,京都)。
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Internal Landscapes, Hermès London Flagship, London, UK
2024 Sound Bridges, Arusha Gallery, London, UK
2023 You Carry Me, Arusha Gallery, New York, USA
2022 Thick draws the dark, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
2021 A Constant Hum, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
2018 Grid Works, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
2017 Sojourn, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
2016 Exploiting Perspectives; a harmony in chaos, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Group Exhibitions (Selected)
2026 Unseen Topographies: Tobe Kiu Sin Kan & Charlotte Keates, Asia Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2025 Inner and Outer Worlds: International Contemporary Paintings Exhibition, Juming Museum, New Taipei, Taiwan
Art Central Hong Kong, Atelier Aki, Hong Kong (SAR), China
2024 West Bund Art & Design, Atelier Aki Shanghai, China
Cho! Cho Le!, Arusha Gallery, London, UK
Presenting: Charlotte Keates, Margaret R. Thompson and Frida Wannerberger, Arusha Gallery, London, UK
2023 Art Taipei, Asia Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
Tokyo Gendai, Asia Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
2022 Thick Draws the Dark, Arusha Gallery, Bruton, UK
Saudade: Charlotte Keates & Freya Douglas-Morris, Mestre Projects, Nassau, The Bahamas
ART021, Shanghai, China
Art Taipei, Asia Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
Narrative Minds, Asia Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
Masterpiece London, Arusha Gallery, London, UK
London Art Fair, Arusha Gallery, London, UK
2021 Just what is it...?, Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, UK
The Armory Show, Arusha Gallery, New York, USA
Safe as Milk, Arusha Gallery, London, UK
2019 PULSE Miami Contemporary Art Fair, Arusha Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
LA Summer, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
A Focus On Painting, Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London, UK
Columbia Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries, London, UK
Marie Curie "Garden of Light" Charity Installation, London, UK
"Art on the Mind" Charity Auction featuring Tracey Emin, Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor, Mayfair, London, UK
2018 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, UK
Lynn Painter Stainers Prize Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London, UK
Geometry of Space, The Porthminster Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall, UK
Form, Colour, Light, The Project Gallery, Arundel, West Sussex, UK
2017 Perspectives on Space, The Project Gallery, Arundel, West Sussex, UK
Alternatives Never Found, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Margaret Lovell Retrospective: 50 Years, The Porthminster Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall, UK
Summer Collective Exhibition, The Project Gallery, Arundel, West Sussex, UK
Small Scapes, The Project Gallery, Arundel, West Sussex, UK

