Charlotte Keates was born in 1990 in Somerset, United Kingdom, and currently lives and works in Guernsey. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Falmouth University, a distinguished multi-arts institution located across the towns of Falmouth and Penryn in Cornwall.
Charlotte's work is inspired by interiors, travels, and architectural composition, in seamless communion with elements from the natural world. Trees push through flat concrete, while perspectives unfold in sheets of glass. These images of modernist leisure leave one with the feeling of having entered a space only recently vacated, dramatizing stillness without surrendering movement. These are environments that suggest, technically as well as artistically, indistinct human activity and motion.
"The interiors that I paint are entirely imagined – I am very interested in architecture; a certain angle or spatial construction within a room. I do not necessarily have a constructed interior in my head, I start with one element that has inspired me and let the painting unfold.
There is a sense of anticipation yet stillness, almost like a moment frozen in time, remembering the split second of a place or object. It is this fragility and vulnerability I want to convey, almost waiting for something to happen or even emerge."
If, as Kevin Lynch argues in his essay The Image of the City (1960), architecture is 'construction in space' and therefore a 'temporal art', then Keates's paintings, replete with geometric and trapezoidal imagery, are the artist fracticalizing the no-less concrete practice of the architect. Keates's work is interdisciplinary, meta- textual – serene, airy landscapes that shock the viewer with 'more than the eye can see, more than the ear can hear', evermore settings, corners and aspects 'waiting to be explored'.
Charlotte Keates has participated in multiple exhibitions and art fairs with Asia Art Center since 2022, and became formally represented by the gallery in 2025. Her group exhibitions include: Unseen Topographies: Tobe Kiu Sin Kan & Charlotte Keates (Asia Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan, 2026), Inner and Outer Worlds: International Contemporary Paintings Exhibition (Juming Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, 2025), and she has also participated in art fairs such as Art Collaboration Kyoto (Kyoto, Japan, 2025).
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