Charlotte Oxenham is a graduate Fine Art student, studied at Staffordshire University in the UK (2016-2020). Her University practice mainly utilises painting and sculpture combined, also exploring photography and digital editing. The contextual factors of her practice usually involve personal experiences such as anxiety and insecurities. She includes these ideas because showcasing this concept in a visual artistic form would allow people that can relate to these situations be more understanding that they are not alone.
Outside of university, she creates pencil and painting studies that capture emotion and likeness in any image that focuses on people or surroundings. The key aspects of her practice are unique techniques within the studies and emotion due to expression and colour tones. She also creates art pieces in digital art and continues to progress with her realistic illustrations.
Exhibitions
MaccPride art & Photography Exhibition 2022, 4th-9th July 2022, Ropewalks, Macclesfield
Redemption Exhibition (graduate Degree Show), 18th-22nd September 2021, Astley Walk, Newcastle Town Centre
`A Stroll Around the North West, 11th August - 24th October 2021, eden Tearooms and Galleries, Wigan
Amalgamation, Level 4 and 5 end of Year Exhibition, 3rd-4th May 2019, Cadman Building, Staffordshire UniversityProsperity, 20th-22nd February 2019, Stoke Indoor Market, Stoke-on-Trent
Level 4 end of Year Exhibition, 20th-22nd April 2018, Cadman Building, Staffordshire University.
Graduates End of Year Exhibition, 2nd-5th June 2017, Staffordshire University.
Rituals, a Foundation course exhibition exploring the student’s different portrayals of rituals, 9th- 10th March 2017, UniCube, Staffordshire University.
Curatorial Experience
Veiling Landscapes, a group exhibition in first year of fine art displaying transparent sheets of different paintings of landscapes to combine the layers into one piece, also creating a journey through sounds, memories and trails, 20th-23rd February 2018, Cadman Building, Staffordshire University.
Prosperity, a pop-up exhibition in Stoke-on-Trent displaying mine and two other artists’ wildlife postcards with the aim to raise money for the Staffordshire Wildlife Trust. Our artwork explores portrait paintings of animals and natural landscapes, highlighting the true beauty of wildlife. 20th-22nd February 2019, Stoke Indoor Market, Stoke-on-Trent.
Competitions
Macclesfield Open Art Exhibition, a finalist (x2), colour pencil portrait of Marilyn Monroe, A3 (2015), oil painting of Prince, Michael Jackson, David Bowie and Freddie Mercury, A2 (2017)
The Buxton Spa Prize: a finalist, entry of an oil painting of a Buxton reservoir landscape, A2, 2017
Articles
Cheshire Life's Artist Of the Year (2014)
Cheshire Life's Faces and Places - Our Star Artist (July/August 2021)
Macclesfield Nub New - Macclesfield artist is commissioned by MTV (2022)
Macclesfield Express/cheshire Live - Charlotte Tiks right box to put MTV in picture (2022)
Staffs Alumni - Artwork goes viral (2022)
British Vogue - Issue February 2023 (2023)
Awards
Cheshire Life’s Artist of the year Junior Category, first place, portrait drawing of singer Beyoncé A4, 2014
Staffordshire University BA (Hons) Fine Art UnderGraduate Degree, 2020
Staffordshire university beinspired business start-up project, 2021