Artist CV

B. 1988, Queenstown, Aotearoa New Zealand.

Charlotte Watson is a visual artist and writer. Her work expands across drawing, printmaking, ceramics and installation, often using the natural world to tell human stories. Her work sits at the edge of memory, myth and history. She is particularly interested in the stories that inhabit a place, and how place inhabits us.

Watson graduated from the University of Canterbury (Ōtautahi Christchurch, NZ) with a BFA in Sculpture in 2011 and is currently based in Narrm Melbourne.

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Solo Exhibitions

2023 Moral Stranger - Linden Project Space, St Kilda
2021 No Such Thing as Summer – City Art Depot
2021 Confluence – Tinning Street Presents
2019 The Small Hours – City Art Depot, Christchurch
2018 All Our Secrets are the Same - Bundoora Homestead, Melbourne
2017 Place of Return - City Art Depot, Christchurch
2016 Disquiet - Five Walls Projects, Melbourne
2015 Shadowside - Trocadero Art Space, Melbourne
2014 Quiver - GAFFA, Sydney
2012 Other Rooms - Chambers 241 Gallery, Christchurch
2011 Explication - SoFA Casting Room, Christchurch
        Exurbia - 183 Milton Street, Christchurch

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023 The Perfect Imperfect - Parallel Projects, Melbourne
Diecuts and Derivations - Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetū, Christchurch
Bayside Local - Bayside Gallery, Melbourne
2022 Separate & Silent, Divisions Gallery, Melbourne
TREE - Climarte Gallery, Melbourne
Softly, softly - with Shannon Williamson, City Art Depot
The Off Season – Assembly Point, Melbourne
Risographomania - Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville.
2021 Liminal Wunderlust - Fox Galleries, Melbourne
2019 Endangered Space - Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
2018  This Wild Song - Town Hall Gallery, Melbourne
2017  As Above, So Below - Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
2016  Element - The Alderman, Melbourne
         Drawing to an End - MARS Gallery, Melbourne
         Wonky - Tinning St Presents, Melbourne
         Laissez-faire - Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
2014  Converging Lines - Chambers 241 Gallery, Christchurch
         Mutual Store - Platform Gallery, Melbourne
         Blue Print - Brunswick Arts Space, Melbourne
         Domestos - Tinning Street Presents, Melbourne
2013  Public Good - Ramp Gallery, Hamilton
2012  Out of Place - Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetū, Christchurch

Collections

University of Canterbury, Christchurch, 
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetū
Private collections in NZ, Australia, USA, Germany and England

Prizes/Awards

2021 Lyn McCrea Drawing Prize (finalist) - Noosa
M16 Drawing Prize (finalist) - Canberra
2017/18/20  Counihan Commemorative Award (finalist) - Melbourne
2015  Parkin Drawing Prize (finalist)  - Wellington
2014  Incinerator Art Award (finalist) - Melbourne
2012  Select - SoFA Campus Gallery (winner) - Christchurch

Residencies

2023 Tasman Cottage, Eaglehawk Neck, Tasmania
2019 Arteles Creative Center, Finland
2016 Mountain Seas, Flinders Island, Tasmania

Writing

2021 Introduction for Fountain, for Marina Mason, Tinning Street Presents, Melbourne
2020 Fruitbats, The Concern Magazine, Issue 3 2020/2021, USA
How to Fix a Bowl, Dark Mountain, Issue 17, Spring 2020, The Dark Mountain Project, UK
2019 Hinterland for David McLeod at Tacit Galleries, Melbourne
Shadowland for The Dark Mountain Project, UK
Endangered Space for the Counihan Gallery
2018 Narratives-Realities: fictionalising the present & contaminating the fantastical wilderness. For Ara Dolatian at Crowther Contemporary, Melbourne.
2017 Scene with a Horse for 'Passenger on a Train' by Noel McKenna, Niagara Galleries Melbourne
Safety in Distance? with Christine McFetridge for HAMSTER Magazine, Physics Room, Christchurch

Curatorial

2021 - 2023 - Gallery & Studio Manager, Divisions Gallery Melbourne
2018 - 2021 Curator - Tinning Street Presents
2019 No Exit - Tinning St Presents, Melbourne (co-curated with Joshua Simpson)
2018 Pink Frost - Tinning St Presents, Melbourne
Vis à Vis - Five Walls, Melbourne

Coordination

2019 Initiator of the Black Finch Project
2016–20 Co-coordinator of the Monograph Reading Circle
2016/17/18 Chairperson for the Brunswick Studio Walk

Press & Media

Blundell, Sally. 'On a Roll', New Zealand Listener. Vol 236, No 3790, pp 42-43
Clift, Tom. ‘Hundreds Of Artists Are Fighting Adani With Heartbreaking Works Of Art’. 16 July 2019 on Junkee
Feeney, Warren 'Converging Lines', Chambers Art Gallery, Nov 2014
Feeney, Warren 'Christchurch Art Map being re-launched with Longest celebration' The Press, 12/6/17
Francis, Hannah. The Brunswick Studio Walk: Behind the Scenes with Melbourne's Makers. The Age & SMH, 23/2/17
Gardiner, Sue. 'Let's Talk about Abstraction' Arts News New Zealand. vol 32, pp 88-93
Holsworth, Mark, Brunswick Studio Walk, Black Mark Art Critic
Jones, Annalee. 'Arts Feature', Canta Magazine. Vol 8, 2/5/12, p18
Marsden, Jim. The Black-Throated Finch Project; (interview), Ernest Journal Online, October 2020
Milburn, Felicity. 'Rolling Maul', B.167 (Bulletin) Autumn, March-May 2012
Nothling, Lily, ’Adani opponents mail bird art to politicians in silent protest’. 17 July 2019 on ABC News
Otsing, Eva. ‘Confluence’ film, as part of the 19th Matsalu Nature Film Festival, September 2021.
Ralston, Cameron. 'Place of Return', City Art Depot Workshop, June 2017
Ralston, Cameron, ‘City Art Reader 13: Studio Talk - Charlotte Watson’, April 2019
The Island Review: The Small Hours. Featured 6 Nov, 2019