ABOUT
Artist Biography
Charlotte Mitchell is an emerging artist based in Leicestershire who has recently begun to pursue fine art full time. In 2024, she graduated from the University of Oxford where she read French and Italian, and was able to explore the overlap between literature and the visual arts within French culture. During her time at Oxford, she spent the academic year 2022-2023 at the Rome University of Fine Arts, where she developed her own art process combining Renaissance layering techniques with the digital age. She has recently completed an internship at the highly regarded Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, where she has continued to deepen her theoretical knowledge surrounding the arts alongside her artistic practice.
Artist Statement
My work explores the idea that self-perception is not a concept that is whole and unified, but is instead in a constant struggle between internal and external forces that render it almost unrecognisable. As a multimedia artist, I begin with short films of improvised movement and digitally manipulated compositions to investigate these themes. I then translate these explorations into oil paintings, building up translucent layers to evoke the blurred boundaries between binaries such as internal/external, subjective/objective and individual/collective. My most recent project ‘Tangled Threads: Clothing/Body/Self’ explores the relationship of clothing to the body, and to identity. Clothing occupies a unique space as a mediator between binaries (interior and exterior, self and other); this intermediary role is what lies at the core of my artistic exploration.
