Oaktree & Tiger

Its happening! Our New Media Winner Maryam Hina Hasnain and her curator, Melanie Lenz will be showcasing their exhibition at the RichMix gallery space next week!
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'Liminal Spaces', is an upcoming exhibition traversing themes of trade, empire, migration, borders and citizenship, Hasnain’s art is an exploration of cultural exchanges and political constructs. These ideas are investigated through a multitude of mediums; from textile interventions, film projections, painting to soundscapes. Her work dismantles ideas of exotic troupes and employs cultural signifiers and stereotypes as a mode of satire and subversion.
This body of work contemplates ideas of hybrid spaces and liminality, the state of belonging and transitioning between two places or stages. Drawing on the histories of the textile trade and her own experiences of living across South and South East Asia and London, artworks such as Artist Statement critically and playfully reflects on the politics and presentation of artistic labour.
Hasnain examines the cross overs between materials, specifically the relationship between the digital and physical. ReOrientation ReWorked (2020) shifts from woven to digital to physical. It incorporates traditional textiles and painting visuals with glitch art aesthetic and shift shapes into a lenticular image which reimagines a digital textile. Weaving layered meanings within her work, Hasnain also combines found objects and fabricated ones. Fun Fact: The Ottoman Empire And Nintendo Existed At The Same Time (2020) explores the historic connections between textile making and computer graphics. The textile intervention acts as a means of unravelling nonlinear historical narratives and, together with the other works in the exhibition, prompts us to reconsider the relationship between images, objects and their material histories.

Maryam Hina Hasnain is a multi-disciplinary artist who lives and practices in Karachi, Pakistan.
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Melanie Lenz is a Curator of Digital Art at the V&A Museum, London.
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​More info on the RichMix website:

https://richmix.org.uk/events/an-exhibition-of-artworks-by-artist-maryam-hasnain-and-curator-melanie-lenz/

This is our Highly Commended artist Sueyon Yang and her curator Taniya Dharani.
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Sueyon Yang (b.1988, Seoul, Korea) obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts (2011) and Master of Fine Arts (2014) from the Seoul National University, Korea, specializing in Korean traditional painting. She obtained her second MFA at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2019). Whilst developing her career as an artist, she also worked as a researcher producing replicas of cultural heritages for national museums in Korea. From this background, she would like to explore new possibilities of enhancing perspectives and recreating traditional paintings by combining traditional materials and contemporary expressions.
She currently completed a DFA course in Korean traditional painting from Seoul National University. Sueyon resides and works in Seoul and Hong Kong where her artworks have been collected by well-known institutions such as the Seong-nam Art Bank, Incheon District Court, Seoul National University Hospital in Korea.
​[...more about Sueyon on the Emerging Artist Gallery Website]
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Having done her internship at the Aga Khan Academy-India’s art department, Taniya Dharani has gained considerable expertise in curating art shows of young aspiring artists as well as mentoring them in 2018. Presently she is a mentor of young-aspiring student artists of the Aga Khan Academy community, where she supports creative growth, encourages young artistic minds to follow their passion, promotes them as well as guides them throughout their creative journey.
Currently, Taniya Dharani is interning with Pandora- Art on Superyachts in London, England by Pandora Matherlees where she is acquiring key skills required to protect, preserve and handle fine art in international waters as well as supports the educational aspect of training the Chief Steward/Stewardess on super yachts.
She is also an independent curator, art mentor and art dealer who will soon graduate in MA Art Business from Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London.
Her versatile experience of having resided in Namibia, India as well as England has encouraged pluralistic nature to her working style.
Taniya Dharani wishes to continue with her passion for promoting exceptional talent, under-represented emerging artists and mentoring them to enhance their perspectives of the art world as well as supporting their own aesthetic journeys on her up-coming art platform.
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​Read more about their exhibition "Perpetual" on the Emerging Artist Gallery Website:

https://www.emergingartistgallery.com/perpetual---sueyon-yang.html

This is our Highly Commended artist Thomas Hjelm and his curator Niya Ruseva.
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​Thomas Hjelm (b. 1992) is a half-Swedish, London born and raised artist. His structural artworks combine the practices of Painting and Print. Hjelm has a Master’s degree from Royal College of Art, and a BA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art.
In 2021 he exhibited at and curated the London Grads Now 21 show at the Saatchi Gallery, he was shortlisted for the Ashurst Art Prize, and was awarded a residency with Roman Road Gallery in 2020. He has exhibited widely across London, including the Soho R***e Gallery, Cromwell Place, and the Southwark Park Gallery. ​
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​Niya Ruseva (b.1998) is an art historian from Bulgaria, currently based in London. Ruseva has a Master’s degree in Art Business from Sotheby’s Institute of Art, and a BA in History of Art from University College London.
In 2021, Ruseva started working for JD Malat Gallery, developed the education platform for Pandora Art Services, was a contributing writer for the Made In Bed Magazine, and participated in the Emerging Artists Project launched by the Ashurst Art Prize, where she met with Hjelm. ‘Hold Me Closer’ is the debut curation for Ruseva.
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​​Read more about their exhibition "Hold Me Closer" on the Emerging Artist Gallery Website:

https://www.emergingartistgallery.com/hold-me-closer---thomas-hjelm.html

This is our Highly Commended artist Thiago Sancho and his curator Anna Bondarenko.
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​Thiago Sancho (b.1984) is a self-taught visual artist of Brazilian origin. He started his career as a contemporary dancer and has performed with established dance companies in Brazil, France and Germany.
In 2017, Sancho injured his knee and had to take a long break, which became a pivotal point in his career. During the rehabilitation, Sancho started experimenting with various media. Recollecting childhood memories of helping in his father’s carpenter workshop, he intuitively started creating kinetic sculptures, thus, filling in the lack of dancing practice. With a professional background in contemporary dancing, Sancho’s sensuality and strong creative perception found an outlet in his visual expression. Having started with floating sculptures made of iron, copper, plaster, fabric, cold porcelain and resin, Thiago Sancho is proceeding with the development of his artistic practice by exploring new forms of expression.
Currently, Sancho is living and working between his home town, Nova Friburgo (Brazil) and Santiago (Chile). In 2021 he became a finalist for the DasArtes Prize 2021 (BR) and received a Highly Commended Mention in the Ashurst Emerging Prize 2021 (UK).
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​Anna Bondarenko is an art advisor and researcher.
Anna graduated from the University of St Andrews with an MA in Marketing, having spent 6 years with large international businesses as a marketing and communication manager, she has changed her carrier path to the art industry, and in 2018 she obtained MA in Art Business at Sotheby's Institute of Art in London.
Anna’s professional profile includes work at various leading art institutions, including a gallery in Moscow, an art dealing agency in London, and Peggy Guggenheim museum in Venice. She is advising emerging artists, curating and cataloguing London based Private Collection of Contemporary Art.
Now Anna lives in Luxembourg and is currently developing future projects.
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​​Read more about their exhibition "DIS EM BODY" on the Emerging Artist Gallery Website:

https://www.emergingartistgallery.com/disembody---thiago-sancho.html

This is our Highly Commended artist Margaret Scott and her curator Katie Lynch.
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​Maggie Scott creates art from the particularity of who she is: a black woman, a feminist, a daughter, a mother, an activist and a British textile artist.
Born in London, Scott graduated from St. Martin’s School of Art in 1976 with BA honours in Fashion Textiles and set up her first studio in London in 1980. Maggie became well-known for her sumptuously crafted felt textiles to wear. Her life as a textile artist had existed in parallel with her involvement in gender and race politics, but it was an experiment with a series of large, autobiographical textile pieces which allowed her to combine art an activism. Her first body of work Negotiations – black in a white majority culture led to a bursary award and a solo show at Leicester Museum in 2012 and ultimately her transition from the world of fashion to the world of fine art...
​[...more about Maggie on the Emerging Artist Gallery Website]
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​Katie Lynch is an Australian-British art advisor and curator who specialises in career development for emerging artists.
After starting her career at Sotheby’s Australia Katie moved from the secondary to the primary market founding Studio Art Advisory, a creative agency mentoring, supporting, and representing rising artists from across the world. Katie leads Studio Art from a remote town in Central Australia where she also manages the Artists of the Barkly collective, a group of Aboriginal artists working the remote Barkly region of outback Australia. Within her capacity as manager of the Artists of the Barkly collective Katie facilitates the career development of over forty artists working from studios across four remote communities.
Katie holds a BA in Art History and a MA in Art Business, her research specialities are Indigenous Australian art and funding for public arts.
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​Read more about their exhibition "Five Times More" on the Emerging Artist Gallery Website:

https://www.emergingartistgallery.com/five-times-more---margaret-scott.html

"​Perpetual"​ is an exhibition of works by Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize 2021 Highly Commended Sueyon Yang and curated by Taniya Dharani.
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'Perpetual' sets one’s eyes on the concept of the inescapable reality of existence: Life and death. Though humanity recognizes this unavoidable fate of the mortals, they are yet gravitating towards endeavoring to overcome death and its finite lives. The fear of death has led to the formation of myths and superstitions which aim to serve the humanistic desire for immortality.
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​Her exhibition is open until the 30th of March, to book a visit please email [email protected]
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​If you are interested in purchasing an artwork, head to the Emerging Artist Gallery website:

https://www.emergingartistgallery.com/perpetual---sueyon-yang.html

"Hold Me Closer"​ is an exhibition of works by Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize 2021 Highly Commended Thomas Hjelm and curated by Niya Ruseva.
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The exhibition ‘Hold Me Closer’ incorporates ‘the screen’ and its role in human connection and mass media. Distorted imagery, slogan-like texts and the distinct structural body of the artworks pull the viewer into the artist’s understanding of reality.
Hjelm uses a combination of modified printers, scanners and painterly techniques in the creation of his artworks. This synthesis is the perfect representation of the digital and physical worlds we occupy, balancing our existence within them. Drawing influence from the likes of Barbara Kruger, Robert Rauschenberg and Wade Guyton, Hjelm looks to manipulate these machines of mass marketing and create imagery referential to external spaces and ideologies. Translating his surroundings onto the emotively primed linen, Hjelm incorporates ‘the screen’ and questions concerning seductive communication and the aesthetic choices of mass media within physical viewership.
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​His exhibition is open until the 30th of March, to book a visit please email [email protected]
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​If you are interested in purchasing an artwork, head to the Emerging Artist Gallery website:

https://www.emergingartistgallery.com/hold-me-closer---thomas-hjelm.html

"DIS EM BODY"​ is an exhibition of two series by Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize 2021 Highly Commended Artist Thiago Sancho and curated by Anna Bondarenko.
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​As a professional theatrical dancer, Sancho perceives his most recent works through the prism of dramaturgy. For him, the body embodies a vessel that carries various characters with their fables of life and, at the same time, is in constant motion. The title of the exhibition per se represents a complex semantic game, as does the philosophical narrative behind the show and the artworks, sublimating the artist's reflections on the leading theme of Sancho's practice - the body and its movement, its transformations and in metamorphosis, while in motion, over its lifetime. The specially created body of work is marked by a shift from floating kinetic sculptures disembodied to static corporeality. Sancho's objects, nevertheless, are full of dynamism and create a unique visual language of a symbiotic interweaving of the surrealist fantasies of Morris Desmonds, the simplicity of Lucio Fontana's art povera ceramics.​
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​His exhibition is open until the 30th of March, to book a visit please email [email protected]
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​If you are interested in purchasing an artwork, head to the Emerging Artist Gallery website:

https://www.emergingartistgallery.com/disembody---thiago-sancho.html

This is "Five Times More", Highly Commended Artist Margaret Scott's solo show. Curated by Katie Lynch, this series of works depict the intimate relationship between mother and child, reflecting on both personal and collective experiences of pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood through her textile artworks.
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​"Five Times More" humanises the statistics published by MBRACE UK, illustrating abstract numbers with the faces of young healthy women. Tender works position the viewer as a vo**ur observing a private moment between mother and child; in some works a mother to be contemplates her swollen belly while in others she embraces her young child. The works can be read as a celebration of the bond between mother and child, yet they are shrouded in ambiguity, whether the fate of the subjects is real or imagined is unknown.
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​Her exhibition is open until the 30th of March, to book a visit please email [email protected]
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​If you are interested in purchasing an artwork, head to the Emerging Artist Gallery website:

https://www.emergingartistgallery.com/five-times-more---margaret-scott.html

Grete Hjorth- Johansen is the Choice Winner of the Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize 2021.
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​Featuring in her exhibition "Tartarus", these artworks are available to purchase from the Emerging Artist Gallery shop!​
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For Norwegian artist, Grete Hjorth-Johansen the forest represents a sanctuary: a place where worldly preoccupations are abandoned and nature ushers you into a space of magic, stillness and protection. Specifically, the tumult of 2020 brought Grete back again and again to the ancient woodlands of Epping Forest on the north-eastern outskirts of London. The dead stumps and twisted, split and hollow trees of this forest bear witness to the forestry practice of pollarding. Until the 1870’s the wood was cut continuously, exhausting the trees until sometimes only a hollow stem remained.

The series Tartarus began in calm moments of observation where Grete began to see the scarred trees and stumps like magnificent sculptures, mighty and proud but also alive with stories of pain and longing. Wanting to illuminate these arboreal personalities and the rich histories they reveal, she conceived an unusual and rather complicated process of using handheld torches and multiple exposures to create richly coloured composite photographs of individual trees.

The swirling legends conjured in a space so ancient led the artist to name the series after the place of torture and punishment in Greek mythology, also envisioning and titling each tree with the names of mythological characters. Alongside many others, most of the Titans and the fifty female Danaides were imprisoned in Tartarus. A photograph from the 2021 series Sanctum is also shown in the exhibition, revealing that the forest holds yet more magic and inspiration for Grete.
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​​​Please email [email protected] if you would like to enquire about a work.

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https://www.emergingartistgallery.com/topographies-of-fragility---ingrid-weyland.html

Grete's insight into her world of creativity:
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"​What I aim to explore is through my practice is finding drama and emotion in very mundane things like trees or pieces of fruit and vegetables or anything that might be otherwise overlooked. " - Grete Hjorth-Johansen
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​She also has a fun fact for us!
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"I am greatly inspired by nature. And by that, I mean the drama that you can find in nature. It was only when I saw the American photographer Ansel Adams who was exhibiting wok that I saw and realised that he could even take a picture of a rock that looked angry! And that was a real eyeopener for me." - Grete Hjorth-Johansen
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Grete's solo show "Tartarus" has been displayed at the Ashurst Emerging Artist Gallery and is exhibited online where you can view it on the emerging gallery website:

https://www.emergingartistgallery.com/topographies-of-fragility---ingrid-weyland.html

Welcome to our Winner Feature Series!
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​This is Grete Hjorth-Johansen the Choice Winner of the Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize 2021.
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​Grete Hjorth-Johansen is a London based Norwegian photographer, working on both commissioned and fine art projects. In 1999 Grete received her BA in Fine Art at the Southampton Solent University. Prior to this she studied Graphic Design at the Oppegård VG Skole in Norway. Grete has also taught photography and darkroom techniques at various colleges. In her practice, Grete bridges the gap between photographic and painterly aesthetics, using a vibrant colour palette of lighting to explore and describe the moods, emotions and atmospheres that she experiences in her environments.
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Grete's solo show "Tartarus" has been displayed at the Ashurst Emerging Artist Gallery and is exhibited online where you can view it on the emerging gallery website- link in bio.
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Ingrid Weyland is the Photography Winner of the Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize 2021.
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​Featuring in her exhibition "Topographies of Fragility", these artworks are available to purchase from the Emerging Artist Gallery shop!​
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The climate emergency is a pressing theme and many contemporary artists are using their practice to shine a light on the ill effects of our actions, with tangible urgency. In her ongoing series, Topographies of Fragility, Ingrid Weyland comments on the biggest issue of our times through a unique and original approach to image making. Having traversed the globe from southern Argentina to Greenland, her work revolves around her personal connection with Nature, where unspoiled, almost surreal, landscapes act as sanctuaries, offering silence, solitude and containment.

Weyland adopts a cunning strategy with Topographies of Fragility, experimenting with the materiality and vulnerability of the photographic medium itself. Initially vast, immaculate and timeless landscapes seduce the viewer to the image. Upon closer inspection, it is evident the artist has intervened by employing a simple yet effective technique whereby a copy of the image itself has been aggressively manipulated, destroyed and overlaid. There’s a surprising and subtle oscillation between the brutal tridimemsionality of the crumpled image, and the flat, undisturbed landscape behind it. The juxtaposition of majestic nature with its own ravaged counterpart, prompts a dramatic reminder of environmental degradation, alluding to the damage inflicted by humans, thus questioning our true relationship with the natural world.

It is said that a wrinkled piece of paper can never regain its original shape; the trace persists. In the same way, nature has been disrespectfully invaded and broken, and in some cases this may be irreversible.
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​​​Please email [email protected] if you would like to enquire about a work.

https://www.emergingartistgallery.com/topographies-of-fragility---ingrid-weyland.html

Ingrid's insight into her world of creativity:
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"​I am passionate about working with photography because it allows me to document the landscapes that interest me, places where I experience a special connection. Altering the materiality of the images enables me to explore the conflicting relationship between man and nature as well as the irreversible consequences of man’s activity. " - Ingrid Weyland
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​She also has a fun fact for us!
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"I am increasingly interested in the concept of Expanded Photography, where photography merges with other areas of the visual arts- such as collage or different types of manual interventions. Pure photography is no longer enough to translate my experiences and concerns." - Ingrid Weyland
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Ingrid's solo show "Topographies of Fragility" has been displayed at the Ashurst Emerging Artist Gallery and is exhibited online where you can view it on the emerging gallery website:

https://www.emergingartistgallery.com/topographies-of-fragility---ingrid-weyland.html

Welcome to our Winner Feature Series!
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​This is Ingrid Weyland the Photography Winner of the Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize 2021.
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​​Ingrid Weyland was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1969. Being part of a family of sculptors and architects,�she grew up among coloured pencils, art papers, blueprints, inks, and clay. Her passion for form, image, and composition arises from them, which led to her to study Graphic Design at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and set up her own practice. Later she decided to dedicate herself to learning photography, something she had always been passionate about, attending several workshops by Ana Sánchez Zinny, Angela Copello, Fabiana Barreda, Julieta Escardó, Juan Brath, Proyecto Imaginario, and Verónica Fieiras, amongst others.�Initially a portrait photographer, Ingrid now focuses on evocative landscapes expressing fragility of the natural environment.

In 2020 she was one of the winners of Decade of Change by 1854 British Journal of Photography, the Exposure Photo Festival in Calgary, and won the Ashurst Emerging Artist Photography Prize 2021. In 2021 she was a finalist in the Discovery Awards - Encontros da Imagem in Braga, in Fresh Klompching Gallery Exhibition (NY), and also won the Rhonda Wilson Award.
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Her work has been exhibited in cultural institutions and galleries in Argentina, London, Canada, New York, and Hong Kong: Arte Espacio (2016), Buenos Aires Photo International Fair with ASZ Gallery (2019-2020), Photo London Digital with ASZ Gallery (2020-2021), Exposure Photo Festival (2021), 1854 BJP Decade of Change Exhibition at The Climate Museum (2021), the Klompching Gallery Fresh 2021 Exhibition, and the Ashurst Emerging Artist Photography Prize Solo Exhibition (2021), among others.
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Ingrid's solo show "Topographies of Fragility" has been displayed at the Ashurst Emerging Artist Gallery and is exhibited online where you can view it on the emerging gallery website- link in bio:

https://www.emergingartistgallery.com/topographies-of-fragility---ingrid-weyland.html

Alexandra Harley is the Sculpture Winner of the Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize 2021.
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​Featuring in her exhibition "Moving : Still", these artworks are available to purchase from the Emerging Artist Gallery shop!​
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Her sculptures are abstract, seeking to convey a sense of movement through the physical interpretation of a brief and momentary fragment in time.

With an internal energy pulsing through the complex constructions, these sculptures evade a single analysis.

The positioning and the relationships of the elements define the movement of the sculpture.

​The space between the elements is significant and these airways that are created through the sculpture play a huge and physically active role in the sculpture.
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​​​Please email [email protected] if you would like to enquire about a work.

https://www.emergingartistgallery.com/movingstill---alexandra-harley.html

Alexandra's insight into her world of creativity:
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"​I try to endue my sculptures with a sense of movement. I almost want them to get up and dance around behind my back. Even though they are not kinetic sculptures, and they are very much stationary- this is an aspect that I am still working on and developing in my practice." - Alexandra Harley
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​She also has a fun fact for us!
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"Lady Diana turned down a game of dominos with me!" - Alexandra Harley
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​Alexandra's solo show "Moving : Still" has been displayed at the Ashurst Emerging Artist Gallery and is exhibited online where you can view it on the emerging gallery website:

https://www.emergingartistgallery.com/movingstill---alexandra-harley.html

Welcome to our Winner Feature Series!
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​This is Alexandra Harley the Sculpture Winner of the Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize 2021.
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​Alexandra Harley is a British sculptor best known for her immersive engagement with materials.
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She studied sculpture at Wimbledon School of Art, followed by the Advanced Course at St. Martins School of Art.

Her own teaching career is extensive, commencing with woodcarving in the Sculpture Department at City Lit in 1985 and over the years expanding into bronze, stone and life modelling.

She is inspired by the diverse physicalities of the materials she uses in her practice. Each material functions as both a starting point and a process, a core element and a guiding rhythm, through which she seeks to capture and elucidate fleeting moments.
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Alexandra's solo show "Moving : Still" has been displayed at the Ashurst Emerging Artist Gallery and is exhibited online where you can view it on the emerging gallery website:

https://www.emergingartistgallery.com/movingstill---alexandra-harley.html

Charles Inge is the Overall Winner of the Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize 2021.
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​Featuring in his exhibition "Spiritus Mundi", these artworks are available to purchase from the Emerging Artist Gallery shop!​
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The work of Charles Inge is replete with paradox: contradictory yet interrelated elements that appear rational and recognisable when considered in isolation but illogical when placed together. Self-contained, intermingling agglomerations of shape and form cross-contaminate in bell jars or in the form of larger explosive configurations. The push/pull between containment and the drive to escape or expand evokes our history-defining moment, Spiritus Mundi... the unique socio-cultural environment and outlook that defines the present. The bell jars, which form the core constituents of the exhibition speak to the anxiety and discombobulation that comes with quarantine restrictions. However, observing Inge’s canvases as simply a response to the pandemic would be an oversimplification and disservice to his practice.
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​​​Please email [email protected] if you would like to enquire about a work.
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https://www.emergingartistgallery.com/spiritus-mundi---charles-inge.html

Charles' insight into his world of creativity:
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​"I think of painting as a metaphor for life- there are things that you can control and some things you can’t. Therefore, chance plays a big part in my paintings. I like to throw my painting into chaos and then try and find some order and keep repeating that process- building up a history of marks. In the end I hope my paintings show a celebration of life, even tinged with a bit of sadness but I do try and find the beauty within the chaos." - Charles Inge

He also has a fun fact!
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"I live on the Isle of White, which means I am constantly surrounded by nature and that is my main inspiration. Every day I walk for 2-3 hours and I can’t help but absorb the natural world around me." - Charles Inge
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​​Charles' solo show "Spiritus Mundi" is currently on display at the Ashurst Emerging Artist Gallery. His works are also available for purchase, so if you are interested, head on over to the Emerging Artist Gallery website:

https://www.emergingartistgallery.com/spiritus-mundi---charles-inge.html

Welcome to our Winner Feature Series!
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​This is Charles Inge the Overall Winner of the Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize 2021.
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​Charles Inge (b.1961) is a British painter who lives and works in the Isle of Wight. After completing his BA in Fine Art at the Ruskin School of Fine Art, Oxford University in 1983, the artist was offered a place at the Royal College of Art which he turned down due to financial constraints. Over the next three decades, he worked in the advertising industry before returning to painting full time and giving it his full focus. Working in advertising had a subtle effect on his practice as a painter, encouraging an approach to the medium that strips the image to its essence and presents it on canvas. The industry also gave him the opportunity to collaborate with, source inspiration from, some of the finest artists, musicians, photographers and film directors in the world. Inge becoming a painter could hardly be considered a career change, he was always destined to become an artist.

Prior to the pandemic, the artist worked out of a studio in Soho, London which was unceremoniously demolished on short notice, forcing a relocation. Inge recently honed his skills at one of the most well-regarded artist-led painting programmes in London, the Turps Studio Programme 2017-19 and Turps Offsite 2019-20. Inge’s painting has been exhibited as part of the BP Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Society of Marine Artists, the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters. His painting has been featured in Vogue and is in the collection of Art UK. He is the recipient of the Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize, and Spiritus Mundi is his first solo exhibition.
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​Charles' solo show "Spiritus Mundi" is currently on display at the Ashurst Emerging Artist Gallery. His works are also available for purchase, so if you are interested, head on over to the Emerging Artist Gallery website:

https://www.emergingartistgallery.com/spiritus-mundi---charles-inge.html