Charlotte Edey is a British artist based in London. Edey’s work unravels issues of selfhood and the politics of embodiment through a process of world-building by way of weaving, embroidery, beadwork and drawing. The language of drawing is translated through her textile practice. Mark-making and gesture are explored through extensive hand-embroidery and beading on tapestry, relating thread, line and surface. Edey also employs found objects and artist frames as narrative devices to blur the boundary between the real and the represented, forming portals to slippery, otherworlds that reframe notions on femininity, the domestic and the interior.
Recently featured as one of the 2023 Artsy ‘Artists On Our Radar,’ her work has also been featured by The New York Times, Financial Times, Autre, Artnet, Elephant, British Vogue, Metal Magazine, Dazed and Elle. Artist commissions include: Apple; Miu Miu; The New Yorker; and The New York Times.
Edey’s solo and duo exhibitions include: ‘Thin Places, Ginny on Frederick,’ Frieze London, UK (2024); ‘All Words Are Written In Water,’ Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles CA (2024); ‘The Inexpressible Is Contained,’ Sea View, Los Angeles, CA (2023); ‘framework,’ Ginny on Frederick, London, UK (2023); and ‘Stillwater,’ Robert’s Gallery, Glasgow, UK (2022).
Her group exhibitions include: ‘Behind the Bedroom Door,’ James Cohan, New York NY (2025); ‘little tree,’ Ginny on Frederick, London, UK (2024); ‘Double Threshold,’ Winter Street Gallery, Edgartown MA (2024); ‘Drawing Biennial,’ Drawing Room, London, UK (2024); ‘Reading Stones,’ Linseed Projects, Shanghai, China (2023); ‘Body Poetics,’ Giant Art Gallery, Bournemouth, UK (2023); and ‘Bloomberg New Contemporaries,’ South London Gallery, London, UK (2023).