Photo by Bekky Calver
Charlotte Edey is a British artist (b.1992, Manchester) based in London. Edey’s multimedia works depict dreamlike worlds that explore architectures of the interior, both bodily and domestic. Edey combines pastel, embroidery, beadwork, stained glass, and woodworking to pull viewers through spatial and psychological scenes that are immersive and illusive. The artist creates transfixing hybrid surfaces that shimmer and shift with changing light, imbuing her compositions with a slippery, fragmentary quality. Magical realism is rearticulated as an aesthetic device to mine the uncanny similarities between ourselves and our built environment. Historically gendered mediums like embroidery and weaving become, in Edey’s hands, powerful vehicles for reconciling divisions between the metaphysical and material, the internal and external.
Recent solo and duo shows include Corner/Fold at James Cohan (2026), Thin Places at Frieze London for Ginny on Frederick (2024), All Words Are Written In Water at Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA (2024), The Inexpressible Is Contained at Sea View, Los Angeles, CA (2024). Recent group notable group exhibitions include As Above, So Below at FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY (2025), An Uncommon Thread at Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, UK, and Behind the Bedroom Door at James Cohan, New York, NY (2025).