CHARLOTTE ALLDIS
NAARM (Melbourne), Australia
Charlotte Alldis is an emerging contemporary Australian painter who lives on Wurundjeri Country.
Growing up on Wathaurong Country (Geelong) and then moving to Naarm (Melbourne) as a teenager, Charlotte's works radiate energy. Her paintings are playful, buoyant, technicolour scenes with a storytelling narrative using both figurative and abstract representations of expression.
Throughout her life Charlotte has always leveraged painting as a place to retreat to, a way of understanding, and a means of activating play wherever she landed. Charlotte's works are intertwined with qualities of her lived experiences and her imagination, and it is here we are invited into a fantasy realm that is distinguishable in her work.
Charlotte's work is held in various private collections both within Australia and internationally and has been commissioned for workshops, festivals, private collections, murals and commercial projects. Self-taught, Charlotte has exhibited five solo shows and several group shows across Australia in the past four years, including her first project, a curated group show, Between Painters. She has collaborated on two seasons for Kuwaii, and recently ran a workshop for the National Gallery of Victoria Kids Program.
Charlotte has completed her studies in Psychology and is currently completing her Masters degree at La Trobe University in Art Therapy.
Charlotte would like to acknowledge the land on which she lives, works and creates from, land that belongs to the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation. She recognises their continuing connection to land, water, art, language and community. Charlotte acknowledges that sovereignty has never been ceded.
