Charlotte Humpston - Fibre Artist

***NEWS: During the forthcoming Venice Biennale in 2026 I will have several of my works exhibited during 3 two week long exhibitions at the Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, May, June and July 2026. Those paintings and videos will be posted here shortly.
Upcoming Solo Exhibitions - UK and Abroad
2027 Grace Cathedral San Francisco, Re: Formation wrapped columns, large scale version
late 2026 Gloucester Cathedral, Re: Formation, wrapped columns, large scale version
late 2026 Cathedral of St John the Divine New York, Re: Formation, wrapped columns, large scale version, with attendant performance
***NEWS:  Earth Pigment project: I've acquired some very special ochres and oxide colours (blood red hematite, i.e anhydrous ferric oxide) kindly sourced by archeologist and caver Vince Simmonds who's helping me to develop a deeper range of pigments that I process myself for a series of textiles to reflect the exterior and interior landscapes they're acquired from. Vince kindly gathered the latest samples from various locations within the Mendip Hills which I'm currently processing. Go here to see these more clearly
Below, previous work using earth pigments from non specific commercial sources - the new work is based upon locally available sources - click here for closer versions.
***NEWS: October 15th 2025, London I premiered a new collaborative work with Terry Flaxton at Frieze 2025 at the Arte Otel London: Oil Paintings and AI Abstractions 2025 One of my paintings provided the source material for a large scale projection in the picture to the right about 30 by 60 feet. The actual painting, Fields and Streams, below. Click here for the video version of my painting.
***NEWS: Having finished a run of Re:Formation at St Johns in Glastonbury, which ran from June 11th until 30th July 2025 - I invited cellist Emily Burridge to respond to my piece and the two pieces became Transformation. This video is witness to that event.
***NEWS: I finished a successful two weeks opening my studio during Somerset Art weeks in September. Due to the level of positive response to my research I am inspired to create much larger pieces on linen from earth pigments.
Upcoming Solo Exhibitions - UK and Abroad
2026 Grace Cathedral, Re: Formation wrapped columns, large Version, dates under discussion
2026 Gloucester Cathedral, Re: Formation, wrapped columns, large Version, dates under discussion
2026 Cathedral of St John the Divine New York, Re: Formation,, wrapped columns, large Version dates to be announced shortly
Solo Exhibitions - UK
2025 St John's Glastonbury, Re: Formation, wrapped columns, small version June 11th until July 2nd 2025
2025 Somerset 
​2024 - Solo Exhibition, Orchard Studios, SAW event, September
2023 - Solo exhibition, Heritage Courtyard Gallery Somerset
2023 - Solo Somerset Open Studios - fibre art & paintings.
2022 - Somerset Open Studios - fibre art & paintings
2021- Somerset Open Studios - fibre art & paintings
2020 -Somerset Open Studios - fibre art & paintings
2019 - Alfred Gillett Trust Somerset, 'Cradlebridge' Installation on the subject of grief - for International Woman's Day.
2018 - Red Brick Building Gallery Solo show Installation of 'Pods'
2017 - Alfred Gillett Trust Somerset Site specific installation ‘Golden Bough’ (with screening of to 'Stand and Stare')
2014 - Solo Exhibition at Centre Space, Bristol. Seven pieces of Fibre Art & Video/Textile installations- 'Moving Paintings'
Upcoming Group Exhibitions
2026 Venice Bienalle For three months during the Venice Biennale I will have several of my works exhibited during three two week long exhibitions at the Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, May, June and July 2026. 

Past Group Exhibitions
2025​ Heritage Courtyard, Gallery Wells, December 
2024  Group show SMART Somerset
2022 Venice, (with Terry Flaxton RWA, Lucy Williams)
2021 ACE arts Somerton, 'Fifty Bees': ACE Group show
2019 - ‘Reformation’ Exhibition  at Bishop’s Palace, Wells. Installation ‘Golden Exodus’ Fibre Sculptures
​2019 ACE  Somerton Dove Arts Printmakers & Calligraphy, Circle of Trees, Artists Books, Curated by Bron Bradshaw RWA
​​2019  'Hanging by a Thread', Heritage Courtyard Wells
2018 Bath Reclamation -  Moving Paintings textile pieces in an exhibition with Terry Flaxton RWA
2018 Inside:Outside with Bron Bradshaw RWA, Terry Flaxton RWA, Emily Birridge Cellist (and 3 singers) see Books, Scrolls, Calligraphy, Performance for description
​2018 Heritage Courtyard Wells
2017 Heritage Courtyard Gallery Installation Fibre Sculptures  ‘Pods’​
​2016 Heritage Courtyard Gallery, ‘Exodus’ Fibre Art installation
2011 Somerset Arts Exhibition of paintings & textile artwork.
2010 Bristol 204 Imaginists
​2008, Imaginists, Venice
2011 Somerset Arts Exhibition of paintings & textile artwork.
2010 Bristol 204 Imaginists
​2008, Imaginists, Venice
For 2008 - 2016 see Collaborative Exhibitions which included working in the USA, China, Italy, Sweden, Malta & the UK
​Residencies
2016 Brisons Veor Residential Artist Studio, Cape Cornwall
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Awards
2019 ACE Award - Dove Arts commission for the Ogham Book 
​2011 Heritage Lottery Grant £38,000 for ‘Portraits of Somerset Working People’ 4 Exhibitions in Somerset -  and an experimental art documentary
1990 BAFTA nomination for 'Star Test'
1989 Edinburgh Fringe First Awards 'Frida and Diego'
1988 Edinburgh Fringe First Award 'Le Misanthrope'
1987 Edinburgh Fringe First Award 'The Duchess of Malfi'
Picture
Wrapping the orchard in Somerset
Collaborative Exhibitions
​My work in 2018 on Outside:Inside - a collaboration with other artists including Bronwen Bradshaw RWA, Lucy Williams, Steve Marshall, Emily Burridge & Terry Flaxton RWA, (which itself was a reformation of "The Imaginists")  included design and fabrication of a variety of elements for Outside:Inside and of creating an overall formulation and environment for the ideas of this group of artists, musicians and singers within a one hour format - including my creating many Ogham wall hangings for the live performance, pre-recorded video and video’s that were interacted with by the artists and musicians.

The Imaginists were formed in 2008 when we obtained a grant for £3200 to create a moving image work called Un Tempo Una Volta. The group included Bronwen Bradshaw RWA and Lucietta Williams our Welsh Venetian contact. With the grant money we hired cameras, boat and a variety of different equipment to each make a piece of work. This also paid for flights, accommodation and food and the location and projector for the final exhibition of the 'A portrait of the Working People of Cannaregio' and each of our artworks in Cannaregio with that community (and two subsequent exhibitions).

2019 Outside:Inside, an hour long performance with musicians, singers and two Academicians (Flaxton, Bradshaw)
2010, Imaginists Bristol at the 204 Gallery
2009, Imaginists, Phoenix in Glastonbury, Somerset 2009 and 
2008, Imaginists, Venice, Scarabocchio Graphic Studio, Cannaregio, Ponte degli Ormensini, Venice, Jewish Quarter
2005 An Army of Occupying Artists take over: The Hotel. In 2005, I and several other core artists organised the benevolent 'invasion' of a contemporary hotel. For one weekend in total 22 artist took over every room, bathroom, corridor and bar of the Ashley Court Hotel in Bristol. On that weekend, by word of mouth only, 2000 people came across two days..
2010 to 2017 Installs of In Other People's Skins OPS and the Intersection of Dreams, which I designed for Terry Flaxton: USA New York Cathedral -(St John the Design)  5 separate installs, Vasteras Cathedral, Sweden, Fabbrica del Vapore Milan, Italy, Malta, Valetta Contemporary Arts Centre, Xi'an China, Academy of Fine Art + 7 UK Cathedrals, as well as Bath Abbey & Southwell Minster 
Screenings of Moving Image Art Work
To Stand and Stare: A Somerset Landscape is a piece of collaborative work that went through a 3 year edit period where Terry Flaxton and I occasionally screened the work to refine the online version - you can now see the link above in blue.
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​2019 - Screened at Echo Park Film Centre, in Los Angeles
2018 - Screened at The Watershed, Bristol  
2017 - Screened in Somerset, Alfred Gillett Trust.