Charles Avery

Untitled (Map), (2011) Paris

Charles Avery has been constructing a narrative in his work since 2004. Between fantasy and reality, The Islanders is a very particular universe he has created in which to gather his disparate ideas. His practice primarily involves drawing,...

Untitled (Waiters dancing with Itinerants, Onomatopoeia) 2012 Paris

Since 2005, Charles Avery has devoted his practice to the perpetual description of a fictional island. Replete with its own population and constantly shifting topography, Avery’s intricately conceived project amounts to an ever-expanding body of...

Charles Avery was born in 1973 in Oban, Isle of Mull, Scotland. He lives and works in London, UK.