Background
Charles Williams was born in Evanston, Illinois, United States of America, and raised in England.
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In 1996, he was elected to the New English Art Club (NEAC) with whom he regularly exhibits in the Mall Galleries in London. Williams" paintings use a narrative content to give a sense of the wider concerns of his subjects. His book, Basic Drawing (public Robert Hale), summing up his teaching methods, was published in September 2011, and the follow-up, "Basic Watercolour" was published in 2014.
WIlliams teaches in the Painting School of Canterbury Christchurch University Fine and Applied Art degree course in his native Canterbury.
Achievements
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He is a founder member of the Stuckist art group and a member of the New English Art Club. He was educated at Kent College in Canterbury, Maidstone College of Art and the Royal Academy, London, where in 1992 he won the top prize for painting as well as the prize for anatomical drawing. He has shown in London galleries since 1992, and in 2004 he had a solo exhibition at the Bakersfield Museum Of Art in California, as well as showing in many major competitive exhibitions in London, the United Kingdom and abroad, including the Threadneedle Prize for figurative painting, the Marmite Prize and the Hunting Prize. In 1999, along with fellow artist Eamon Everall, he became one of the 12 original founder members of Stuckism, the radical anti-conceptual art movement. Williams exhibited regularly with the Stuckists, was a joint winner of their Real Turner Prize 2002, and was a featured artist in the major show, The Stuckists Punk Victorian, at the Walker Art Gallery, during the 2004 Liverpool Biennial.
Membership
He is also a member of the RWS.
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British
Awards
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Threadneedle Prize; Turner Prize
The Turner Prize, named after the painter J. M. West. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist under the age of 50.; The Threadneedle Prize for painting and sculpture is an annual art prize, which showcases the best in contemporary painting and sculpture.The Turner Prize, named after the painter J. M. West. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist under the age of 50.; The Threadneedle Prize for painting and sculpture is an annual art prize, which showcases the best in contemporary painting and sculpture.