About Charlotte Smithson

Charlotte Smithson is an Artist, Designer and Creative Consultant living and working in Manchester, UK. 

Smithson’s work explores ecology and our relationships with nature, landscapes, one another and our personal interior worlds. She is also fascinated by negative space. She follows her ideas through installation, photography, stitch and writing. Charlotte has exhibited work across the UK, including commissions from the Garden Museum, RHS Chelsea, National Trust Sissinghurst, End of the Road festival, The Whitworth, University of Derby and Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

Charlotte Smithson’s installation Great Oaks from Little Acorns Grow is featured in the Nature Connection Handbook written by the Nature Connectedness Research Group and a report How art could save us from extinction by the Oak Project, commissioned by University of Derby and Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Great Oaks from little Acorns grow also featured as the Guardian’s Photos of the Day. Other press features include The Telegraph, Material Source, the Guardian, Gardens Illustrated, Hole and Corner, and SSAW Journal. 

She studied BA Hons Interactive Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University, where in 2004 she was tutored by conceptual artist and Interactive Arts alumni, Ryan Gander.

Artist residencies and talks

Research resident - Photographic Garden residency, Sustainable Darkroom, UK

Artist Talk - Land, Sea & Sky - Co-operative Creating - Land Art Collective, UK

Artist Talk - Photographic Garden Symposion - Sustainable Darkroom, UK

Artist in Residence - Cove Park, Argyll and Bute, UK

Artist in Resident - Silence Awareness Existence - Arteles Creative Centre, Haukijärvi Finland