{"id":49960,"date":"2022-11-18T15:53:33","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T15:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/?p=49960"},"modified":"2022-12-10T19:52:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T19:52:17","slug":"taking-a-fresh-look-at-the-60s-pop-art-with-charlotte-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/taking-a-fresh-look-at-the-60s-pop-art-with-charlotte-rose\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking a fresh look at the 60s pop art with Charlotte Rose"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Yesterday evening in Brick Lane, I had the pleasure of talking to Charlotte Rose, a new pop art artist that you should keep your eye on. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The young Londoner, who is also a model, is making her way throughout the industry as a self-taught artist with her captivating, bright and punchy paintings.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-tiktok wp-block-embed-tiktok\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@charlotterose.art\/video\/7157305557123157253\" data-video-id=\"7157305557123157253\" data-embed-from=\"oembed\" style=\"max-width:605px; min-width:325px;\"> <section> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@charlotterose.art\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@charlotterose.art?refer=embed\">@charlotterose.art<\/a> <p>Gold leaf is so much fun to work with \ud83d\udcb0 <\/p> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c Frontier Psychiatrist - The Avalanches\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/Frontier-Psychiatrist-6751217447363168258?refer=embed\">\u266c Frontier Psychiatrist &#8211; The Avalanches<\/a> <\/section> <\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, some of her paintings are being shown at the<strong> <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/entergallery.com\/blogs\/news\/enter-gallery-s-london-pop-up\"><strong>Enter Gallery\u2019s pop up<\/strong><\/a><strong>, which is going to be showcasing the work of a variety of artists from the 17th to the 27th of November.<\/strong> The gallery has 30 years of experience and always looks forward to conveying inclusivity, warmth and a sincere appreciation for art within all of their artists. You can discover more artworks and artists throughout their <a href=\"https:\/\/entergallery.com\/\">online gallery<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"771\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2022\/11\/IMG_8373-771x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49983\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2022\/11\/IMG_8373-771x1024.jpg 771w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2022\/11\/IMG_8373-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2022\/11\/IMG_8373-768x1020.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2022\/11\/IMG_8373-1156x1536.jpg 1156w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2022\/11\/IMG_8373-1542x2048.jpg 1542w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2022\/11\/IMG_8373-scaled.jpg 1927w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><figcaption>13 Stripes by Charlotte Rose<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>What has led you to be here today, exhibiting your work at the Enter Gallery? <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Enter Gallery looks after a lot of my prints, so my work is a part of this kind of pop up. But about two years ago I had my first ever solo exhibition which I self funded and did everything myself. Then I had my second one a year ago and that one was also a solo show, but Enter Gallery had helped me with it. And then this one is a collection of a lot of their artists so it\u2019s a group show.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>When did you decide to sell your art?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So that was probably just after lockdown. During lockdown I created my first body of work and at the end of it, when everything opened up, I did my first exhibition, so that was kind of when I started selling I guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>How would you define your style?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I definitely call it pop art, I think it\u2019s quite satirical and lighthearted. I\u2019m massively inspired by the 1960s branding and fashion as well, so I love all of the vintage branding, cigarette branding\u2026 But I also do like oil branding and candy branding\u2026 A lot of vintage branding basically.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>And how or where do you get your inspiration from?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m massively inspired by Andy Warhol, obviously, because I think that he was the star of the pop up era. I\u2019m also very inspired by Harland Miller, he\u2019s a modern pop art artist too. He does all of the Penguin books covers, they\u2019re quite famous. And asides from that, I love bright colours, electric colours, anything that is quite punchy as well.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2022\/11\/IMG_8374-1024x731.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49988\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2022\/11\/IMG_8374-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2022\/11\/IMG_8374-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2022\/11\/IMG_8374-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2022\/11\/IMG_8374-1536x1097.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2022\/11\/IMG_8374.jpg 1605w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Love Hurts by Charlotte Rose<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>What\u2019s the message behind your art?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My first exhibition was called \u2018I Quit Last Week\u2019, so during lockdown I quit cigarettes and that\u2019s how I started doing the cigarette boxes but I found that a lot of people felt the nostalgia, they took away the cigarette branding in the UK, and I think that people were quite nostalgic about seeing the branding. And I&#8217;m very interested about how cigarette brands sold this dream, for example with Marlboro they were like &#8220;if you smoke this brand you could be like the cowboys&#8221; and the packaging is quite glamorous. So I was always interested in how the branding took something that was quite poisonous and bad for you and sold it to you in this beautiful, bold-wrapped little package.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>How do you think that your art engages with the present moment?&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s interesting\u2026 I love anarchy and I love punk and I love saying no to capitalist society and pushing that, so I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s quite present but for me, that\u2019s the message that I\u2019m trying to put across.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>What would you say to someone who wants to start commissioning their work or showing it in a gallery?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think that you have to be brave with it. I know a lot of artists who are really talented but they\u2019re very shy about putting their work out there, so I would say make the artwork, and show it, and use Instagram and social media to promote it, because it\u2019s such an amazing tool. And yeah, just don\u2019t be shy, just go for it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-tiktok wp-block-embed-tiktok\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@charlotterose.art\/video\/7158115568556543238\" data-video-id=\"7158115568556543238\" data-embed-from=\"oembed\" style=\"max-width:605px; min-width:325px;\"> <section> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@charlotterose.art\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@charlotterose.art?refer=embed\">@charlotterose.art<\/a> <p>Two new paintings <a title=\"artistsoftiktok\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/artistsoftiktok?refer=embed\">#artistsoftiktok<\/a> <\/p> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c original sound - Haley\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-7119983805703703342?refer=embed\">\u266c original sound &#8211; Haley<\/a> <\/section> <\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can see more of Charlotte\u2019s art in her Instagram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/char.lotteroseart\/\">@char.lotteroseart<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/char.lotterose\/\">@char.lotterose<\/a>, where she also shares her life as an artist, model, and digital creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Words: Argia Hernandez | Interviewee: Charlotte Rose |Subbing: Ashreya Jimi and Elitsa Maymareva | Images: Argia Hernandez<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday evening in Brick Lane, I had the pleasure of talking to Charlotte Rose, a new pop art artist that you should keep your eye on. 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