Charles Williams (born 16 March 1965) is a British artist. He is a founding member of the Stuckist art group and a member of the

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Charles Williams was born in

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, USA, and raised in England. He was educated at Kent College in Canterbury,

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and the Royal Academy, London, where in 1992 he won the top prize for painting as well as the prize for anatomical drawing. In 1996, he was elected to the

(NEAC) with whom he regularly exhibits in the

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in London. 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 UK and abroad, including the Threadneedle Prize for figurative painting, th
Marmite Prize
and the Hunting Prize. He is also a member of the RWS. In 1999, along with fellow artist Eamon Everall, he became one of the 12 original founder members of

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Culture 24. Retrieved 19 September 2009. and was a featured artist in the major show, ''

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'', at the

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, during the 2004

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. Williams' paintings use a narrative content to give a sense of the wider concerns of his subjects. His book, ''Basic Drawing'' (pub. 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.

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* Ed. Katherine Evans (2000), ''The Stuckists'', Victoria Press, * Ed. Frank Milner (2004), ''The Stuckists Punk Victorian'',

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www.unclecharles.co.uk

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