Angela Charles Comes Out As A Visually Impaired Artist in Her New Exhibition and Film - What Are You Looking At?

What Happens if you are a successful Artis and you find out that you are losing your sight, do you keep your sight loss a secret or shout about it?

Well RNIB Connect Radio’s Toby Davey has just caught up with one such artist, Angela Charles, who is telling the world about coming out as a Visually Impaired Artist in a new Arts Council funded exhibition ‘What Are You Looking At?’ and an accompanying documentary film.

The launch of the film and the press view of the exhibition takes place on World Sight Day, Thursday 14 October 2021 at OSR Projects, Church Street, West Coker, Somerset, BA22 9BD

Since graduating from Goldsmiths in 1989, Angela Charles (also known as Angela Blackwell) has had parallel careers as an award winning Curator and Visual Artist. From regular shows in St Ives to commissions for a high profile exhibition in Milan, Angela has achieved commercial success with her paintings drawn from her memories of place.  

During the summer of 2021 Angela has been using OSR Projects as a studio in advance of the exhibition this Autumn. A brighter palette and bolder mark making are features of a new series of paintings directly relating to previous work in style and form. These new works look at the elements of everyday life that disable her, her life growing up in a seaside town and her new challenges of coming out as a blind painter.

Angela’s exhibition ‘What Are You Looking At?’ runs at OSR Projects, West Coker, Somerset from Thursday to Sunday until 7 November and more details about the exhibition can be found on the OSR Projects website - https://osrprojects.co.uk

And to find out more about Angela and her work do visit her website - 

(Image shows Angela with her guide dog stood in front of a brick building with large white painted wooden doors and a blue notice board across the middle with 'What Are You Looking At?' written in white on a separate thin blue panel above)