Charlie Mills
b. 1994, lives and works in London

charliemills224@gmail.com
@chardonnie


Education
MA Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, UoL (2018)
BA History of Art, Goldsmiths College, UoL (2016)
FdA Art & Design, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL (2013)

Curation
COMMUNION, Bold Tendencies, London (17 May - 14 September 2024)
The Unlimited Dream Company II
, Hannah Barry Gallery, London; organised with Hannah Barry Gallery (5 October 2023 - 15 December 2023)

Crisis, Bold Tendencies, London (19 May - 16 September 2023)
Gray Wielebinski: Exhibition, Selfridges, London, programmed with Bold Tendencies (6 January - 1 October 2023)
Maggie Dunlap & Allan Gardner: Fantasy Lands
, Collective Ending HQ, London (12 November - 4 December 2022)
Raw Nerves, Hannah Barry Gallery, London; organised with Hannah Barry Gallery (3 November 2022 - 14 January 2023)
Love
, Bold Tendencies, London (20 May - 19 September 2022)

Artist-Led Critical Exchange Programme, Funded by Arts Council England for Collective Ending (2022)
TONDAL,
directed and produced by Jack Scott and Louis-Jack Horton-Stephens, funded by Arts Council England (2022)
Tree and Leaf, Hannah Barry Gallery, London; organised with Hannah Barry Gallery (20 November 2021 - 22 January 2022)
Under Your Spell, Collective Ending HQ, London; co-organised with Georgia Stephenson (6 November - 4 December 2021)
Jesse Pollock: Sit Right Here and Watch the World Burn, Selfridges, London; programmed with Bold Tendencies (5 September - 17 October 2021)
Arcadia, Bold Tendencies, London (18 May - 18 September 2021)

TRANSGENESIS: A series of experiments by Agnes?, Harlesden High Street — Belsize Park, London; with The Orange Garden (30 April - 23 May 2021)
HOUSE §1, Collective Ending HQ, London; co-organised with Hector Campbell & Georgia Stephenson (31 October - 19 December 2020)
Bold 2020, Bold Tendencies, London; programmed with Bold Tendencies (30 July - 19 September 2020) A Land of Incomparable Beauty, Collective Ending HQ, London; co-organised with Alia Hamaoui & Byzantia Harlow (11 July - 22 August 2020)
Crowd, Hannah Barry Gallery, London; organised with Hannah Barry Gallery (20 February - 4 April 2020)
HQ Housewarming, Collective Ending HQ, London; co-organised with Hector Campbell & Georgia Stephenson (14 - 20 December 2019)ABSINTHE §3, Spit & Sawdust, London; co-organised with Billy Fraser & James Capper (7 - 15 September 2019)
Fiction
, Bold Tendencies, London; programmed with Bold Tendencies (30 May - 21 September 2019)
ABSINTHE §2, Spit & Sawdust, London; co-organised with Billy Fraser & James Capper (18 May - 17 August 2019)
ABSINTHE §1, Spit & Sawdust, London; co-organised with Billy Fraser & James Capper (23 February - 15 May 2019)
Slap Dash For No Cash, Art Academy Newington, London; co-organised with Lewis Henderson (7 - 21 September 2018)
Ecology, Bold Tendencies, London; programmed with Bold Tendencies (18 May - 22 September 2018)
The Unlimited Dream Company, Hannah Barry Gallery, London; co-organised with Ralph Hunter-Menzies (16 November 2017 - 13 January 2018)

Selected Press
Fantasy Lands: Maggie Dunlap and Allan Gardner’ in Ofluxo (online, 2022)
Louis-Jack & Jak Skot journey through a purgatorial nightclub in Tondal — Feature by Henry Bruce-Jones’ in FACT Magazine (online, 2022)
Bold Tendencies and the Summer of Love’ in Phillips (online, 2022)
Hottest emerging art exhibitions to see in London this weekend’ in The Arts Newspaper (online, 2021)

The Top 6 Outdoor Artworks to see this Summer’ in FAD Magazine (online, 2021)
TRANSGENESIS — Agnes? interviewed by Lara Monroe’ in Autre Magazine (online, 2021)
TRANSGENESISWhy the artist Agnes? is living inside an octopus for a month’ inVICE i-D (online, 2021)
TRANSGENESIS: Is this London’s most extreme art performance right now?’ in Time Out (May 2021)
TRANSGENESIS: A series of experiments by Agnes?’ in Ofluxo (online, 2021)
A Land of Incomparable Beauty — Review by Adam Heardman’ in Art Monthly, No. 439, pp. 28 – 29 (September 2020)
A Land of Incomparable Beauty — Review by Stella Botes’ in Delphian Magazine (online, 2020)
Bold New Voices in London’s Art Scene’ in Phillips Journal (online, 2020)
The Importance of Collectivism, Collaboration and Community’ in DATEAGLE Journal (online, 2020)
Crowd — Review by Maya Asha McDonald’ in ArteViste (online, 2020)
Crowd at Hannah Barry Gallery’ in émergent Magazine (online, 2020)
Bold Tendencies: Fiction’ in TANK Magazine (online, 2019)
Bold Tendencies: Fiction — Review by Louisa Buck’ in The Arts Newspaper (online, 2019)
Liz Glynn at Bold Tendencies — Review by Jessica Mairs’ in domus (online, 2019)
ABSINTHE — Review by Lara Monroe’ in Coeval Magazine (online, 2019)
Gallery Spotlight: Collective Ending’ in Delphian Magazine (online, 2019)
Career Q&A with Charlie Mills, Artist Liaison at Bold Tendencies’ in Palatine Newspaper (online, 2019)
Bold Tendencies: Ecology — Review by Claire Oberst’ in Alhaus Magazine (online, 2018)

The Unlimited Dream Company at Hannah Barry Gallery’ in Gallery Day (online, 2017)
The Unlimited Dream Company at Hannah Barry Gallery’ in Young Space (online, 2017)

Catalogue Essays
‘FOOD AT WAR: The Forbidden Journey’ in FOOD AT WAR (upcoming, London 2024) 
‘A Grotesque Realism: Carnival Culture and Coming of Age in South East England’ (upcoming, London 2024)
‘Rachel Hobkirk: Baby Talk and Softcore Surrealism’ in Rachel Hobkirk: Baby Talk (Milan, LUPO, 2023)
‘George Rouy’ in George Rouy: Selected Works 2017 - 2023 (Herne Bay: Tarmac Press, 2023)
‘Tom Cardew: A Strange Kind of Amnesia’ in Unchorus (London: Freelands Foundation, 2023)
‘Convulsive Beauty’ in Lucas Dupuy: Formless (London: Lichen Books, 2023)

‘Raving Without Nature’ in Elliot Fox: Idols Hands (London: Foolscap Editions, 2020)
‘Inside ‘Neptune’s Lair’: Drexciya, Dystopia and Afrofuturism’ in Bubble Chamber (Zürich: Gentrified Underground, 2019)
‘Dreaming on Foot’ in Henry Hudson: nothing sticks to nothing (London: Hannah Barry Gallery, 2019)
‘The Matter of Memory’ in Simon Linington: La La Land (London: William Bennington Gallery, 2019)
‘Metal: a Life’ in James Balmforth: CASS Sculpture Park (unpublished, 2018)
‘Technological Disobedience’ in Slap Dash for No Cash (London: Elam Publishing, 2018)
‘The Precarity of Desire’ in George Rouy: Squeeze Hard Enough It Might Just Pop! (London: Hannah Barry Gallery, 2018)

Exhibition Texts
Lucas Dupuy: Unison (Incubator, London, 2023)
Rafał Zajko: Clocking Off
(QUEERCIRCLE, London, 2023)

The Unlimited Dream Company II (Hannah Barry Gallery, London, 2023)
Crisis
(Bold Tendencies, London, 2023)
Spring Without End
(Hannah Barry Gallery, London, 2023)
Thom Trojanowksi: Glade
(Brooke Bennington, London, 2023)
Vilte Fuller: Sleeper Agent
(Superzoom, Paris, 2023)

Maggie Dunlap & Allan Gardner: Fantasy Lands (Collective Ending, London, 2022)
Raw Nerves 
(Hannah Barry Gallery, London, 2022)
Sholto Blissett: Ship of Fools
(Hannah Barry Gallery, London, 2022)

Love (Bold Tendencies, London, 2022)
Natalia González Martín: A change (would do you good)
(Hannah Barry Gallery, London, 2022)
Harley Weir: Sins of a daughter
(Hannah Barry Gallery, London, 2022)
Stevie Dix
(Journal Gallery, New York, 2022)
Danny Fox & Kingsley Ifill: HOLY ISLAND
(Hannah Barry Gallery, London, 2022)
Bobby Dowler: Roadworks
(Hannah Barry Gallery, London, 2022)

Tree and Leaf (Hannah Barry Gallery, London, 2021)
Elsa Rouy: A Demon in a Sundress (Guts Gallery, London, 2021)
Being Here curated by Jeanette Gunnerson (Kupfer Projects, London, 2021)
Under Your Spell
(Collective Ending, London, 2021)
Kate Dunn: The Tabernacle - Welcome to Pharmakon (TJ Boulting, London 2021)
Felix Treadwell: Buff Titan (L21 Gallery S’Escorxador, Palma De Mallorca, 2021, trans. Spanish)
PROUDICK: Today but not today
(Hannah Barry Gallery, London, 2021)

Stevie Dix: Magnesium (Hannah Barry Gallery, London, 2021)
Davinia-Ann Robinson & Natalia González Martín: I Am Unsure As To If I Am Still Alive (Quench Gallery, Margate, 2021)
Christopher Hartmann: In and out of touch
(Hannah Barry Gallery, London, 2021)
Arcadia (Bold Tendencies, London 2021)
TRANSGENESIS: A series of experiements by Agnes? (The Orange Garden, London, 2021)
Marie Jacotey: Don’t you worry honey (Hannah Barry Gallery, London, 2021)
Mohammed Qasim Ashfaq: INTERVALS (Hannah Barry Gallery, London, 2021)
Mohammed Qasim Ashfaq: VOLUME
(Hannah Barry Gallery, London, 2021)
George Rouy: Clot (Hannah Barry Gallery, London, 2020)
Marie Jacotey: Blue Fear (Hannah Barry Gallery, London, 2020)
Crowd
(Hannah Barry Gallery, London, 2020)
A Land of Incomparable Beauty (Collective Ending, London, 2020)
Lydia Blakeley: Looks like you’ve reached the end (Hannah Barry Gallery, London, 2020)
Fiction (Bold Tendencies, London, 2020)
Alia Hamaoui: Springboard (Camberwell College of Arts, London, 2019)
James Capper: WAYS TO MAKE A SHIP WALK (Hannah Barry Gallery, London, 2019)
ABSINTHE (Collective Ending, London, 2019)
Ecology (Bold Tendencies, London, 2018)

Felix Treadwell & Lewis Henderson: Floored (Camberwell College of Arts, London, 2018)
The Unlimited Dream Company (Hannah Barry Gallery, London, 2017)
Thomas Greig & Lewis Henderson: Any More? (Limbo Limbo, London, 2017)
Lewis Henderson: Veveo, Fuck You (B.A.E.S., London, 2016)

Writing (print)
‘Interview: Natalia González Martín’ in A change (would do you good) (London: Hannah Barry Gallery, 2022)
‘Interview: Tom Burr’ in émergent Magazine (Spring 2022)

‘Foraging, Ritual and Primitve Accumulation’ in Solstice Spectrum (London: Collective Ending, 2021)
‘Features: Georgia Stephenson, Allan Gardner, Jesse Pollock, Jane Hayes Greenwood’ in Yew! Magazine (Summer 2021) 

‘Beyond the Veil’ in HIX Magazine (Summer 2019)
‘Editorial: Vejdi Rashidov’ in Saatchi Art & Music Magazine (Summer 2018)
‘HIX Award Feature: Sam Bailey’ in HIX Magazine (Summer 2018)
‘Rave as Ecology: Plugging in’ in Being in the Body (London: The School of the Damned, 2018)
‘Review: Gullet at Cell Project Space’ in Saatchi Art & Music Magazine (Spring 2018)
‘AucArt Interview: Natasha Arselan’ in Saatchi Art & Music Magazine (Spring 2018)

Writing (online)
‘Interview: Ry David Bradley’ in Floorr Magazine (Issue 29, 2022)
‘Interview: Sholto Blissett’ in Floorr Magazine (Issue 29, 2022)
‘Interview: Gray Wielebinski’ in Floorr Magazine (Issue 29, 2022)
‘Interview: Stevie Dix’ in Floorr Magazine (Issue 29, 2022)
‘Interview: Rafał Zajko’ in Floorr Magazine (Issue 28, 2022)
‘Interview: Allan Gardner’ in Floorr Magazine (Issue 28, 2022)
‘Interview: Hannah Lim’ in Floorr Magazine (Issue 28, 2022)
‘Interview: Frances Drayson’ in Floorr Magazine (Issue 28, 2022)
‘Interview: Vilte Fuller’ in Floorr Magazine (Issue 28, 2022)

‘Interview: Alia Hamaoui’ in Young Artists in Conversation (2021)
‘Interview: Evgen Copi Gorisek’ in Floorr Magazine (Issue 27, 2021)
‘Inside ‘Neptune’s Lair’: Drexciya, Dystopia and Afrofuturism’ in aroundart (2021, trans. Russian)
‘Interview: Rene Matic’ in Floorr Magazine (Issue 27, 2021)
‘Interview: Agnes?’ in Coeval Magazine (2021)
‘Interview: Ana Meisel, External Pages’ in Coeval Magazine (2021)
‘Interview: Elsa Rouy’ in Coeval Magazine (2021)
‘Slippage - The Post_Institute’ in ArteViste (2018)
‘Rave as Ecology: Plugging in’ in Berfrois Magazine (2018)
‘Femke Herregraven: How much of capitalism can we see from the moon?’ in Feral Horses (2017)
‘Review: Zhongguo 2185 at Sadie Coles HQ’ in Feral Horses (2017)
‘Jenna Sutela: Becoming-Other, Becoming-Slime’ in Feral Horses (2017)
‘Biometrics, Phenotypes and Hong Kong Cleanup’ in Feral Horses (2017)
‘How to Maximise your Aesthetic Capital: Artist Start Ups’ in Feral Horses (2017)
‘Ryoji Ikeda: An Experiment in the Sonic Aesthetics of Data’ in Feral Horses (2017)
‘Interview: Juan Bolivar on Doppelgänger at Thames Side Studios’ in South London Art Map Magazine (2015)
‘Feature: Footfall Art’ in South London Art Map Magazine (2015)
‘Interview: Susan Collis’ in nu magazine (2014)
‘Interview: Joe Dennis on Asylum Projects’ in South London Art Map Magazine (2014)

Publications
Editor & Publisher, ABSINTHE §2 (London: Kronos Publishing, 2019
Editor & Publisher, ABSINTHE §1 (London: Kronos Publishing, 2019)
Editor, Henry Hudson: nothing sticks to nothing (London: Hannah Barry Gallery, 2019)
Editor & Publisher, Slap Dash for No Cash (London: Elam Publishing, 2018)
Editor, George Rouy: Squeeze Hard Enough It Might Just Pop! (London: Hannah Barry Gallery, 2018)

Talks
‘Southbank Centre Creative Careers Day: Art and Art Galleries’, panel discussion hosted by Scott Ramsay-Kyle, Southbank Centre, London (18 January 2020)
Monthly Feature on ‘The Silver Stream’, hosted by Byzantia Harlow on Soho Radio (February - August 2020)
‘A Land of Incomparable Beauty’, guest speaker on ‘The Silver Stream’, hosted by Byzantia Harlow on Soho Radio (7 July 2020) ‘Collective Ending’, guest speaker on ‘The Silver Stream’, hosted by Byzantia Harlow on Soho Radio (13 January 2020)
‘Interview: Charlie Mills’, on Delphian Gallery Podcast (28 October 2020)
‘The Artist Led’, guest speaker on ‘The Monthly Howl’ hosted by Byzantia Harlow on Soho Radio (11 July 2019)
‘Future Park Special’, guest speaker and panel discussion hosted by Jon Kipps, Chakwell Hall, Southend-on-Sea (13 June 2019)
‘ABSINTHE’, guest speaker on ‘The Monthly Howl’ hosted by Byzantia Harlow on Soho Radio (14 March 2019)

Residencies 
The New St. Ives School Residency, Zennor, Cornwall, UK; organised by Collective Ending (16 - 22 June 2021)
Absent Minded Residency Programme, Mas Mazieres, Gaillac, FR; organised by Collective Ending (3 - 10 June 2019) 



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