Biography

Charlotte has written widely on contemporary art, architecture, design and
art history for specialist art magazines, newspapers and exhibition catalogues
since 1995. She has written over ten books including Picturing People and
Painting People (both Thames & Hudson) and monographs on Rachel Whiteread (Tate Publishing), Jan Vanriet (Lannoo), Karin Hannsen (Lannoo) and Simon Henwood (Stephane Simoens Editions). She has also written two art books for children, published under the name Charlie Ayres, titled Lives of the Great Artists and The Story of the World's Greatest Paintings (both Thames & Hudson).
She is currently researching synaesthesia and the history of perception for
a forthcoming book.

Charlotte is a regular guest on BBC arts programmes such as Front Row,
Free Thinking and Saturday Review. She was a judge on the BBC2 art series Show Me the Monet, (series 1 and 2). She was a judge for the 2009 BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery and has been a selector for many exhibitions including the Jerwood Sculpture Prize, the Jerwood Drawing Prize and Deptford X.
 
Charlotte studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art and Sotheby’s Institute in London and completed her PhD in nineteenth-century travel photography at the University of Sussex and National Maritime Museum (AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award).

She worked as an editor prior to writing full-time, and was the arts editor of
the Independent on Sunday and editor of Art Review, the V&A Magazine and
Art Quarterly.

Charlotte Mullins can be contacted by LinkedIn, Twitter or by email:
[email protected]