| Casey Charles is a Queensland based, contemporary realist artist working with oils on canvas.
His artwork hangs in numerous private art collections throughout Australia, including the main lobby of the Vogue-on-Broadbeach Luxury Apartments (Gold Coast), as well as public spaces including the Radium Institute at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital.
In 2024, he won first prize in the Sandgate Art Show. In 2023, he won both first prize and the people's choice award in the Qld Splash Exhibition, and people's choice award in the Royal Qld Art Society (RQAS) annual exhibition. The artist's work has been recognised with the highest award in numerous art exhibitions over the years, including the RQAS Annual Art Exhibition (on 4 occasions = 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2019), and the RNA (Royal National Association) Exhibition on six occasions.
His various awards also include winning the RQAS Abstract Painting Award in 2021, and the RSPCA Wild Creatures Award in 2020. He has recently been a finalist in the ClaytonUtz Art Prize, the Percival Portrait Prize, the Lethbridge Small Scale Art Award and the Qld Figurative Art Prize.
His initial training was at the Pir Tareen Art School in Brisbane.
Landscapes, portraits, still lifes and street scenes are Casey's prefered subjects – all in vivid colors, influenced by Vincent van Gogh, with Casey's distinctive style that emanate joy. His work is inspired by the people, places and colors from his travels.
Behind each works lies the feeling of an equally intriguing story. |
