Charles Avery's Studio

Charles Avery

The man can draw

We moved in to Artist Charles Avery studio space for a temporary production office & green room. Charles Avery recently moved into his portion of a new low-rise building in Homerton, east London, sharing two floors with three other artists. When they moved in a few years ago it was a concrete shell. They have since put in a rudimentary flight of stairs & an open-plan studio flooded with light. Under the stairs, there is a beautiful set of storage drawers that his assistant designed and constructed to organise all his studio detritus. As a student, he was kicked out of Central Saint Martins. Without going into specifics he says it was down to his attitude. "I had strong ideas and I wanted to draw and draw and draw. The tutors said, 'We want you to stop drawing because you know how to draw.' Drawing is not a masterable art”. Next door Neighbour to David Noonan, Charles’s wife made a historic vegan lunch on our shoot which we all appreciated which filled us with loads of energy for the rest of the shoot day.