Charlie Prodger

Charlie Prodger is a British artist who creates moving images, printed images, sculptures, and written work. Her practice delves into themes of queer identity, landscape, language, technology, and time.

Biography of Charlie Prodger

Charlie Prodger was born in 1974 in Bournemouth, UK. From 1997 to 2001, she studied Fine Art (Studio Practice and Contemporary Critical Theory) at Goldsmiths, University of London. She then pursued a Master’s in Fine Art at the Glasgow School of Art from 2008 to 2010. The artist also participated in a 4-month MFA exchange program at CalArts (2009-2010).

Prodger won the Turner Prize in 2018 and represented Scotland at the 2019 Venice Biennale. She also received the Paul Hamlyn Award in 2017 and the Margaret Tait Award in 2014. Currently, she is a 2023–24 Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, US.

Her recent solo exhibitions include "The Offering Formula" at Secession in Vienna (2023), "BRIDGIT" at CAST in Cornwall (2023), "Blanks and Preforms" at Kunst Museum Winterthur (2021), and "Colon Hyphen Asterix" at Hollybush Gardens in London (2018).

Prodger's work has been featured at numerous film festivals, including the London Film Festival, New York Film Festival, and Toronto International Film Festival. 

Currently, the artist lives and works in Glasgow, UK.

Charlie Prodger's Famous Works

The artist has produced various works, including single-channel videos, installations, video sculptures , sculptures, and wall works. 

"SaF05" (2019) is the final installment in a trilogy of videos that began with "Stoneymollan Trail" (2015), commissioned for the Margaret Tait Award, and continued with the Turner Prize-winning "BRIDGIT" (2016). This autobiographical series explores the accumulation of affinities, desires, and losses that shape the self as it progresses through time. SaF05 draws on diverse sources—archival, scientific, and diaristic—and weaves together footage from various geographical locations.

Her installation "Northern Dancer" (2014) examines the video monitor as both a blank, interchangeable vessel for delivering content and a distinct object with its own design history, social context, and relationship to the human body. At the heart of this exploration is the concept of the "version," where an entity generates a mutation of itself.

"Sophie With Sheets" (2010) is a series of four photographic prints created during Prodger's time at CalArts. While immersed in the 16mm film darkrooms, taking semiotics classes, and exploring the reproductive properties of Xerox machines, Prodger produced this series. "Sophie With Sheets" features images within images: monochrome 35mm slide film captures a woman's hands unfolding four photocopied sheets discovered in an empty CalArts classroom.