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Michelle Charles (b. London 1959) returned to the UK in 2001 having lived and worked in the United States since 1980. She now has a studio in London. Primarily a painter of bottles and glasses, she has had solo exhibitions at The New Museum, NY; The Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY; The Weatherspoon Museum Of Art, North Carolina; New York galleries Anthony Grant, and John Weber Gallery; Mobile Home Gallery, London; The Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston UK, the first Lodz Biennale in Poland; The Museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society; and Kettles Yard, Cambridge, UK. including Kettle's Yard, Cambridge and the Museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. She has received numerous awards for her work, most recently a third award from the Pollock Krasner Foundation (2015-2016), a Bryan Robertson Award (2011), and an Arts Council England Award (2008).