Charlie Sheppard

I try to use organically cracked tile pieces as they lie, celebrating every crack and blemish. These become tools to draw with, informing the visual story of the artwork as it happens, rather than fashioning and tweaking individual pieces into a certain shape to fit a pre-determined design.

Charlie Sheppard (b. 1988) is a London-based artist whose practice centres on mosaic, spanning handcrafted ceramic works and large-scale murals united by a celebration of colour, shape and form. Sheppard's process challenges the conventions of mosaic-making, creating loose, expressive and energetic compositions that sit in deliberate tension with the medium's traditionally precise and highly controlled aesthetic.

His previous collaborations include Paul Smith, The Conran Shop and Orlebar Brown. His work has been exhibited and permanently installed in London, New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Mexico, Phuket and Palma. Daisy Chain marks Sheppard's second exhibition with 8 Holland Street, following his successful solo exhibition South Facing at the gallery's Bath space in August 2025.

CHARLIE SHEPPARD: DAISY CHAIN, an exhibition bringing together a new body of mosaic works that celebrates the playful relationship between people and flowers, at 8 Holland Street's Kensington Gallery 10 September - 7 November 2026.

Image: Charlie Sheppard photographed in his home studio by Boz Gagovski for 8 Holland Street.