"My work is less about money than about the associations we make between money and value. By redrawing a banknote, by breaking down its structure and then reappropriating it as somthing purely aesthetic, you view it with different eyes. From that point, you can start to question the value of the thing it represents: a promise, a concept, a lump of gold that doesn't even exist anymore." Cash Flow: Discovering Emerging Artists, Charlotte Edwards, ArtReview Sept. '05

Charlie England's work predominantly focuses on those institutional documents that certify us as citizens. For his first solo show at Wyer Gallery, England presented The Hell in Hello, a series of installations (12 images, each encased in its own perspex vitrine and presented as 6 diptychs) in which the aesthetics of banknotes are deconstructed and notions of value and possession questioned. In it, he painstakingly re-works the designs of different currencies and with them interweaves his own narrative statement: a sequence of drawn icebergs set drifting accross the complex yet graceful configurations of anti counterfeit patterns, holographic foils and intricate security threads.

Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2004, Charlie England has exhibited widely accross the UK and in Europe. He has exhibited at Zoo Art Fair with The Great Unsigned, with ARTfutures at the Contemporary Art Society and his work is in many collections including the Government Art Collection.