Charles Piers Mackesy was born on 11 December 1962 and is a British artist, illustrator, and the author of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse.
16 Facts About Charlie Mackesy
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Charlie Mackesy began his career as a cartoonist for The Spectator, before becoming a book illustrator for Oxford University Press.
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Charlie Mackesy worked with Richard Curtis on the set of Love Actually to create a set of drawings to be auctioned for Comic Relief, a charity.
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Charlie Mackesy has continued to work with the organization which he loves.
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Charlie Mackesy was selected to work on Nelson Mandela's Unity Series project, a lithograph project working together with Mandela on the drawings he made.
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Charlie Mackesy's paintings have been exhibited widely, most frequently with galleries in London and New York.
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Charlie Mackesy's work has been featured in books, private collections, galleries, magazine covers, street lamp posts, school classrooms, cafes, women's safe houses, churches, prisons, hospital wards, and countless other public spaces around the world.
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Charlie Mackesy was contacted by an editor who had seen his drawings on Instagram and then published with her on Ebury Press.
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Charlie Mackesy was amongst the winners of the 2020 Nielsen Bestseller Awards, with The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse achieving Platinum status.
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Charlie Mackesy was awarded Maddox Gallery Artist of the Year at the GQ Men of the Year Awards in 2020 and Illustrator of the Year at the British Book Awards in 2021.
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Charlie Mackesy co-directed and co-wrote the animated short film based on the book.
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Charlie Mackesy was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2024 New Year Honours for services to art and literature.
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Charlie Mackesy grew up in Northumberland, England and attended Radley College and Queen Elizabeth High School in Hexham.
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Charlie Mackesy briefly attended university twice, but left on both occasions within a week.
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Charlie Mackesy has lived and painted in South Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the United States.
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Away from art Charlie Mackesy co-runs Mama Buci, which is a honey social enterprise in Zambia, and has helped to run a homeless project in London.