Girl Friday Breakfast Club with Alex Roberts, Drawing Projects UK

Description

Drawing Projects UK invited, Alex Roberts is a painter who focuses upon how we perceive identity, change, and encounters. Testing the sliding scales of figuration and abstraction, her visual language travels between observation and material play. She engages with paint and translucence, addressing paintings’ surface, layers, and spatial depth by effecting colour and immediacy of marks. Alex also intermittently curates art exhibitions and platforms of exchange which seek to examine how painting beholds the viewer.

Alex’s Girl Friday Breakfast Club online presentation offers personal insight into the above introduction; her tenacious creative career path and experience to date, ongoing studio practice and current curatorial project, G.R.I.T.

Gestural Reflective & Inquiring Tales (G.R.I.T.) - is centred around an exhibition of fourteen painters, which explores how gesture and its physicality engage both the maker and the viewer. The contributing artists tackle some of the core principles of contemporary painting, and G.R.I.T. contextualizes art as a collective practice which, at the same time, requires deep contemplation. With international contributors, the show aims to bridge Europe, and is currently on show on at KUNSTPUNKT in Berlin (receiving press, top tipped/ e.g. reviews by Tip Berlin), and will then be presented at Drawing Projects UK in Dundee, Scotland. Through those two instalments, the project develops a model for sustainable artistic exchange. Beyond the exhibition, G.R.I.T. includes symposia as well as a public program, and the project aims to further discourse with a publication.

The Girl Friday Breakfast Club was established by Professors Kate Reynolds and Anita Taylor in 2018 to provide a friendly and informal space for women to meet and to hear from an interesting woman speaker over breakfast at Drawing Projects UK on the last Friday of each month.

Period	30 Aug 2024
Event title	Girl Friday Breakfast Club, Drawing Projects UK: Girl Friday Breakfast Club with Alex Roberts
Event type	Other
Location	United KingdomShow on map