Alex Roberts

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Location Berlin, Germany
Introduction Alex Roberts is an artist, curator, and educator who lives and works between Berlin and the UK. She works with paint and translucence, addressing paintings’ surface and spatial depth. Testing the sliding scales of how we perceive identity, change, encounters. She exhibits internationally. Awards: Wells Art Contemporary 2020 shortlisted; Jackson’s Open Painting Prize listed; Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust, The Eaton Fund, Arts Council England & British Council - The Artists’ International Development Fund, HIX Award finalist; Contemporary Visions VI, Beers London. Curating visual art projects is a research method, an extension of her studio practice, cross-examining how painting and art embodies the viewer. Alex completed her MAFA at Chelsea College of Arts, UAL, following a BA in Fine Art from The University of Reading. She works as a Lecturer in Drawing at Duncan Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee, and as a Lecturer at Bauhaus Summer School, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Alongside supporting Freies Zeichnen, Mediadesign Hochschule Berlin & Drawing Projects UK.