Alex Roberts

Alex’s practice and research process frequently develops as a two-fold method: the personal, studio-based form of research centred around the relationships of painting (and drawing), painting through drawing, drawing through painting. Often extending to public, collaborative form of curation which seeks to examine how painting beholds the viewer. Latest examples are The Performativity of Painting at The Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich Galleries, and Arts Council England & British Council funded, Connect: Katowice, a British-Polish, yearlong exchange and series of exhibitions.

Willingly view the archive of selected curated research via the following pages.

A choreographed meeting.

16 January – 16 February 2018, The Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich Galleries. 

Artists: Tobias Buckel, Liz Elton, David Lock, J.A. Nicholls, Selma Parlour, James Pimperton, Rebecca Molloy, Alex Roberts

Painting – the performance of structures, fragments and use of space within the perceived painted frame, and the relating inherent surround.

In bringing together these artists, through their distinct individual accounts and methodologies, the exhibition, The Performativity of Painting offered the opportunity to consider site-specificity, theatrical tropes, depicted surfaces, staging and the interconnectedness of the artwork’s context (in the works’ content and proximity). In this sense, the exhibition sought to address painting's embodiment of the performative space.  

Curator: Alex Roberts

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Documentation of the recent exhibition is available to view via an email accessible PDF.  

We would like to thank Dr. Ken Wilder for his insightful text, written specifically to accompany the exhibition.  To download a copy of the E-Catalogue please click here

Dr. Ken Wilder is an artist and writer. Having practiced and taught architecture, he now makes site responsive installations and films. Based at Chelsea College of Arts, he is the University of the Arts Reader in Spatial Design. He has published widely on issues of reception aesthetics, including Bloomsbury’s 2016 anthology Painting: Critical and Primary Sources.

This website is currently being updated/refreshed.

Connect: Katowice, London, 2016-2017. British-Polish exchange, collaboration and display.

Housed, The Cookhouse, Chelsea College of Arts, 2015.

Transient Façades, The Well, London College of Communication, University of Arts London, 2012.

Art & Sausages, 17 Somerton Road; trion contemporary, The Arndean Gallery, Cork Street; 2d Olympia, Olympia London; Model Village, Northdown Street, London; Lot.18, The Candid Gallery; late arrivals @ kings cross, 36-40 York Way, London - Archive.