Monday 26 October 2015

Choices, Gallery 3, The Edge, University of Bath.

Choices is a solo exhibition by British artist Alex Roberts

Fri 30 Oct 2015 - Wed 20 Jan 2016, Mon - Sat 10am - 5pm

The Visitors, 2015

The launch of the evolving exhibition coincides with Art Weekender - Bristol & Bath

An arranged set of paintings opens the conversation, complete with conscious, empty pauses.  November will witness the arrival of two new works - subtly transforming the show and adding to the dialogue over the next three months.

Art Weekender - Bristol & Bath 
Fri 30 Oct - Sun 1 Nov 2015, open daily 10am - 5pm 
How to visit The Edge, please click here

Choices seeks to explore the associations between the artwork, the viewer and the artist within the location setting, the latter context being a ‘gallery, display space’ at The Edge, University of Bath. 

With our present, fleeting, selfie-obsessed, virtual-curated society we are often left questioning, who are we? Who are they? How do others know us or we others? Are we who we say we are? What’s next? Questions are set against our news coverage backdrop of constant suffering images and reports, from a world seemingly detached from the simplicity of human closeness and reverence of life, why? 

Choices pursues to reveal what remains dormant, under-exposed, unresolved, or not given time for reflection within us, and amongst our momentary culture. A collection of works that address the concerns of mid-encounters, decision-making, transitory states and contrasting human conditions, that often reside side by side via the intimate and immediate medium of paint.

The premise of this exhibition proposes a chain of perspectives that challenges the artwork’s subject, the viewer, the artist, and the resonance that follows.

Alongside her practice Alex Roberts delivers painting and life drawing classes for ICIA and the Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering, University of Bath.

For further information or sale enquiries please contact the ICIA Box Office




Art Weekender Bristol & Bath is a three-day celebration of the visual arts across the two cities, taking place from Friday 30 October to Sunday 1 November. Now in its second year, the Art Weekender is produced by Situations in partnership with over 30 arts venues, artist-led groups and arts producers. The Weekender brings together exhibitions, one-off special events, artists’ talks, family activities and trails, public artworks and performances by outstanding contemporary artists in multiple locations, with free access to just about every venue and project. For further details of the programme, itineraries and visitor information please go to artweekender.com

Friday 2 October 2015

Disstemma 7

The Window Opened Just a Crack, and the Grey Rolled In (extract), 2015. 
Image credit: Paul Abbott. 
Disstemma is delighted to present a group exhibition of work by artists Paul Abbott, Ray Brazier, Simon O’Donovan, James Pimperton, Andrew Rickett, Alex Roberts, Jonathan Slaughter, Linda Vigdorcika.

The Crypt Gallery, St Pancras Church, Euston Road, NW1 2BA 
(entrance Dukes Road) cryptgallery.org.uk 
Key dates:17 - 24 October 2015
Private view: 6 - 9pm, 16 October
Open daily: Monday - Sunday 11am - 7pm 
Associated with the Bloomsbury Festival 22 - 25 October bloomsburyfestival.org.uk

Disstemma, an ongoing series of collective exhibitions, facilitates the dialogue among artists working around a common theme, providing a platform for exhibiting in unusual contexts.

Disstemma 7 is the latest incarnation of this series. It brings together artists who use connecting multi-layered logics, spatial and temporal positioning, disordered recognitions, and shifting standpoints between the natural, the synthetic and the virtual, in order to interrogate the relative reality of complex visual sensation.

For further information please contact Paul Abbott info@pabbott.net or 
Simon O’Donovan simonodonovan1@me.com 
disstemma.com  facebook.com/events/1654576018146062/ 

PRESS RELEASE and more detailed imagery is available, please make a request via 
Disstemma 7 - press release/intro catalogue


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