She Curates x Art on a Postcard
09 SEPTEMBER 2021 - 23 SEPTEMBER 2021Notes
About
FIONA G ROBERTS graduated in 2016 from the MA Painting programme at Wimbledon College of Arts, University of the Arts London, where she was awarded the Vice Chancellor’s Scholarship.
Since graduating her work has been selected for the Jerwood Drawing Prize, the Ingram Collection’s Contemporary Talent Prize, the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize (in 2018 and 2019), Dentons Art Prize, where she was runner up and also won the Staff Prize. She took part in Choose Art/Give Light to Refugees an international, curated exhibition and charity auction in aid of refugees affected by COVID-19, the inaugural show at The Koppel Project Exchange Gallery, Piccadilly, London, ‘The Just’, a group show at Aleph Contemporary curated by Dan Coombs, ‘Ways of Protest’ at Elysium Gallery, and the Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize.
Her work has also been selected for (among others) the ING Discerning Eye exhibition, the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize exhibition, the National Open Art exhibition, the New Georgians exhibition at Orleans House Gallery, Painting [Now] (a survey of current practice) at Studio One Gallery, London and the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition. Her work is held in several collections including the David Roberts Art Foundation. Roberts also co-curated an exhibition of 12 women painters titled A Room of One’s Own at the Koppel Project Central in London. She has completed artist residencies at the Koppel Project Hive Gallery and Canary Wharf New District and she is currently taking part in the Turps Banana Painting Programme (offsite). She also has degrees from the London School of Economics and Goldsmiths College, University of London, and lives and works in London. Her work is available from Aleph Contemporary.
Education
MA Painting - Wimbledon College of Arts, University of the Arts London
Vice Chancellor's Scholarship
Selected Exhibitions/Awards
2020 - ‘The Just’, a group show at Aleph Contemporary
2020 - ‘Ways of Protest’, at Elysium Gallery
2018 - Staff Prize
Gallery Representation
Aleph Contemporary