Alexandra Blum Alexandra Blum

Both drawings already sold at the RA Summer Exhibition

I was delighted to find out that both my drawings ‘Act’ and ‘Home IV’ have already sold at this year’s Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy. Very happy to know both drawings will soon be off to wonderful new homes.

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Exciting plans for 2024…

I'm delighted to be exhibiting in several group shows next year and I'm currently making new work in the Canary Wharf/West India Docks area, in preparation for one of next year's group shows. 

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Solo exhibition announced! Join my mailing list for your invitation to the Private View.

I’m thrilled to announce my solo show Wayfaring at Fitzrovia Gallery, London, 18th - 28th October 2023. (Please note change to closing date).

Anthropologist Tim Ingold defines wayfaring as a process whereby a person moves through a landscape whilst maintaining an ‘active engagement with the country that opens up along [their] path’ (Lines, A brief History, 2007. Routledge Classics, 2016, p.78). This description feels very relevant to the way I ….

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‘Edge of the Storm’ has a new home.

I’m delighted my panoramic drawing ‘Edge of the Storm’ has been sold and is off to a new home.

I began the drawing in the afternoon on 18th February 2022. Earlier that day, I’d been delivering a drawing workshop focussing on Leon Kossoff for the Courtauld Institute of Art’s Young People’s Programme. I was grateful to be teaching online, from home, as Storm Eunice was raging outside. The internet connection held up, but the lights kept flickering and, with the wind howling and building creaking, it sounded as if I were on-board a ship….

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New drawings on show at ArtHub Open Studios 10th & 11th September 2022

When I was drawing from my window at home during lockdown, it felt as though my window provided a strict barrier between interior and exterior. In contrast, when I’m drawing in my new studio, the building feels part of the surrounding industrial landscape, temporarily inhabited as a lookout post.

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