"I love looking. I draw to see more, to discover and record the interactions between part and whole, and between myself and the wider world. I aim to pin down specific characteristics of the spaces I come across and hope to convey my subjective experience of time as I do so." Alexandra Blum, 2021
During recent projects, residencies and commissions I have documented the precarious relationship between massive industrial and elemental forces on the banks of the Thames at Angerstein Wharf, the exhilarating temporal landscape within the vast Dalston Square construction site, east London and the boundaries between interior and exterior space within my home.
My drawings have been included in exhibitions at The Museum of the Home, Hackney Museum and the London Transport Museum. Awards include the Hugh Casson Drawing Prize 2019 at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, an Oppenheim John-Downes Award 2012 and First Prize in the David Gluck Memorial Bursary for Drawing in 2008.
I am also an artist educator at the Courtauld Institute of Art.
The fragmented spatial and temporal structures in my work are informed by my interest in Early Netherlandish painting and a MEXT research scholarship at Kyoto City University of Arts, Japan (1996-98).
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