Approved: 16.08.2006

Alex Dewart

Artist, Curator, Teacher

Approved: 16.08.2006

Alex Dewart is a contemporary artist whose themes include memory, nostalgia, commemoration and loss. She works mainly across drawing, painting, textiles, printmaking, film and photography. Her work can be characterised by use of vibrant colour pattern and line. Imagery can be figurative,abstract or landscape

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Artist Statement

Alex Dewart is a contemporary artist whose themes include memory, nostalgia, commemoration and loss. She works mainly across drawing, painting, textiles, printmaking, film and photography. Her work can be characterised by use of vibrant colour pattern and line. Imagery can be figurative,abstract or landscape

CV & Education

ART QUALIFICATIONS

MA Fine Art, Central St.Martin's School of Art and Design, London

BA Fine Art, First Class Honours, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, High Wycombe

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2023 - Upcoming, Family, Museum of Katowice, Poland, Jun 7- August 31

Currrent- Uncertain Landscapes, Alex Dewart and Heather McAteer, Flowerfield Arts Centre, Northern Ireland

2022- Solo Exhibition, A Good Drying Day, A Family History in Tea Towels, Braid Arts Centre, Ballymena

         Solo Exhibition, The Scale of Things, North Wall Gallery, Oxford

2020 - Ferens Open, Ferens Gallery, Hull, England

Ripe, Arts Care, Bloomfield Avenue, Belfast, Northern Ireland

2018 - Une Vie Exposee, Galerie KH15, Berlin, Only the Sunny Days, Brock Keep Reading; Rebekah Ann Steele- curated project, Arcadia Gallery, Portrush, Northern Ireland

2017 -  Drawbridge Berlin, Remise Galerie Berlin (Curated); Drawbridge London, Arhouse1, Bermondsey London (Curated) ; Castles in the Air, Schloss Lekow, Poland (Co curated with Danny Rolph); The Art of Dying, Alex Dewart ,Cally Trench and Sally Scagell, Wycombe Museum, High Wycombe ,Bucks, England

2016 - Ellipse, Remise Galerie, Berlin -Curated Project

Les Dames du Luxembourg, OpenStudios, Spandau Zitadelle, Berlin

2015 - 365 Dessins, Gallerie d'Anieres, Geneva

Wer ist eine Heldin?, Remise Gallery, Berlin

Helden und Schurken, Spandau Zitadelle, Berlin

2014- Tag der Offenen Ateliers, Spandau Zitadelle,Berlin,

Control, Control Room, Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol

Atelier Aperto, Careof Gallery,Fabbrica del Vapore Milan, Italy, (Residency, Feb /March 2014)

365 Drawings, Openhand Openspace, Reading

2013- Let Us Snow, Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin, Germany

Dream Spaces, Ursula Leach and Alex Dewart, New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham

Libero, 1 Paget St, London

Winter Open, 1 Church St Gallery, Great Missenden

A Brush with Art, Wycombe Museum,High Wycombe,Bucks (until March 2014)

2012 - The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries London

Remarkable Place, The Keep,Reading

Winter Open,1 Church St Gallery, Great Missenden

Sedici Artists, Shed Gallery, Hampshire

2011 - Smaller than a Lemon, Angelika Studios, High Wycombe

  View This, Brick Lane Gallery,London

Need and Desire, Blue Fin Building Southwark,London

2010 - At Play 2, Bracknell Gallery, Southill Park Bracknell

Stories, Wolverhampton City Museum and Art Gallery

Artists in Buckinghamshire, BP Collins, Gerrards Cross

Landscape Memory and Maps, Blue Fin Building, Southwark,London

 2009 - Future Shock, Bucks New Uni Gallery, High Wycombe

NAD Artists, City University,London 

 SURFACE!, The Oxfordshire Museum

Now and Then, Blue Fin Building, Southwark London

2008 - Off Your Wall, Leeds Met Gallery

 On The Surface, The Parlour, London 

 Start your Collection, Contemporary Art Projects, London

Your Scene, Candid Arts, Islington, London

 2007 - Batteries not included,Mind as Machine, Shrewsbury Museum, Shrewsbury

 The MA and Other Post Graduates Show, Atkinson Gallery, Somerset 

The Sketchbook Circle, BCUC, High Wycombe

The Sketchbook Circle, The Gallery, Southhill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell

 Landscape, Artbelowzero, The Westbourne Studios, London

2006 - MA Fine Art Degree Show, Central St Martins School of Art and Design, Charing Cross Rd, London

Quick and Dirty, The Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, London 

 Sublime Domesticity, Henley Art Centre, Henley, Oxon

Artspeak, Candid Arts, Islington, London 

Contexture, Candid Galleries, London

Memorise, Candid Galleries, London

Memory, BCUC Foyer Exhibition Space, BCUC, High Wycombe

2005 - New, Stroud House Gallery, Stroud, Gloucester

 CURATED PROJECTS

2011 - Need and Desire, Blue Fin Building, Southwark St,London

2010 - Landscape, Memory and Maps,  Blue Fin Building London

2009 - Now and Then, Blue Fin Building, London