- Venue
- 7/7a Gt. Guildford Business Square
- Starts
- Thursday, November 3, 2011
- Ends
- Saturday, December 3, 2011
- Address
- 7/7a Gt. Guildford Business Square, Gt. Guildford Street, London, SE1 0HS. Nearest tube: Southwark. Tubes & Trains: London Bridge, Waterloo. Enquiries/catalogues: [email protected] 07765 891 166
- Location
- London
British artist Alex Roberts unveils her new series of works, Individual Liberty at a space in South East London, the artistic hub of the capital, this autumn. The works on show vibrantly and playfully celebrate the unsung beauty of fearlessness. By capturing individuals’ characteristics and placing them in the spotlight, Roberts’ portraits are candid insights into the worlds of others, and compel the viewer to contemplate what beauty really is. They urge the viewer to admire external individuality whilst simultaneously acknowledging our shared internal temperaments. Through her paintings Roberts highlights how vulnerability is not a weakness: to allow ourselves to be vulnerable is to possess the confidence to let go of our own and others’ preconceptions, and therefore free ourselves of society’s constraints. Roberts applies humour and fantastical imagery to express such truths and uses them as a tool to reveal the true essence of the human character, the individual that lies behind this veil of self assurance. The exhibition offers the viewer the opportunity to introspectively view their own personal world, examining how we deal with our own subjectivity. Roberts has likened her concept to a pictorial expression of Doris Lessing’s notion that “Writing about oneself, one is writing about others, since our problems, pains, pleasures, emotions – and your extraordinary and remarkable ideas – can’t be yours alone.”
