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Alexandra Blum – Drawing Bursary Finalist

Posted on November 14, 2015 by artist

See Alexandra Blum’s drawings in the finals of the  Discerning Eye Drawing Bursary 2015 at the Mall Galleries, London plus her new watercolours at the Chocolate Factory N16’s Winter Open Studios, 28th and 29th November, 11am – 6pm.

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Drawing workshop on a minesweeper boat in London

Posted on August 25, 2015 by artist

  Would you like to explore urban space through drawing? Come to a new drawing workshop on the deck of a Minesweeper boat – led by artist Alexandra Blum. Saturday 3rd October 10.30am – 4.30pm on board the Minesweeper Collective’s … Continue reading →

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Between painting and drawing

Posted on June 16, 2015 by artist

For our Summer Open Studios, Catherine Hennessy in studio G1 will show a series of small, quick, simple paintings – views from trains, and some larger, inky water-colours of inside the studio, somewhere between painting and drawing.  Hope to see … Continue reading →

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Fast drawings: through train windows, streetscapes & gesticulating poet’s hands…

Posted on December 2, 2014 by artist

Catherine Hennessy in G1 will be showing small, fast drawings: landscapes made through train windows, streetscapes through café windows, gesticulating poets’ hands, and some large Japanese landscapes.

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Spatial illusion and materiality in the urban environment

Posted on November 12, 2014 by artist

Alexandra Blum’s new drawings (studio G10) combine spatial illusion with the materiality of negative space, ink and layered paint, to explore our daily navigation through urban environments.  Catch them at our Winter Open Studios!  6th and 7th December, 11am – 6pm. … Continue reading →

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Threadneedle Prize Private View

Posted on September 2, 2012 by artist

One of Alexandra Blum’s Dalston drawings has been selected for the Threadneedle Prize exhibition, described as the ‘the UK’s leading showcase for contemporary figurative and representational painting and sculpture’ on show at the Mall Galleries, the Mall, London, SW1 from … Continue reading →

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