Art on a Postcard x War Child UK 2024 Part II

About
Alexandra Beteeva (b. 1999, Moscow) is based in Glasgow and received her BA in Painting and Printmaking from Glasgow School of Art in 2022. Interested in post-Soviet spaces that are loving and familiar, a process of presenting history in the form of personal and collective memory, she asks what it means to be homesick for a home one never had. Motivated by themes of immersion through pattern, the Caucasus becomes an interesting heterogeneous space to explore. Stuck between history, place and time, she crystallises the collective experience of the past. Her work consists of oil paintings, drawings and prints.

Education
Glasgow School of Art

Select Exhibitions/Awards
Alexandra was selected for the RSA New Contemporaries award, Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2023,the Hospitalfield Graduate Residency Programme 2023-24, Dumfries House x Royal Drawing School Printmaking Residency and is a recipient of the Euan Stewart Memorial Prize for Printmaking.

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork
Alexandra works with the archive, images that help to see and understand the past more accurately, as during excavations, the missing, but suddenly found part of the object, makes the idea of it whole. She conveys the intimacy of personal moments, thinking about loss, displacement and belonging.


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