Lot 92 - Alexandra Beteeva - Unlucky in daylight

Pencil on paper
2024
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Marta Marsicka

About
Alexandra Beteeva (b.1999) creates nostalgic paintings, prints and drawings tinged with intimacy and innocence. Interested in post-Soviet spaces and 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, the Caucasus becomes an interesting space to explore. 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.

Education
2022–2023
Turps Correspondence Course

2018–2022
Glasgow School of Art: BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting & Printmaking, Glasgow, United Kingdom

2017–2018
University of the Arts London: CCW Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, London, United Kingdom

Selected Exhibitions
2024
Eye to Paper vol. 2, Edinburgh Palette, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
RSA New Contemporaries Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Drawing Now, Carreau du Temple, Paris, France
New Contemporaries, Camden Art Centre, London, United Kingdom

2023
New Contemporaries, Grundy Art Gallery, United Kingdom
A Former Life, Traits Libres Gallery, Paris, France
Do Not Swallow, Safehouse Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Eye to Paper, Edinburgh Palette, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Mud, For You, Fitzrovia Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Zug Zwang, Foundry, Dubai, UAE

Awards
2024
RSA New Contemporaries, Royal Scottish Academy

2023
New Contemporaries, Bloomberg

2022
Selected artist, Portrait Artist of the Year
Euan Stewart Memorial Prize for Printmaking, Glasgow School of Art

Gallery Representation
Traits Libres Gallery (Paris, France)

Mute.Gallery (Dubai, UAE)

Deep List (Moscow, Russia)

Public Collections
Dumfries House collection, The King’s Foundation (United Kingdom)

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork
The drawings created for AOAP dive into the language of memory. They explore patterns uniting figures and space, cultural signifiers and repetition. These elements help me tell the untold stories of those caught between the unforgiving turns of history.