Lot 160 - Alina Dieth - Sleeping Woman and Dog

Wax pastel on paper
2024
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Art on a Postcard

About
Alina is a German, London-based fine artist working almost entirely in dry media, predominantly charcoal. Her work explores moments of tenderness and care in a fleeting and desperately fast-moving world, with a strong relationship to animals and nature. Drawing from personal experience and memory, she wants to invite the viewer to reflect on their own memories and cogitate their perception and stance to anything they surround themselves with, opening a window into the quiet observation and contemplation of deep care, love, and loss.

A meditation on the longing for active participation in our environment and the feeling of passiveness stemming from our disconnection to the natural world lies at the heart of her practice to help people, make them feel heard, and give solace.

Alina studied Illustration at Camberwell College of Art before joining the postgraduate programme “The Drawing Year” at the acclaimed Royal Drawing School in Shoreditch. She is part of the represented artists collective “AGB Emerging” at Alice Black Gallery.

Education
2021-2022
BA Illustration, Camberwell College of Art, London, UK

2022-2023
"The Drawing Year" Postgraduate Programme, The Royal Drawing School, London, UK

Solo Exhibitions
N/A

Group Exhibitions
2023
The Best of the Drawing Year, Christie’s, London, UK
The Best of the Drawing Year, The Royal Drawing School, London, UK
Open Studios, SPACE, London, UK

2024
AGB Emerging Collection 01, Alice Black Gallery, London, UK
Gathering Relief, Appach Gallery, London, UK
Whorl, Pulp Collective at Hypha, London, UK

Residencies
Moritz-Heyman Foundation Residency, Borgo Pignano, Tuscany, 2023 and 2024
National Trust Hafod Estate Residency, Wales, 2024

Public Collections
The Royal Collection, Windsor, UK

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork
My work attempts to create an alternate universe, which breaks down the boundaries between humans and nature, while stressing the importance of community, empathy, and interrelatedness between humans and the broader ecological non-human community.