
I am a British artist who paints while walking long distances, often across mountains, borders, or under geopolitical, climatic, historical or religious pressure. Each walk usually has an art historical or literary impetus, and the paintings I make along the way are shaped by the conditions they are made in: weather, altitude, solitude or fatigue.
In 2022, I walked from Milan to Munich, loosely following the route the Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel took over the Alps in 1554. That journey became the exhibition Walking After Bruegel. More recently, I made a winter walk through the mountains of Wales, and travelled on skis through the Austrian Alps. Earlier painting trips have taken me to the Caucasus Mountains of Dagestan, and the pilgrimage town of Tirupati in Southern India, often working alongside local artists, journalists or pilgrims.
The work itself is necessarily spontaneous and portable. I paint in mountain huts, hotels, forests, and on hillsides. The paper or silk supports crease and wear as they travel in my rucksack, and when they are framed behind glass afterwards, they become fragile artifacts to the landscapes they travelled.
Education
2017/18 MA Painting. (Distinction). Wimbledon College of Arts, University of the Arts London.
2001-2004 Bsc Anthropology. University College London.
Exhibitions
April-May 2024 - Solo Exhibition 'Walking After Bruegel: Paintings From Mountain Huts' The Muse Gallery, London.
Oct-Nov 2023 - 'Don't Look Back' Vivienne Roberts Projects, The Bindery, London
Nov-Dec 2021 'We Are Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On, Aleph Contemporary. Cello Factory, London
Nov 2020 - 'Art On A Postcard' London
Oct-Dec 2020- 'Reflections' Aleph Contemporary. London
Nov 2019 - The Ethnic Cultural Centre, Makhachkala, Dagestan, Russia
July 2019 -'Loop' Blase' London
Mar 2019 -'Guerilla Warefare' Blase, London
Apr 2019 - Vishnu Manchu Art Residency Exhibition, Turupathi, South India
Nov 2018 -'Wrong Food' Blasé, London
Sept 2018 - Wimbledon College of Art MA Show, London
May 2018 -'62 Hands'. Lewisham Art House, London
Residencies and Painting Trips
2025 - January, A Walk from Merthyr Tydfil to Conway
2024 - January, A Walk on Skis from Innsbruck up to a Mountain Hut
2022 - October and November, A Walk from Milan to Munich
2021 - A Walk from Dorset to Cornwall
2020 - A Walk around Dorset
2019 - Vishnu Manchu Art Foundation Residency, Tirupati, South India.
2018 - Winter Walk, Tusheti, Georgia
2017 - Winter Residency, Dagestan Republic, Russia
2016 - Winter Walk, Albanian Alps
2014 - Walk, the rivers of South China
2014 - Winter Walk, Tusheti, Georgia
2009 - Documnetary Film, Koidu, Sierra Leone, https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/video/2013/sep/11/sierra-leone-child-soldier-video
2005 - Sailing from Antigua to New York
2004 - Sailing the Coast of Scotland from Grimsby to Belfast
2003 - Winter Walk, Pyrenees
2003 - Himilaya Walk, India and Nepal
2002 - UCL Expedition Grant, Rowing down the Mekong River from China to Vietnam
2000 - Rowing down the Ganges River, India
2000 - East Himilaya, Sikkim, India
Contact
Represented by Vivienne Roberts Projects
viviennerobertsprojects.com