Alex Dewart, Curriculum Vitae

 

Contact: alex.dewart@virgin.net                    www.dewart.net

 

 Recent Exhibitions

2010, ‘Now and Then’, RM Data Solutions, Blue Fin Building, Southwark St, London

2009,  Surface!’, The Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock OX20 1SN

           ‘Future Shock’, Bucks New Uni, Octagon Gallery, High Wycombe

           ‘Artists in Buckinghamshire’, BP Collins, Gerrards Cross

 

2008,   Alex Dewart and Heather Bowring ,*Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno

           ‘Your Scene’,Candid Galleries, Islington, London EC1

           ‘Off Your Wall Too’, Leeds Met Gallery, Civic Centre, Leeds

             ‘On the Surface’, The Parlour, London,NW5 4DS

 

Selected Exhibitions

Group

2007, **‘Batteries Not Included, Mind as Machine’, The Whittingham Riddell Open,Shrewsbury                        

2007, **‘The Sketchbook Circle’, Southhill Arts Centre Gallery, Bracknell

2007,   ‘The MA and other Post Graduates Show’, Atkinson Gallery, Somerset

2006, **‘MA Fine Art Degree’ Show, Central St Martins School of Art and Design London

2006,   ‘Quick and Dirty’, The Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, South Bank, London SE1

2006,   ‘Landscape’, Artbelowzero , The Westbourne Studios, London W10

2005,   ‘Memory’, BCUC Foyer Exhibition Space, High Wycombe

2005,   ‘Contexture’, Candid Galleries, Islington, London EC1

2005,   ‘New’, Stroud House Gallery, Stroud, Gloucestershire

Solo

2003,   ‘A Sense of Place’, Harleyford Manor, Marlow, Bucks,

 

*The Guardian reviewed this exhibition on Sat 5th Jan – see Review for details

** Catalogue available for these exhibitions

 

Work held in Collections

CASS Business School, London

Real Italy Ltd, Le Marche, Italy

OISE Language Schools, London

 

Competitons/Awards

Nov 2006, Sponsored Artist, Inspired Art Fair, London

2006, Celeste Painting Prize, Shortlist

2006 Red Mansion Prize Finalist

2005, Shortlisted Artist, Bloomberg New Contemporaries

2004, Shortlisted artist, John Moore’s 23 Painting Exhibition

 

Education

2006, M.A., Fine Art, Central St. Martins School of Art and Design, London

2004, B.A. Fine Art, First Class Honours, Buckinghamshire Chiltern’s University College, High Wycombe,

1982 B Sc Eng, Electrical and Electronic Eng. Queen’s University Belfast

 

Other

2005, Artist Mentor, CARA Project, Arts Council, Woodlane High School, London

Current — Art tutor, —Art Appreciation;Drawing and Painting , various school projects

 

Gallery Representation/Professional Organisations

Axis, www.axisweb.org

New Blood Art (on line gallery), www.newbloodart.com

The Art Source (on line gallery), www.theartsource.org

Candid Arts, (graduate organisation), www.candidarts.com

 

REVIEWS

 

Sat 5th Jan 2008, The Guardian

Heather Bowring And Alex Dewart Llandudno

‘A small-scale yet engaging exhibition of evocative semi-abstract paintings by Heather Bowring and Alex Dewart. Working for - and sometimes in collaboration with - visually impaired people, Bowring calls her works "sculpted paintings". An accumulation of hundreds of textured dots, her Braille-like images can be read with the fingers as much as viewed with the eyes. Alex Dewart's landscapes (pictured), based initially on computer improvisations, glow with a fantastical wow factor. Dewart calls these suggestive organic expanses "contemporary sublime". They depict Romantic wonderment digitally filtered and sensationally enhanced.’
Robert Clark

· Oriel 6&7, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, to Jan 22