Alexandra Baraitser

Alexandra Baraitser is a curator, painter and founder of the Bricklayers Brunch artists network. Born in Cape Town, South Africa, 1971, she studied painting at Chelsea College of Art in 1995 and went on to win the Abbey Scholarship in Painting at the British School at Rome in 1997. In 1998 she was shortlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize and the Natwest Art Prize and in 2019 she was selected to show at Kettle's Yard’s 'The Cambridge Show'.

She has been the recipient of a British Council Award, Grants for the Arts Award and an Arts Council Emergency Funding Award (COVID-19 emergency funding 2020). Baraitser's paintings are a celebration of contemporary design and architecture and are based on images she selects from vintage magazines. Through painting she hopes to invite discussion of the relationship between 'high art' abstraction and iconic design. Alexandra has been represented by Hirschl Contemporary Art, Paton Gallery and Mark Jason Gallery.

Studio:
Click here to see the artist's studio

Interviews:
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire interview for Kettle's Yard 4 October 2019: Listen from 70mins in

Articles:
The technology bubble that hasn't burst
There's a poetry in painting that gives endless possibilities

For images of the catalogue by Lewisham Arthouse Gallery 2018:
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For images of the catalogue by ArthouSE1 2019:
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