Alexandra Gromova

Based London, UK

PURCHASE ARTWORK

About

I work across painting, drawing, writing, embroidery and textile. My current practice is concerned with exploring the themes of femininity, female body, the unconscious drawings and the intangible female mental realm, especially emotional misbalance, which is borrowed from my personal experience, dreams and memories. My artworks examine the relationship between the female body and its emotional experience (presenting its physicality and dynamics). To achieve this, I use my unconscious drawings and consciously recreated, deconstructed female bodies. I enjoy working with textile and embroidery. For me, it is about femininity and exploring this theme, acknowledging this female peculiarity while being absorbed in a therapeutic process of sewing, embroidery and textile colouring.

Education

2007-2009 Stockholm School of Business, MBA
2008-2010 Saint Petersburg State Repin Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture 2010-2014 Chelsea College of Arts, UAL, BA Fine Art
2019-2020 Foundation course in Art Psychotherapy, University of Roehampton

Selected Exhibitions & Awards

Solo exhibitions:
Once Upon a Time, Embassy Tea Gallery, London, 2015
Another Wor(l)d, Vyner Street Gallery, London, 2013

Group exhibitions:
Open Art Contest, Art Number 23, virtual gallery, London, 2020
The Great Leveller, Sweet' Art, London, 2020
Contemporary Fine Art, ART.NUMBER 23, The Old Biscuit Factory, London, 2020
Anthropologio, ART.NUMBER 23, Athens, 2020
Viděné Formy (Seen Forms), HYB4 Galerie, Kampus Hybenska, Prague, 2020
Parallax Art Fair, Kensington Town Hall, London, 2019
The Other Art Fair, Victoria House, London, 2019
ART BELOW, Regent's Park, London, 2019
ART BELOW, Herrick Gallery, London, 2018
Parallax Art Fair, Chelsea Old Town Hall, London, 2016
Le Dame Art Gallery, Melia White House Hotel, London, 2016
Graduate Art & Design Exhibition, Candid Gallery, London, 2016
Islington contemporary Art and Design fair, Candid Arts Trust, London, 2014
Undergraduate Degree Show, Chelsea College of Arts, London, 2014
7 BIOSIS, The Arches, London, 2013
Art meets fashion, A collaborative project with a fashion designer ANA EVERY, 2012
Primaries, Cultivate gallery, London, 2012 Annual Open 28, Cafe Gallery, London, 2012
Entwined, Chelsea college of Arts, London, 2012
Group show, Triangle space, Chelsea college of Arts, London, 2012