Winner

RSA New Contemporaries, Euan Stewart Memorial Prize

Painting & Printmaking School of Fine Art

Alexandra Beteeva (she/her)

I am a Russian artist based in Glasgow, exploring roots as the cornerstone of identity.

Working from memory as well as cropped images, I am motivated by themes of immersion and invitation. I set stages and choreograph its inhabitants. The challenge is working out that balancing act — creating a world where figures cannot exist without the space and the space cannot exist without the figures.

Contemporary political reality in Russia sees a complete rewriting of history and no one is acting, paralysed in a world of mythologies and nostalgia. Myths do not exist anywhere except cultural memory. It is, however, a ruined and fragmented culture, with accordingly unfamiliar myths, which breed violence and horror. What is left among the debris of the cultural tradition and what is art’s role in filling this void?

Works featured in the RSA Annual Exhibition 2021, VAS Annual Exhibition 2022.

Contact
beteevart@gmail.com
A.Beteeva1@student.gsa.ac.uk
beteevart
@getbeta
Works
Roots, 2022
Prints, 2021-22

Roots, 2022

There is a conversation that emerges between the real subjects and something otherworldly, uncanny. I look at traditional fairytales for inspiration. The works are loaded in context, rooted in explorations of pattern.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I find myself drawn to my family’s old photo albums. I paint the past to transport one to the present, connecting the gap that explains the chaos, obvious now more than ever. I use painting as a tool to process reality.

You won’t catch up with them I

2022, oil on canvas, 90сm х 90сm
For Sale: Price on Request

You won’t catch up with them II

2022, oil on canvas, 100сm х 100сm
For Sale: Price on Request

You won’t catch up with them

The Moth

2021, oil on MDF, 30сm х 30сm
For Sale: £500

Forest

2022, oil on MDF, 30сm х 30сm
For Sale: £400

It had never learned to speak

2022, oil on canvas, 100сm х 100сm
For Sale: Price on Request

Leshy

2022, oil on MDF, 40сm х 40сm
For Sale: £500

Burrow

2022, oil on canvas, 108сm х 93сm
For Sale: Price on Request

Catch the sunlight

2022, oil on canvas, 100сm х 90сm
For Sale: Price on Request

When all of the lights went out

2022, oil on canvas, 85сm х 65сm
For Sale: Price on Request

A family treasure

2022, oil on canvas, 45сm х 45сm
For Sale: Price on Request

Good night

2022, oil on canvas, 85cm x 65cm
For Sale: Price on Request

Prints, 2021-22

Natasha

2022, lithograph, 70сm х 88сm
For Sale: £100

Volga II (a study)

2022, etching, 30сm х 35сm
For Sale: £100

Fiagdon

2022, etching, 30сm х 35сm
For Sale: £100

Upper Fiagdon

2022, etching, 25сm х 30сm
For Sale: £100

Volga (a study)

2022, etching, 30сm х 35сm
For Sale: £100

Untitled

2022, lithograph, 38сm х 57сm
For Sale: £100

Untitled

2021, lithograph, 60cm x 70cm
For Sale: £100

Untitled

2021, etching and aquatint, 30cm x 30cm
For Sale: £100

Lukomorye

2021, etching and aquatint, 25сm х 25сm
For Sale: £100

A Golden Chain

2021, lithograph, 50cm x 35cm
For Sale: £100

Untitled

2021, lithograph, 50сm х 35сm
For Sale: £100

Untitled

2022, lithograph, 70сm х 88сm
For Sale: £100