ABOUT | yael-roberts

ABOUT Yael Roberts is a mixed media artist who body-prints from found glass and wood to create large-scale installations. Using found objects, she carves into their surface, drawing from memory, dream, and reality to alter the objects and prepare them for printing. She then integrates drawing into the printing process itself, both with her body as well as with writing implements and objects on the back of the paper. The imagery and drawing is reflective of the natural world, extinction, mythic place, and contemporary capitalistic patterns of living. As the prints build up in the studio over the course of months or years, they are variably editioned, replicated, collaged, and messed with, to create wall and space-based work which the viewer wanders through. The making of the work is performative, as well as collaborative, co-created from conversations with people and inspired by their movements and intuition. The prints are shown alongside or inspired by photographs and films collected from the artist’s day-to-day life, and all of the work emerges from research, reading, sketching, and writing. Photo Credit: Colin Barnes.

EDUCATION
Camberwell College of Arts, MA Visual Arts: Printmaking, 2015-2017
Yeshiva University (Stern College for Women), BA English Literature, Studio Art, 2010-2014

SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Still Here, Lumen Crypt Gallery, 14-17 October 2021
Nine Days, Fish Factory Art Space, Penryn, Cornwall, 19-23 August 2021
The Trauma Documents, Manchester Jewish Museum, January 2020
Mortal Oil II, Strange Parade, Nunhead, 24 January 2020
Still Here, The Newbridge Project, Gateshead, 5-13 July 2019
Incantation Bowls, Leo Baeck College Library, Finchley, London 20 June-1 August 2019
One and One, Jewish Vegetarian Society, 10-19 September
Death Bed Practice, Barberette, London, 6 February-6 March 2017
Correspondences, Blackburn 20/20, New York City, January 15-21, 2014

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
This Modern Model of an Unseen Scene, Safehouse, London, UK, 13-19 July

2019
Festival of Print, The Art Pavilion, Mile End, 21 November - 1 December
Woolwich Printmaking Fair, Royal Arsenal, 7-10 November
The Late Shows: NewcastleGateshead, The Newbridge Project, 18 May
The Collective Studio: Work in Progress, The Newbridge Project, 8 February

2018
Bainbridge Open 2018, ASC Gallery, London, 9-15 June
Open Studios 2018, Euroart Studios, Tottenham Hale, 1-3 June

2017
Shacklewell Art Fair, Shacklewell Arms, London, 1 December
MA Printmaking Graduate Show, Camberwell College of Arts 13-19 July
Trials & Errors, Camberwell College of Arts, London, 20 May

2016
Press, Print, Pop-Up!, Camberwell College of Arts, London, 16 November, 2016
Treasure, RAUM Gallery, 1-6 November, 2016
MA Printmaking Interim Show, Camberwell College of Arts, London, 14-20 July, 2016
Work in Progress #2, Chairs and Coffee, London, May 11, 2016
INK & BIND #2, Camberwell College of Arts, London, March 23, 2016

2015
Work in Progress, Tom's Etching Studio, London, November 27, 2015
INK & BIND, Camberwell College of Arts, London, November 25, 2015
Deja Vu, Willesden Green Library, London, November 7-December 16, 2015
I Am My Prayer, Street Performance, Jerusalem, July 29, 2015

2014
In Progress: Stern College Senior Art Exhibition, Yeshiva University Museum, New York City, May 18-July 13

2012
Manhattan Graphics Center Juried Show, Manhattan Graphics Center, New York City, July 14-August 31

2009-2010
Congressional Art Show, Washington, D.C.

AWARDS
Pauper's Press Prize, Festival of Print 2019
London Art Events Prize, Festival of Print 2019
Oficina Bartolomeu dos Santos (OBS) Residency Award, July 2017
Kala Art Institute Artist-in-Residence Finalist, July 2016
The Shayndel Feuerstein Award in Literature and Art, May 2014
Kressel Research Scholarship, 2012-2013
Maryland Distinguished Scholar Talent in the Arts Finalist, 2010

RESIDENCIES AND PROGRAMMES
Fish Factory Arts Space, Penryn, Cornwall, August 2021
Which Way Now?, Clayhill Arts, August 2020
Cove Park, Helensburgh, Scotland, August 2019
Made Up School: Print and Matter, Rabbits Road Press, July 2019
The Collective Studio, The Newbridge Project, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2018-2019
Listhus, Ólafsfjörður, Iceland, August 2018
Stiwdio Maelor, Corris, Wales, February 2018
Oficina Bartolomeu dos Santos (OBS), Tavira, Portugal, August 2017
ChaNorth (Chashama), Pine Plains, New York, August 2015
Tent: Museums, New York City, January 2014
Contemporary Artists Center (CAC), Troy, New York, January 2013

WORKSHOPS AND TALKS
Cardboard Print Swap, School of Fish, Fish Factory Arts, January 2022
Cubitt Community Radio: Early Transmission, Slack's Radio residency at the Newbridge Project, January 2022
Nine Days, Interview with Charlotte Hampshaw of the Fish Factory, Source FM, January 2022
Lady Cynthia's Lover: A Queer Jewish Artist Retreat: Land-Based Art and Linoprinting, Sadeh Farm, November 2021
Holocaust Brunch Q & A with Tamara Micner and Diane Samuels, Arts Depot, October 2019
Building as Body: How do we take care of ourselves as creative practitioners?, Make Your Own Shift, June 2019
Groupshow: Season 2: Episode 1, curated by Caitlin Merrett King, April 2019
My Residency at Oficina Bartolomeu dos Santos, Camberwell College of Arts, November 2018

PUBLICITY
Interview with London Art Events
Newbridge Community Vlog
Groupshow Podcast
Holocaust Brunch in the Hackney Citizen
"Death Bed Practice" at Barberette
Residency at OBS on the Camberwell College of Arts Blog
Residency at Stiwdio Maelor
"Correspondences" in The Yeshiva University Commentator
"Correspondences" in The Yeshiva University News
JW3 & Limmud Present: It Says What?!? with Yael Roberts
Mortal Oil II Review on Misfit City

ASSOCIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS
Artist Union England, 2019 - present
Cubitt Studios and Gallery, November 2019 - present
East London Printmakers, Associate Member, February 2019 - present
The Newbridge Project, Associate Member, August 2018 - present

COLLECTIONS
Leo Baeck College Library