Andrea Roberts

Unpicking Memories

After many years studying and teaching art Andrea graduated from Newcastle University with an MA in Fine Art In 2006.

She lives and makes her art in Northumberland, an area of outstanding natural beauty which has influenced much of her drawing-based work.

Her drawings are a form of visual diary and an important means of research from which new ideas continue to grow.

The sinewy shadows and outlines of her pen and ink drawn images of trees and branches may also be seen to reference the intricate arterial and nerve patterns of the human body. They are like traceries of time passing. Some are printed onto relevant local maps including the Elm tree opposite the King’s Head, Blyth.

Andrea’s textile drawings pierce their surfaces with mark-making stitches, unpicking memories and suggesting that fragility can also embody strength.
She has made connections with the King’s Head locals’ Book of Stories with its evocative quotations such as – ‘It’s the architecture pulling the memories out of me’.