SEASON 8, EP. 4 Fiona G Roberts

Fiona G. Roberts lives and works in London. She has an MA, Painting, from Wimbledon College of Arts, University of the Arts London, where she was awarded the Vice Chancellor’s Scholarship. She has also completed two years at the Turps Banana Painting School (2019-2021) on the offsite painting programme. She has had work shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize; Ingram Collection’s Contemporary Talent Prize; Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, 2018 and 2019 and Dentons Art Prize, where she was runner-up and also won the Staff Prize.  She was also shortlisted for the Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize 2021 and the 2021 Figurative Art Now Exhibition, where she was awarded a Mentorship Prize. Her work has been exhibited in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2021, 2023 and 2025. She also has degrees from the LSE and Goldsmiths, University of London.

Select group shows:

• Blusher, curated by Cathy Lomax, De Montfort University 2025
• Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2025
• L’Espace Entre Deux, NG Art Creative Residency, Provence, France 2025
• A cage went in search of a bird, Vivienne Roberts Projects, London 2024-2025
• ING Discerning Eye, by invitation of Paul Carey-Kent 2024
• Carnevale, Vivienne Roberts Projects, London 2023-2024
• Blink, Room Share, Safehouse, Peckham, London 2024
• An Exhibition of Small Things with Big Ideas, White Conduit Projects, London 2023
• Don't Look Back, Vivienne Roberts Projects 2023
• Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2023
• One World, Aleph Contemporary 2023
• Winners: Award Winning Artists, Mall Galleries, London 2022
• Two Doors, Tart Gallery, London 2022
• A Room of Her Own, Irving contemporary, Oxford 2022
• Between the Bars, Terrace Gallery, London 2022
• Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London 2021
• We Are Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On, Aleph Contemporary, London 2021
• Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize exhibition 2021
• Figurative Art Now exhibition, London 2021
• ING Discerning Eye, by invitation of Jo Baring 2020
• ‘Ways of Protest, Elysium Gallery, Swansea 2020
• Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize exhibition 2018-2019
• Jerwood Drawing Prize exhibition 2018
• Dentons Art Prize exhibition 2018 
• Painting [Now] (a survey of current practice) Studio One Gallery, London 2017.
• Ingram Collection, Contemporary Talent Prize exhibition, London 2016
• The Sunday Times Watercolour exhibition, Mall Galleries, London 2016
• Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, 2016

Roberts’ work is found in several national and international collections including The David Roberts Arts Foundation.

Special mentions: Vivienne Roberts Projects, Turps Banana and LSE

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