All work on site © 2023
Jack Elliot Edwards
Portraits and work in progress © 2024
Steve Tanner
(b. 1992, St. Louis, Missouri)
Yael Roberts lives and works in London at Cubitt Studios. She makes large-scale expanded prints informed by drawing, collage and painting practices. These immersive works sit alongside smaller sculptures. She marks time spent in real or mythic places: days, months, or seasons spent at studio, on residency, at home, on land. Her practice evolves based on new experiences of time and place, and new bodies of work take shape through her experiences of travel and migration. She creates spaces that complicate our sense of seeing of and belonging to place. The work explores trace, trauma, mark-making, and the impact of our bodies on each other and on the earth, and mirrors the push and pull of relationship, asking the viewer to immerse in the work and then withdraw, in a constant search for home.
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Printing from found glass and wood, I carve into the surfaces of found objects, drawing from memory, dream, and reality, to prepare them for printing or assemblage. All of my printing is created by drawing on the back of the paper, both with my body and with writing implements and objects. The "prints" are "body-printed", recordings of drawings, of body, and of my experience in studio.
Influences on my work
Large-scale, immersive installation and the work of the Impressionists have heavily influenced me, specifically the use of perspective and the way my work asks the viewer to move to and from it. Drawing has been part of my daily practice since I was 5, and is how I perceive and interpret my inner landscape. My experience of land and land ownership is another direct influence. I was born and raised on Osage land. My ancestors come from Eastern Europe. My maternal grandparents were forcibly displaced or murdered in the 1940s following nearly 400 years living in Germany. My work is influenced by my experience of landscape not as home but as catalyst, and of my experience relating to land as both owner and visitor, from a place of both privilege and precarity.