Gerda Roper Paintings and Drawings

News – July 2021

2021

• I had two paintings in the Royal Cambrian Academy Show Annual Exhibition in April 2021, one of which, Dreaming of Dogs, was Highly Commended.
• My one-person show at the Museum of Modern Art Machynlleth opened at the end of May 2021 and continues throughout the summer until 21 August 2021.
  The show is part of Museum of Modern Art Machynlleth's Summer Festival of Women Artists, which is simultaneously showing Women's Art in Wales – a personal view curated by Jill Piercy, and Women Artists from the Tabernacle Collection – female artists from the permanent Collection, selected again by guest curator Jill Piercy.
  You can download a pdf of the catalogue for this exhibition here.
• The Welsh Group Exhibition Across Two Valleys has been rescheduled for 2021.
• I was in The Welsh Group's two shows: The Welsh Group in Lockdown in May, and will be in a live exhibition in the Attic Gallery in Swansea in October.
• I have been invited to be one of 12 artists represented by Cardiff Made in a new digital art directory and business plan.

2020

In 2020 and during lockdown many planned exhibitions could not go ahead and many galleries were closed with work in them. However, artists did still manage to bring some of our work into the public eye:

• I exhibited in Women's Art in Wales at Art Central Gallery, Vale of Glamorgan in March 2020.
• I exhibited three works in the July 2020 Virtual Welsh Group Lockdown Exhibition.
• I exhibited one painting – A Lost Childhood – in Cynon Valley Museum's online Exhibitions At Home from August 2020.
• I exhibited 14 paintings and drawings from September at the Aviary Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, which ran until April 2021.
• I exhibited works in Found Gallery's Twenty Twenty August Exhibition.
• I exhibited in two shows at Cardiff Made (an independent gallery in Cardiff): their Summer 2020 Show, and their more recent Spring 2021 Show.
• My work was included in Newport Museum and Art Gallery's virtual show Forty Years On Exhibition – from October 2020 to January 2021.
• Art in the Attic, Porth about drawing experiences in lockdown, August-September 2021.