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Alicja Biała, Adam and Eve, from the series Open Bite, 2022
Exhibition
Acid Bite: Works by Alicja Biała
24 Mar 2025 – 25 Apr 2025
Regular hours
- Monday
- 09:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 09:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 09:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 09:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 09:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- Closed
- Sunday
- Closed
Special hours
- 29-Mar-2025
- 10:00 – 16:00
- 18-Apr-2025
- Closed
- 21-Apr-2025
- Closed
Free admission
Address
- 19-22 Charlotte Road
- London
England - EC22A 3SG
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- The nearest underground station is Old Street (Northern Line City Branch). The School is a five-minute walk away. The school is a ten-minute walk or a five-minute taxi or bus ride from Liverpool Street (Central, District, Circle, Metropolitan and Hammersmith and City lines).
- The nearest mainline station is Liverpool Street. Kings Cross and Euston are 2 and 3 stops away on Northern line. There are also overland trains to Old Street and Moorgate, both within walking distance.
The Royal Drawing School is proud to present a solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist and alumna Alicja Biała.
About
Presented together for the first time, the exhibition features works from the artist’s recent solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków (MOCAK), works that continue the themes explored in her commission for the Headquarters of the Council of the European Union, as well as works on paper created during her time at the Royal Drawing School.
The exhibition presents a powerful body of work that explores the interconnected themes of environmental degradation and ecological resilience, all while showcasing a remarkably innovative approach to materials.
Central to this is Biala’s profound exploration of drawing and etching, skills honed during her year at the Royal Drawing School. Works on paper from this period are displayed alongside her series, Beneath the soft ground, hard ground, where regenerative plants are etched onto mirrored brass, inviting viewers to reflect within an imagined healing garden.
Biała's command of these techniques extends to her powerful installations: Open Bite transforms classical imagery with acid-etched metal curtains, symbolizing environmental destruction, while Hyperaccumulators presents bronze nettle sculptures, celebrating nature's resilience and capacity to remediate human-caused damage.
Alicja Biała, based in Poland, the Netherlands, and the UK, works across a diverse range of media, including public installations, sculpture, painting, drawing, and etching. Her practice intertwines tradition with the political and personal tensions of contemporary life, critically examining our shared cultural past. Both speculative and interrogative, her work explores the formation of cultural identity and the impact of environmental degradation
A graduate of The Royal Drawing School’s postgraduate programme, The Drawing Year (2022), and the Royal College of Art (2023), Biała’s work has been widely exhibited and is held in numerous private and national collections.
Exhibition open to view:
Monday to Friday 9am–6pm & Saturday 29th March 10am – 4pm
Closed Easter weekend
Free entry.
Selected works are available for sale. For any sales enquiries please contact drawingsales@royaldrawingschool.org
Acid Bite is kindly supported by Maria Manetti Shrem
