Petra Varl at the exhibition The Open West
Group exhibition

17. 2.-21. 3. 2010

Summerfield Gallery & The Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, Anglija

We would like to inform you about the participation of Petra Varl, an artist taking part in SCCA-Ljubljana project Internet Portfolio.

The Open West is an annual open competition and exhibition inviting submissions from national and international artists practising contemporary and conceptual art, inclusive of painting, installation, film, photography, print and sculpture.

In 2010 forty selected artists participate at the exhibition: Molly Behagg, Sara Bjarland, Karen Brett, Brownwen Buckeridge, Ivy Chan, Wan-Lin Chang, Min-Tzu Chao, Mi-Young Choi, Brian Crotty, Caroline de Lannoy, Ortelius Drew, Steven Edgar, Lucy Fergus, Patrick Gabler, David George, Eleanor Havsteen-Franklin, Aaron Head, Liam Hegenbarth, Fiona Hingston, Jang-Oh Hong, Conor Kelly, Sanghee Lee, Debbie Locke, Florence Alfano McEwin, Katherine Morgan, Simon Newby, Trine Olrik, Toby Poolman, Michael Roberts, Peter Roseman, Ione Rucquoi, Louise isik Sayerer, Indre Serpytyte, Sabrina Shah, Helen Sturgess, Masako Tobita, Petra Varl, Rachel Wright, Thomas Williams, Sang Yoon Yoon.

Petra Varl works as a visual artist in the area of drawing, graphic arts, painting, illustration and installations in galleries, public and private spaces. Her work Swimmer (drawing on glass, 2008) is included in the exhibition.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Petra Varl was born in 1965 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree from The Ljubljana Academy of Fine Arts in 1997. She has shown her work in numerous independent and group shows, including the Sao Paolo Biennial. Since the year 2000 she has been working as an Associate Professor of drawing and graphic arts at the Fine Arts Department of the Teacher’s College of the University of Maribor. She lives and works in Ljubljana and Maribor.