EXHIBITION: Red, Blue, Up

Photography: Rob Harris

De La Warr Pavilion
Bexhill-on-Sea
22 February – 1 June 2025

Red, Blue, Up is a major new exhibition of paintings and drawings by Bexhill-based artist, Michelle Roberts. It features a wide selection of Roberts’ works from the last 15 years. Through this detailed yet joyful execution, her works are underpinned by her unwavering precision and control, as she dissects shapes, forms and patterns across canvas and paper.

For this exhibition, Roberts has designed a modular seating installation, inspired by the bold colours, perspectives, and textures that characterise her works. Several of these seats are embedded with laser-cut drawings taken from the artist’s paintings, adding a sensory dimension to the exhibition.

Playful, joyous, and intriguing, Roberts’ work asks us to slow down and take time to look and feel in the present moment. Through this exhibition, she invites us to explore each of her vibrant worlds, drawing our attention to the different ways that we remember and experience life.

Red, Blue, Up is programmed in collaboration with award winning arts charity Outside In, following the artist’s first prize win in its national open exhibition, Humanity, in 2023, and Project Art Works, a supported studio of neurodivergent artists and activists based in Hastings, of which Roberts is a member. Red, Blue, Up follows Roberts’ participation in DLWP’s 2015 group exhibition, In the Realm of Others.