Alba Botines

Alba Botines is a Spanish-British artist based in London.

Alba holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art (2023). She previously graduated with a First-Class Honours in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London (2022) and a Foundation Diploma at City & Guilds of London Art School (2019). She also holds a BA in English and Literature from Univesitat de Lleida, Spain and was awarded an Erasmus scholarship at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris for nine months.

She was recently shortlisted for the Fribourg Philanthropies Prize 2023. One of her artworks was featured in The Pluralist, Stories of In-Between (2023) https://www.thepluralist.world/past-issues/stories-of-in-between/thin-place

to become (anything) in the painting

to sense mutating spaces and landscapes

to perceive magical realities

My paintings are the navigation of desire in the worldmaking of imagination. I construct imaginary spaces, places and landscapes that explore ideas about worlds of chaos, structures, decay and growth, transition to a new paradigm, a reflection on the liquid society we live in where everything changes and it cannot keep its shape; and the interconnectedness between species. We are nomadic subjects.

I am interested in the Deleuzian idea of becoming. I am excited about the becoming of something that grows out of nothing, I am also interested in the sensations and intensities. Every painting is a new beginning for me, a new desire, a new excitement and a new experience.I enjoy the surprise of colours, lines and marks interacting and producing tension and contrasts. Every painting challenges me to asks questions and it's a new opening to something else.