LARA RITOSA ROBERTS

Lara Ritosa Roberts is a visual and performance artist, trained at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design (MA Fine Art, 2007), Camberwell College of Arts (BA Sculpture, 2004) and Ecole de Mime Corporel Dramatique London (Prof Dipl. Corporeal Mime, 1998). In 2007, Lara founded the Performance Klub Fiskulturnik project, with a view towards exploring the relationship between visual art, movement, body culture and ideology within a performance art framework. Her work has been featured at many art events in the UK, including Tate Britain (2010 & 2012), Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade, Serbia (2011), National Theatre’s Watch This Space (2012) and Whitstable Biennale (2012). Lara often collaborates with international performance artists such as contemporary dancers, circus performers and actors. At the City of Women, she is joined by contemporary dancer and former German national rhythmic gymnastics champion Klaudia Wittmann and British circus performer Maddie McGowan.