About Albert
Albert Bluett B-C is a multidisciplinary artist based in the North East of England. He completed his BA and MA in Visual Fine Arts from the University of Sunderland with distinction.
Albert pairs contemporary influence and styles - placemaking and mural painting, digital drawing, experimentation and distortion, reinterpretation, collage, and graffiti writing elements with a developed base of classical approaches - anatomy studies and life drawing, portraiture, lino printmaking, compositional studies, master work copies, and landscape studies all drawn from classical artists and methodologies. These act in conjunction to produce works with a primary focus on creating visually and culturally impactful works.
Albert Bluett B-C, photographed by Claire Louise, as part of her series ‘Behind the Art’, exhibited in Sunderland’s Keel Square, April 2025.
Albert maintains constant development in Painting, Drawing, and Collage practice through constant iteration, methodological experimentation, focused art research, and public installations and exhibitions.
With a methodological and theoretical eye on both the juxtapositions and attempted reconciliations of Classic and Contemporary methodologies, visual aesthetics, and philosophies, Albert explores universal and existential human themes through his work.
Whether it be war & peace, Truth & Justice, Philosophy & Knowledge, Trauma & Healing, or Spirituality & Religion, his work is brought up with a constant consumption and reflection of ideas that envelop the human experience, while being grounded in personal and community roles, contribution, and experiences.
Albert is currently working as Facilities Assistant with North East Museums; where his role involves supporting the day-to-day running of the Laing Art Gallery (Newcastle), Hatton Gallery (Newcastle), and Shipley Art Gallery (Gateshead).
Previously, Albert has worked at the Antony Gormley studios as a studio assistant, the group Art of Protest on local development projects in his home city of Sunderland.
He has hosted, curated, and invigilated two solo exhibitions since leaving university in Port Independent and in the Sunderland Keel Square Pavilion, as well as participating in various group exhibitions and establishing and participating in the MALGA collective.
Albert is currently represented by Pink-collar Gallery, and works with them alongside Harbour Printworks as a resident artist and creative, producing works and commissions and hosting and facilitating exhibitions, creative workshops, and market stalls.
Albert featured on our first ‘Show & Tell’ episode - released back in November 2024 - and has been a frequent presenting artist at our Show & Tell events ever since.
“In my MA, I was stressed all the time. Doing, painting, everything I saw, felt, did, was all over the place. Definitely not necessarily a healthy creative endeavour, but [sketch-booking in public] was cathartic, and it allowed me a good chance to put everything you think and feel out.
“I still worry. The anxiety, and the overwhelming, and the “will people accept me?” “Will I belong to something?” “Will people recognise in these things what I feel in them?” “Can I share with these people in these things?”
Albert passed around sketchbooks that were teeming with life; on each page a different exploration, a different take on that desire to share.
“If you totally lay out who you are, and what you're pursuing, and what you're interested in, and other people are doing that, you'd hope you'll touch wires, and you'll feel connected to something, and you'll feel like you belong to something.”
Always insightful, always enthused by some new concept, or bedevilled by some creative problem to unpick. Albert is an exceptional and supportive member of our creative community, a truly generous soul, and a joy to know as a person.
“That's why I come here. That's why I come to Port Independent. It's the atmosphere. I hadn't felt comfortable in public in years. And I came and sat in here for a day and I was like, you're not going to see the end of us now.
“It is the up and down, the slack, the five months off, the getting back into it because that's what you can do now.
“No shame. No pressure. […'] Just pursue what you're trying to do, you know? Oh, there's a quote!”
Release Date: Sunday 3rd November 2024
A Jay Sykes Media podcast