Alex Simpson
Soapbox
Gouache on Paper
400 x 500 mm
The Door
Porcelain, and underglaze
150mm x 280mm
Mouses
1 Colour Risograph print on paper
420 x 297 mm
Red nosed Liars
Porcelain and glaze
120mm x 150mm
Alex Simpson is a multi disciplinary artist based in London who works intuitively across painting, sculpture, printmaking and animation. Her work centres around personal narratives that are played out in worlds of melancholic children and strange creatures exploring their relationships with loss, fear and the unknown.
At the core of Simpson’s practice is painting – a dialogue between artist and medium – in which she invites spontaneity to bleed out her delicate figures into washes of ink. More recently Simpson has begun to work with ceramics – sculpting three dimensional counterparts to her gouache apparitions – rigorous experiments with glazes has helped her retain the textural flow of painting in this new medium.
2007 – 2010 University of Brighton, BA (Hons) Illustration. First.
2006 – 2007 Alton College, Foundation. Distinction.
24 – 27th November 2011
The Other Art Fair, Bargehouse, London
26th Oct – 9th Nov 2011
75 Peters, Space, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Australia
5 – 27th August 2011
Murmurs, The Horse Hospital, Bloomsbury, London
8 – 12th July 2010
B.I.G, Rochelle School, Arnold Circus, London
5 – 10 June 2010
Hook, Line and Sinker, University of Brighton
2011 John Vernon Lord Sketchbook Prize
2006 ADFAS Scholarship
