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Apocalypse Beach - Limited Edition 1 of 5 on Aluminium Collage

Alexandra Gallagher

United Kingdom

Collage, Paper on Aluminium

Size: 23.2 W x 33.1 H x 0.4 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Collage 594 x 841mm Signed Limited Edition on Aluminium. Print run of 5 only My collages based on how a lot of us now live a lot of our lives through the Internet, wether it’s banking, shopping, social networking, hobby or porn we seem to spending an increasing amount of time in a virtual world. I asked myself what would this virtual world we called the Internet look like if we could see it physically? In which intelligence is widely distributed across the landscape. Where you can be anything or anyone. How would the virtual “Global Village” look in the physical world? We put up so much of ourselves onto the internet without really thinking. We give more of ourselves up than we would normally face to face and everyone starts out on a level playing field. Our religion, our ethnic background, our wealth, successes, our sexuality, how we look, our gender, our politics do not matter and there is something for everyone, even the darkest and the most twisted. There is an infinite amount of information and opinions from all over the world, from every type of person. It’s not limited in the same way to governmental, political, religious or economic agendas. With the computer screen being a metaphor for the window in which we view this world. Humanity’s intellectual world, rather than it’s physical. I wanted to be able to visualise and imagine this in a physical sense. The collages are made up from found images through web search engines.

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Collage:

Paper on Aluminium

Original:

One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

23.2 W x 33.1 H x 0.4 D in

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Award winning artist Alexandra Gallagher was born 1980, Manchester, England Award winning artist Alexandra Gallagher is a British multidisciplinary artist, who's work takes the form of collage, street art, prints, photography and painting. Gallagher’s work celebrates the surreal and sublime. ­Between the realms of memory, dreams and experience, her work looks beyond our subjective limits and often tells a story of inner imagination and thought.Often working within a series, each piece is visceral and organic, the artist never knowing how each piece will transform. Exhibiting and selling both across the country and internationally, she has been nominated for a number of awards. Shortlisted for the Zealous X, she was awarded the Saatchi Showdown Surrealism Second Place Winner and the Secret Art Prize Runner Up Winner 2016. Her recent achievements include being a London Contemporary Art Prize 2018 Finalist and being shortlisted for the Rise Art Prize. "If New York’s Lower East Side went Rococo, it’d manifest as Alexandra Gallagher’s sleek, trippy, succulent collages. The British artist wields Photoshop like a technicolor sword, slashing up images of flora and fauna into compositions framing subjects sylvan as Kate Moss with backgrounds evoking equal parts zodiac and mod design. Flamingos worthy of Miami gardens cavort alongside landscapes worthy of Kurt Vonnegut, but both share Gallagher’s common touch of the metallic, the lucid, and the unabashedly chic. It’s Leda and the Swan meets punk rock, which is perhaps why Gallagher lists Artemisia Gentileschi as an influence, despite the seeming gap between their works. “The inspiration behind my work is our experiences as women in western society ... but I didn’t want to put something out there that’s obvious or brutal, I wanted to create something beautiful out of something ugly, but still give a voice,” Gallagher says. Her myriad layers of symbolism, feathers and faded limbs produce a synesthesia of both synthesizers and harpsichords worthy of Artemisia’s admiration - from one woman who wielded formidable swords to another" (Written by Lauren Amalia Redding)

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