Alexandra Frank

Born in Darwin, raised in North Queensland, I studied illustration first out of school, then in the Sydney and South Coast area had a varied artistic career in book design and illustration, painting and drawing, graphic design, fronted a North Queensland council gallery, worked in community art, including painting murals, with teenagers and in remote desert communities and in horse interaction therapy with young people.
I have had residencies and exhibitions in Vallauris, South of France and Bilpin north of Sydney and exhibited locally from Bowral, Canberra, South Coast and Wollongong.
I love naive and primitive art and have long been fascinated by the expressionists and surrealists.
Inspired by childhood images, dreams, mythology and metaphysics, I create animal-human-plant creatures. I'd like to think I'm a shaman of sorts, reconnecting with the divine source of all, which I mainly find in nature.

1986-88 Diploma of Art (majoring in Illustration) TAFE
College, Townsville

2008 Bachelor of Creative Arts (majoring in Visual Arts/Painting), UOW, Wollongong

2012-2013 Graphic Design Adv. Diploma, Karl Von Busse Institute of Design, Sydney
(Included a scholarship award art and design study trip in Europe, June-August 2013)

2006 Certificate IV Community Services/Welfare TAFE College, Ulladulla
2005-2006 Various social work workshops (Mental Health, Counselling, Suicide Awareness, Mentoring Young People, Aggressive Clients, Alcohol and Other Drugs, etc)

2010 Mediation Nationally accredited through ‘Mediate Today’, Alice Springs

2014-2015 Small Business Enterprise Certificate

2023 First Aid Indigenous Mental Health Certificate, current First Aid certificate.
2023 Horse Safety Accreditation, ARCH membership

GROUP ART EXHIBITIONS / REPRESENTED AT
2024 'Untitled' Group Exhibition - Central Coast
2024 Group Show @ Rusty's Rest Gallery, Escape Artsfest, Burrill Lake
2021-2023 various TYTO Regional Art Gallery group Exhibitions, Ingham; winner of the Hinchinbrook Art Award Painting Section Award 2022
2018-2020 various group shows, Project Contemporary Art Space, Wollongong
2019 A.I.R. Vallauris Artists residency and Exhibition, Vallauris, France
2016 Represented at ‘the hub’ Community Gateway, Wollongong
2015 Jaffa Cafe Wollongong, Artisans for Alzheimers
2010 Epiphanies Exhibition, Ryde
2008-09 Represented at The Artisans Co-operative, Ulladulla & Dharmik Trading, Milton
2008 Meroogal Women’s Art Prize, for Historic Houses Trust, Nowra
2008 Mental Health Awareness Art Exhibition, Shoalhaven Council Gallery, Nowra
2004-06 Lake Tabourie Art Show
2004 Represented at SEA, Ulladulla, Milton Ulladulla Hospital and The Tea Club, Nowra
2003 Represented at Gallery Seven, Nowra
2002-04 Bower House Contemporary Gallery, Milton (various group shows)
2002-04 Donovans Gallery Cottage, for Tabula Rasa Art Festival, Milton
2002 Represented at Kafe Bhakti, Milton
1999-2001 UOW Graduate Exhibition, UOW Exhibition for Tabula Rasa Festival, Milton
1998-99 Re...