William Alexander

My painting practice is both a search for subject and means of expression. I am working things out on the canvas. I may start with a clear idea and vision
but am open to dramatic changes of late to let meaning evolve. These paintings submitted concern themselves with a particular place or space but each
relate to others painted at other times. The place may not be very solid and it may not be very clear but when the painting is finished, a certain number
of things have happened with the paint on the canvas dictated by the narrative of that place/space.

For the past year I was trying to deal with the locality in which I found myself, a residency at Trinity Buoy Wharf. Though I made some paintings directly
referencing the place, for me in the end it was more important to turn inwards or away and take myself off to a place once visited, imagined, or a
psychological space within the mind.

I am also developing and deconstructing a sculptural practice and trying to see if and where the two practices could intersect.

In painting I have looked for subjects which stir emotion in me and styles which compliment that emotion. I try to evolve but there is always something
rooted to form and colour which I come back to. ...

1999-2001 BA Honours Fine Art, University of Central England
1994-1997 BA Honours Geography, University of Liverpool

Solo Exhibitions

2017: Fortezza del Girifalco, The Cardboard Gondolier, Tuscany, Italy (permanent)
Forest Gate Arts, The Cardboard Gondolier, London
2015: Hundred Years Gallery, Looking at the Infinite, London
Stephenson Museum, Rocket, North Shields
2014: Bouillon Kub, Reinventing The Wheel,Normandy, France
2013: Trinity Buoy Wharf, Boarding Card, Docklands, London
2010: Total Kunst Gallery, Nearly Dry, Edinburgh,
Model Gardeners, Double Trouble, Stoke Newington, London
2009: TwoAndFor Gallery, In a State of Repair, Archway London,
Jealous Gallery, Icecreamvanman, Crouch End, London,

Group Exhibitions
2021 Mission To Mars (Interactive Exhibition and Workshop) with Steamco, Camp Bestival
2020 BK 30, Bouillons Kub, Normandy France
2018 Chairs, Q Park Cavendish Square, London
2017 The Crash, Q Park Cavendish Square, London
2016 Tripp Gallery, What do you think its Going to be then, Camden, London
2016 Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition, London
The Gate Library, Curator and Exhibitor
2014 The Cultural Spring, Street Art Heroes, Bic Northeast, Sunderland
2012 Herrick Gallery, Plate Exhibition, Shoreditch, London
A-side B-side Gallery, Albert Square, the artists move in, Hackney, London
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