ALEXANDRA WILSON
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    • travel prize
      • corfu town
      • do you want to stand in front of those big doors for a photo?
      • tourist prize
      • polaroids
    • untitled (2019)
    • drawing boundaries: folding islands
    • a recipe book
    • I wish I painted birds
    • I conclude that all is well (Sisyphus)
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    • the observatory
      • two structures and one
      • white tack instruction
      • walking
      • Observatory breathing
      • "the presence of moisture"
      • covering (blanket)
      • the boredom of your observers
    • conversation with space
    • there's no such thing as boredom
    • watching paper dry
    • conversation with canvas
  • words
    • travel prize
      • travel prize: in discussion
    • substratum
    • there's no such thing as boredom
    • the Bethlem Gallery and Museum
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  • about
    • CV
  • news
    • instagram
    • facebook
    • twitter
  • works
    • travel prize
      • corfu town
      • do you want to stand in front of those big doors for a photo?
      • tourist prize
      • polaroids
    • untitled (2019)
    • drawing boundaries: folding islands
    • a recipe book
    • I wish I painted birds
    • I conclude that all is well (Sisyphus)
    • notice
    • the observatory
      • two structures and one
      • white tack instruction
      • walking
      • Observatory breathing
      • "the presence of moisture"
      • covering (blanket)
      • the boredom of your observers
    • conversation with space
    • there's no such thing as boredom
    • watching paper dry
    • conversation with canvas
  • words
    • travel prize
      • travel prize: in discussion
    • substratum
    • there's no such thing as boredom
    • the Bethlem Gallery and Museum
  • contact
Fine Artist alexwilson.artist@gmail.com
Bournemouth, United Kingdom.
The need to respond to an instruction or parameter has been developed further by my artist residency at The Observatory, ArtSway. Originally, reacting to materials that I took to the space - from paper, wool, to even the likes of canvases and paint, I realised that this was perhaps too comfortable. Successful but I was using the space as a place to work, a studio. It was a waste, valuable but a waste nonetheless. So, I began to look at the architecturally sophisticated structure as a tool/medium. The rust, condensation, charcoal burnt to keep warm, to the blanket used when working, the structure was alive and I wanted to capture it within my work. Using the residue and remnants of the space as materials to record and document with, I used audio recordings, mark making and installation to emphasise the traces that The Observatory was able to contribute to my thoughts and practical investigation. It became a collaboration with a space. Conversing in materials and textures, temperatures and by-products of processes that I enacted within its walls, it was a private theatrical performance that would only exist through my documentation of activity and inner-monologue.

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  • about
    • CV
  • news
    • instagram
    • facebook
    • twitter
  • works
    • travel prize
      • corfu town
      • do you want to stand in front of those big doors for a photo?
      • tourist prize
      • polaroids
    • untitled (2019)
    • drawing boundaries: folding islands
    • a recipe book
    • I wish I painted birds
    • I conclude that all is well (Sisyphus)
    • notice
    • the observatory
      • two structures and one
      • white tack instruction
      • walking
      • Observatory breathing
      • "the presence of moisture"
      • covering (blanket)
      • the boredom of your observers
    • conversation with space
    • there's no such thing as boredom
    • watching paper dry
    • conversation with canvas
  • words
    • travel prize
      • travel prize: in discussion
    • substratum
    • there's no such thing as boredom
    • the Bethlem Gallery and Museum
  • contact