Giles Alexander | Mote of Dust
Giles Alexander’s painting practice thinks deeply about belonging and its dual expressions in culture and science. He asks how we find a sense of belonging in a city, in a country, in the world, indeed in the Universe? To date Alexander’s exacting work has peered through the lens of faith and reason, re- presenting spiritual and celestial spaces in equal measure. In holding a mirror up to the paradox that is our place in the world, his realist painting preoccupations attempt to offer both himself and the viewer pause and perspective amid these image omnipresent times.
Alexander’s work has been shown both locally and internationally, with major presentations in his native London, in New York, Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia. His work has been included in numerous art awards including the Archibald, Sulman, Moran and Blake prizes and are held in private and public collections around the world. Continue reading.
If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
Acrylic on cotton
117cm x 87cm
Illustrated: Giles Alexander: A Certain Fuzziness. Artists Profile, Issue 57, 2021, p.86
$17,000 incl GST
Acrylic on cotton
117cm x 87cm
Illustrated: Giles Alexander: A Certain Fuzziness. Artists Profile, Issue 57, 2021, p.86
$17,000 incl GST
Few Are Those Who See With
Their Own Eyes And Feel With Their Own Hearts
Acrylic on board
60 x 70 cm
Signed and titled verso
Illustrated: Giles Alexander: A Certain Fuzziness, Artists Profile, Issue 57, 2021, p.88
$9,500 incl GST
Their Own Eyes And Feel With Their Own Hearts
Acrylic on board
60 x 70 cm
Signed and titled verso
Illustrated: Giles Alexander: A Certain Fuzziness, Artists Profile, Issue 57, 2021, p.88
$9,500 incl GST
The Adoration Of Reason
Acrylic on board
70cm x 60cm
Signed and titled verso
$9,500 incl GST
Acrylic on board
70cm x 60cm
Signed and titled verso
$9,500 incl GST
Baby Steps
Acrylic on board
70cm x 60cm
Signed and titled verso
Illustrated: Giles Alexander: A Certain Fuzziness. Artists Profile, Issue 57, 2021, p.87
$9,500 incl GST.
'It’s almost as though Alexander has attempted a time capsule for the impending end of humanity – our attempts to capture knowledge – the vast library in Space for Reading, the search for our place in the cosmos in Galileo's crows nest, our tentative first steps onto the unknown terrain of the Moon in Baby Steps and our ever-going quest to find spiritual succour in churches and temples of all faiths. Alexander, it would seem, is determined to investigate any and all aspects of what may be described as a ‘hyperobject.’ In his recent book Hyperobjects Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World, Timothy Morton coins the term ‘hyperobjects’ to describe events or systems that are too complex, too massively distributed across space and time, for humans to get a grip on.'
Ashley Crawford, Melbourne based cultural critic, author, essayist and arts journalist
(It would be too much to point out that one of the Virgin’s symbols is the moon, complement to the sun which is Christ; she is the morning star, the star of the Sea – Ave Maris stella.)
Acrylic on board
70cm x 60cm
Signed and titled verso
Illustrated: Giles Alexander: A Certain Fuzziness. Artists Profile, Issue 57, 2021, p.87
$9,500 incl GST.
'It’s almost as though Alexander has attempted a time capsule for the impending end of humanity – our attempts to capture knowledge – the vast library in Space for Reading, the search for our place in the cosmos in Galileo's crows nest, our tentative first steps onto the unknown terrain of the Moon in Baby Steps and our ever-going quest to find spiritual succour in churches and temples of all faiths. Alexander, it would seem, is determined to investigate any and all aspects of what may be described as a ‘hyperobject.’ In his recent book Hyperobjects Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World, Timothy Morton coins the term ‘hyperobjects’ to describe events or systems that are too complex, too massively distributed across space and time, for humans to get a grip on.'
Ashley Crawford, Melbourne based cultural critic, author, essayist and arts journalist
(It would be too much to point out that one of the Virgin’s symbols is the moon, complement to the sun which is Christ; she is the morning star, the star of the Sea – Ave Maris stella.)
The Dawn Of Man
Acrylic on board
28cm x 30cm
Signed and titled verso
$3,950 incl GST
Acrylic on board
28cm x 30cm
Signed and titled verso
$3,950 incl GST
Pink Moon
Acrylic on board
Signed and titled verso
28cm x 30cm
$3,950 incl GST
Acrylic on board
Signed and titled verso
28cm x 30cm
$3,950 incl GST
The Sky Is Falling In
Acrylic on board
Signed and titled verso
28cm x 30cm
$3,950 incl GST
Acrylic on board
Signed and titled verso
28cm x 30cm
$3,950 incl GST
Nothing Like The Sun
Acrylic on board
Signed and titled verso
28cm x 30cm
$3,950 incl GST
Acrylic on board
Signed and titled verso
28cm x 30cm
$3,950 incl GST
