ALEXANDRA HARLEY

Sculptor | UK

With a career spanning over thirty years, Alex has an extensive international CV including prestigious juried exhibitions. She was elected to the Royal Society of Sculptors in 2000, The Free Painters and Sculptors in 2014 and The London Group in 2018.  

Each material functions as both a starting point and a process, a core element and a guiding rhythm, through which I seek to capture and elucidate fleeting moments.

PORTRAIT

With a career spanning over thirty years, Alex (1958) has an extensive international CV including prestigious juried exhibitions. She was elected to the Royal Society of Sculptors in 2000, The Free Painters and Sculptors in 2014 and The London Group in 2018.


She studied sculpture at Wimbledon School of Art under Katherine Gilli, Robin Greenwood and Glyn Williams and then the Advanced course at St Martins School of Art under Tim Scott and Alan Gouk. She has been awarded several important fellowships in Japan and the USA and in 2016 was awarded the Brian Mercer Fellowship spending 3 months in the Mariani Bronze Foundry in Italy.


She has public work in the Caribbean, Europe and the USA. Juried exhibitions include the ING Discerning Eye, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Exhibition, Creekside Open, Cork Street Open, Wells Contemporary and the London Group Open.

With a career spanning over thirty years, Alex (1958) has an extensive international CV including prestigious juried exhibitions. She was elected to the Royal Society of Sculptors in 2000, The Free Painters and Sculptors in 2014 and The London Group in 2018.

She studied sculpture at Wimbledon School of Art under Katherine Gilli, Robin Greenwood and Glyn Williams and then the Advanced course at St Martins School of Art under Tim Scott and Alan Gouk. She has been awarded several important fellowships in Japan and the USA and in 2016 was awarded the Brian Mercer Fellowship spending 3 months in the Mariani Bronze Foundry in Italy.

She has public work in the Caribbean, Europe and the USA. Juried exhibitions include the ING Discerning Eye, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Exhibition, Creekside Open, Cork Street Open, Wells Contemporary and the London Group Open.



WORKS

CREDENTIALS

Selected exhibitions

2021
  • Undertow, OpenArtExchange, Schiedam, the Netherlands
2020
  • The London Group Annual, The Cello Factory, Waterloo London
  • Wish you /we were here/there, online exhibition
  • My Favourite Work, online exhibition
  • Isolation, online exhibition
  • ‘Feeling for Murmuration’, curated by Jilian Knipe, APT studio gallery,  London
  • ‘Women for all Seasons’, the Art Gallery, Elephant and Castle, London
  • ‘Stuff Matters’ recorded discussion and exhibition, Unit 3 Gallery London
  • Brancaster Chronicles group discussion, Poussin Gallery, London
2019
  • The London Group Open Exhibition, Part 2, Cello Factory, London
  • City Lit Gallery, London, inaugural exhibition London
  • ‘The London Ultra’ at the Bargehouse on the Southbank SE1 9PH.
  • EWAAC, La Galleria, London
  • Royal Society of Sculptors Summer exhibition, selected by Greville Worthington of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
  • ‘Parallel Lines’, The Lightbox, Woking Surrey, drawings inspired by the Ingrams Collection
  • ‘Impression’ printmaking exhibition selected by Chris Wood, Yellow Edge Gallery Hants.
  • Muse Gallery, Free Painters and Sculptors
  • ‘Testing 1,2,3….’ Unit 3. London E3 3LT
  • The London Group at Kensington and Chelsea College
  • Waterloo Open, St Johns Churchyard, Waterloo ‘Come hell or high water’
  • Small Works, Lemonade Stand, Sanger Gallery, Key West, Florida USA
  • ‘Micro’ Air Gallery Altrincham Cheshire UK
  • Q Park Year of the Pig, China town London, curated by Vanya Balloch
  • ‘In the Spotlight’ Morley Gallery, London
2018
  • Discerning Eye Mall Galleries, selected by Sadie Clayton
  • Wells Contemporary Open, Somerset
  • The Muse Gallery London FPS
  • The Bronze Show Morley Gallery
  • Felix and Spear Gallery Ealing, London, Summer exhibition
  • ‘Selfscapes’ Dalby Forest, Yorkshire
  • ‘Nothing Endures but Change’ The London Group, St Mathews Churchyard, London
  • Affordable Art Fair Hampstead with the FPS
  • ‘Embracing the Underdog’ Q Park, WC1 with the London Group
  • ‘Duo’ with Asayo Kawase, Posk Gallery London
2017
  • Discerning Eye, selected by Miranda Richardson
  • East West exhibition at La Galleria
  • London Group open part 2
  • Heritage Gallery, Greenwich with Brancaster Chronicles
2016
  • Brian Mercer Fellowship exhibition, Royal British Society of Sculptors
  • East West Exhibition, Pall Mall London October
  • The Brian Mercer Bronze Casting Fellowship, Pietrasanta Italy,
2015
  • The Stone Space, Leytonstone, exhibition with Alex McIntyre,
  • Creekside Open, APT Gallery London, selected by Lisa Milroy
  •  The London Group Open part 1, Cello Factory, Waterloo, London
2014
  • Café Gallery Southwark Park
  • Ing Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries,
  • ‘Naked’, FPS at the Menier Gallery
  • Missing Narrative, Free Painters and Sculptors Society, Menier Gallery, London
  • Kyoto Hachinosu Gallery, Kyoto Japan
  • Jarfo Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
  • The POSK show, 4 artists at the Polish Centre Gallery, Hammersmith London
2013
  • FPS at the Chocolate Factory, London
  • East West Award Exhibition, La Galleria, Pall Mall, London
  • Paper Free Painters and Sculptors Society at the Espacio Gallery London
2012
  • Then and Now 60th anniversary show of the Free Painters and Sculptors Society
  • East West Award exhibition, La Galleria, Pall Mall, London
  • Taiwan touring exhibition of wood sculpture: –
    Taiwan Sanyi Wood Sculpture Museum, Miaoli County,
    Taiwan Huanshan Creative Park Taipei,
  • Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
  • Bath Society Open, Victoria Gallery, Bath

Commissions

2009
  • Peace Pole carved for Desmond Tutu, Lewisham London
2004
  • UK representative to International Sculpture Symposium, Horb, Germany
2000
  • Carved seating for BBC “Charlie’s Garden Army” Peckham

Publications

  • Painting and Drawing Kate Wilson, Thames and Hudson, 2016
  • ‘Tim Scott’ catalogue essay for Poussin Gallery 2006
  • Sculpture illustrated in “Grand Designs” Oct 2005
  • Sculpture illustrated in “Sculpture” by Jane Hill, pub. Hodder and Stoughton, 1998

Other professional activities

  • Teaching at undergraduate and foundation level.
  • Initiator of This Stuff Matters www.stuff-matters.co.uk
  • Regular contributor to the Brancaster Chronicles discussion forum

Artistic residencies

2021
  • Self-directed residency Cantley, north Norfolk
2017
  • ‘End Polio Now’, Clayton J Lloyd international airport, Anguilla
2012
  • ICA Massachusetts, USA
2011
  • Andres Institute New Hampshire, USA

Collections

  • Andres Institute NH USA
  • Anguilla Rotary Club
  • ICA MA USA
  • Private collections worldwide



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