Alexandra Errington b. 1997 is a French/British Visual Artist based in London.
At the heart of her practice is a desire to animate our manufactured environment and explore the disregarded potential of domestic items. Through a practice of sculpture, she alters the order of synthetic materials and industrial waste, transforming them into enigmatic, organic compositions.
Her operations are fuelled by a fascination for evolutionary biology, microbiology, and the organisation of living forms. She is developing a speculative process of dissecting, bending and fusing matter, that hopes to mimic natural processes and bring intangible notions of growth and symbiosis to a more familiar scale.
She searches for images that are liminal, intersections between the man made and the natural, between scales and between meanings. Her ambiguous configurations hope to activate our associative thinking, and visually follow how one form can emerge from another.
EDUCATION
2019 - 2021
MA FINE ART, Chelsea College of Art, London (Uk).
2017 - 2019
BA FINE ART, Institut Supérieur des Arts de Toulouse (FR).
EXHIBITIONS
2023/2024
LIMINALITY, EYProjects inaugural exhibition, Beijing, Upcoming 2024.
A CONVERSATION WITH WATER, Curated by Eva Bra Barkardottir & Lorraine Snape, Hypha Studios, London, Jan-Feb 2024.
MARSUPPIUM, Curated by Darren O'Brien, ASC Gallery, The Handbag Factory, London (UK), Nov 2023.
ALTERED PLANES, Curated by Eva Bra Barkardottir & Lorraine Snape, Metre Squared Studios West Kensington, London (UK), April 2023.
2022
REBOND, Solo Exhibition, Le Confort des Etranges, Toulouse (FR), September 2022.
I CELEBRATE MYSELF PART III, Curated by Daren O'Brien and Geogios Mavridis, Lambeth County Court, London (UK), May 2022.
*ANNOTATIONS, Micro Residency and Pop-up Exhibition at Elephant Arcade supported by Meanwhile space & Gallery No.32, London (UK), May 2022.
AFIN QUE LA PEINTURE NOUS REGARDE, Usine Utopik, Basse Normandie (FR), March-April 2022.
CRUAUTES EXQUISES, Curated by Centre d'art Nomad's Françoise Lacoste & Elodie Sourrouil, Chapelle des Cordeliers, Toulouse (FR), Dec-March 2022.
2021
ETHEREAL REALITY, Virtual exhibition, Curated by Sofia Topchishvili, London (UK), October 2021.
C0?EXISTENCE, Curated by Sotheby’s Institute's Greta Caldera & Anastasia Lebega, CookHouse Gallery, London (UK), October 2021.
REVENGE OF THE REAL, RuptureXIBIT Gallery, Hampton Wick (UK), (upcoming) September 2021.
MA SHOW, Chelsea College of art, London(UK), September 2021.
2020
24/7, The Shop Front Gallery, London(UK), September 2020.
CONVENIENCE, Virtual exhibition(UK), May 2020.
COMMON OR GARDEN, The CookHouse Gallery, London (UK) April 2020.
CLIMATE CRISIS: SPECULATIVE FUTURES, Digital Showreel at the Horniman Museum, London (UK) March 2020.
ASHES TO PASSION, St Saviours Church Pimlico, London (UK), March 2020.
ASSEMBLAGE EXPERIMENTS, Workshop led by Lonnie Holley, Turner contemporary, Margate (UK), February 2020.
2019
UNIT, Chelsea College of Art London (UK), December 2019.
ENCOUNTERS, The Cookhouse Gallery, London (UK), November 2019.
BUREAU DE CHANGE, International Arts Festival, The Cookhouse Gallery, London (UK), October 2019.
DEPARTURE LOUNGE, Chelsea College of Art, London (UK), October 2019.
MIMESIS*, Musée Des Augustin/Ancient Reservoir, Toulouse (FR), May 2019.
2018
Gallery EXPRMNTL, Toulouse (FR), June 2018.
PUBLICATIONS
2020
MAFAZINE, Rods and Cones, November 2019 -August 2020.
https://rodsandcones.myblog.arts.ac.uk/page/2/
PRESS
2021
C0?EXISTENCE, Online press release by Greta Caldera and Anastasia Lebega, Sotheby’s Institute, 2021.
https://www.sothebysinstitute.com/news-and-events/news/student-exhibition-curatorial-projects-london
ASC STUDIOS ARTIST/MAKER SPOTLIGHT, Interview by Sophie van Well Groeneveld, 2021.
https://ascstudios.co.uk/artist-maker-spotlight/
CHELSEA STORY: BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE CREATIVE PROCESS, Online article by Grizelda Kitching, 2021.
https://www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/chelsea-college-of-arts/stories/
2020
CONTEMPORARY HYLOSHAPES, Online and paper edition by Pau Geis, 2020.
https://paugeis.com/Contemporary-Hyloshapes-ENG
GRANTS
2019
CECILE LEWIS SCULPTURE AWARD, September 2019.