ALEXANDRA BYRNE

BIOGRAPHY  

Alex Byrne’s interdisciplinary practice has focussed predominantly on sculpture and drawing but also includes painting, photography and print. Her work searches for ways to articulate experiential and often ineffable aspects of phenomena in the relationship between the natural and human world. In recent years her attention has turned towards aspects of the Environment and how we perceive our daily life relationship to the broader philosophies and environments of this age.

 “Essentially my work explores the constituent parts of a complex whole and the relationships between those parts whether literal, physical, symbolic and/or metaphorical. It is intrinsically an extension of my relationship with those things.”

 Alex was a finalist in the 2011 Dobell Prize for Drawing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. She has also been the recipient of the following prestigious awards: joint winner of the Open Sculpture Prize [AquaSculpture 2007], the Basil and Muriel Hooper Scholarship [2007/8], the Tom Nelson (Maritime Union of Australia) Artist Subsidy [Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2008], the A&E Metal Prize for Sculpture [COFA 2008], and in 2009 she was awarded a University of NSW Honours Year Scholarship where she completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts with First Class Honours at the College of Fine Arts. Alex is currently in the final stages of a Master of Fine Arts at UNSW Art & Design.  Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally and is held in private collections in Australia, Bulgaria, Hong Kong, the Netherlands and the USA.  Born in Sydney, Australia. Alex lives and works in Sydney but escapes to regional NSW at every available opportunity.

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Email: alexandra.byrne1@gmail.com