Alex’s award winning smaller-scale sculpture has been on show in many galleries including Flinders Lane Gallery, Living Arts Space in Bendigo, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Lost Ones in Ballarat, Stockroom in Kyneton, Lot19 in Castlemaine and Yering Station in the Yarra Valley.
Larger scale works include Spherophyte and Nebulous installed in Melbourne for White Night 2017; Small Revolutions, a rolling ball sculpture with interactive, kinetic and multimedia elements, commissioned by Melbourne Fringe Festival for Federation Square; Material World, a house sized immersive installation, again commissioned by Melbourne Fringe Festival for Federation Square; and kinetic and other large installations at Upstream in Wodonga, Real Festival in Sydney, Strawberry Fields Festival in Tocumwal, Spilt Milk Festival in Canberra, WOMAD, Rainbow Serpent Music and Arts Festival, Stringybark Sustainability Festival, The Outback Eclipse Festival, Earthdance International Peace Festival (at multiple venues in Melbourne and Sydney), and many other music and arts festivals.
Permanent works include the major kinetic sculpture, Djalgala Yarra, commissioned for Blacktown hospital, Sydney, an interactive tactile fountain for the SCOPE Chelsea Day Centre for people with cerebral palsy and a dinosaur ant sculpture at Poochera, S.A. as well as sculptural lighting installations for Japanese restaurant Wabi Sabi in Fitzroy and St Kilda; and many other pieces of sculpture, furniture, metal work and lighting installations.
Projects in schools include a Creative Learnings Partnership residency at Rainbow P-12 school culminating in the installation of a kinetic sculpture and various work supporting arts programs or creating entrance features, gates and sculpture including at Merri Creek Primary School, Wattle Park Primary, St Michael’s Grammar, Brunswick South West Primary and Melbourne German International schools and others.
Alex’s primary medium is steel (including stainless steel), for its strength, versatility and modesty, and because it lends itself to so many different techniques and applications. Alex also uses other metals, timber, plastics, stone and electrical and mechanical components where appropriate. Techniques used include fabrication and machining, welding, woodworking and a little blacksmithing. After initial sketching and concept development, CAD is used extensively to help fully imagine and plan complex moving 3D structures and how they will relate to their intended site.
Alex also works under the name of Metaform, particularly for music festival and architectural metal work projects.
We acknowledge the Dja Dja Wurrung People as the Traditional Custodians of the land we live and work on and recognise their continuing connection to the land and waterways. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging and extend this to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.
Alex is committed to minimising his practice’s impact on the environment, particularly with regard to climate change. Both his studio and house are 100% powered by solar (grid connected, averaged through the year). Projects are designed carefully to minimise consumption of new resources and to re-use materials and parts where possible. Very little waste is generated, most of which is steel and easily recycled. Further opportunities are always being sought and reviewed to offset emissions from his practice.
Benalla Kinetic Sculpture Commission (Not yet confirmed but is out for public comment – see link below if you live in Benalla) The piece is intended to commemorate the life of Arthur Baird who grew…
Horsham Riverfront Sculpture Commission Very excited to be starting work on a sculpture commission for the banks of the Wimmera river in Horsham. It will be situated in a central meting place in the middle…
Yering Station Sculpture Exhibition and Awards Opening – 2022 After working for much of last year on my kinetic sculpture, Manifold, and installing last week at Yering Station in the Yarra Valley, the opening is…
Yering Station Sculpture Prize 2021 Very excited to be selected as a finalist in the Yering Station Sculpture Prize 2021. I’ve been working for much of this year on my new piece, Manifold for the…
Every Artist Ever – Exhibition at Stockroom Gallery Excited to have a piece in the Every Artist Ever Show at Stockroom Gallery in Kyneton. Invite from the gallery: OPENING : SAT 3 JULY, 4:30PM We…
Murmuring mk2 kinetic sculpture – work in progress Some work in progress pics of my little whimsy, Murmuring mk2. In a similar theme to Murmuring, it’s very much inspired by the massed flight of starlings…
Some night shots of Spherophyte Kinetic Sculpture in Ballarat Spherophyte stay in central Ballarat is over, but here are some night shots! It was right next to Queen Victoria in the middle of Sturt St…
Spherophyte Kinetic Sculpture in Ballarat Very excited to have installed Spherophyte in central Ballarat, right next to Queen Victoria in the middle of Sturt St and opposite the town Hall. It will be there though…
Merri Creek Primary School Gate I was delighted to go back to Merri Creek Primary School and design and build a new custom gate and panels for a new building. Merri Creek was the site of…
Upstream Festival – Flow States art installation Over the Labour day long weekend in March, Nici Wright and I had a great trip up to Wodonga for the Upstream Festival jointly put on by Wodonga…
Alex is fascinated by kinetic sculpture that can be touched and played with, in which movement and interaction drive engagement and participation.
Alex loves to build giant kinetic sculpture, focal points for contemplative wonder, or mesmerising, energetic and euphoric centrepieces.
Drawing upon his sculptural aesthetic, Alex designs and makes gates, lighting and all manner of artisanal and architectural metalwork.
