The Colors In The White

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The Colors In The White by Alex Louisa

20″ diameter, 1″ thick panel, Oil and Acrylic on Wood

Current Exhibition at Flower Pepper Gallery: Xiong Mao from April 11th to May 12th, 2015

Previous exhibition at Flower Pepper Gallery: 3rd Year Anniversary Show from December 6th, 2014 to January 6th, 2015

Artist Biography:
Brisbane-based Alex Louisa graduated with a degree in Journalism and Creative Writing, before the need to create firmly pulled her attention back to her art. Having worked as a graphic artist for eight years, she now focuses solely on her personal work.

In 2008 she had her first solo exhibition at Jugglers Art Space in Brisbane, and has been involved in a number of group shows throughout Australia since then. Her work is now reaching an international audience as a member of the PRISMA Collective, showing with a selection of 30 artists from around the world. Her work has been published in Curvy and Semi-Permanent.

Often experimenting with mixed media, especially in the backgrounds of her works, Alex mainly works with drawing materials or oils, currently with a shift towards larger works. She focuses on elements of the natural world that grab her attention – discovering the intricacies of a leaf or flower, or trying to capture an animal’s individual personality, especially those of the avian kind.

Alex grabs every moment she can to work on her artwork, throwing herself into her painting or drawing any moment that her twin baby boys are asleep.

Artist Statement:
“I am a collector. I have a huge box of items that have been gathered through my wanderings – feathers, leaves, seedpods, lichen, shells, insects and bones – and I look forward to drawing and painting them all. By sharing the natural elements that captivate me the most, I hope to encourage everyone to take a closer look at their surroundings – whether it be a bird on a branch above their head, or the dried leaves beneath their feet – and to find the intricate details that may have previously evaded their eyes.

I have found that I like to take something very small, and represent it at a much larger scale so these details can really be exposed. By experimenting with a combination of soft-focus and highly detailed areas, I can draw the viewer’s eye to the area that captivates me most, like the tiny layered feathers on the wing of bird no larger than your thumb.

And it is always feathers that captivate me the most. My first word was ‘bird,’ and I have been enamoured with the creatures ever since.”

Prizes:
2017 – Finalist – Holmes Acquisitive Art Prize for Excellence in Realistic Australian Bird Art
2017 – Finalist – Lethbridge 10000 Small Works Prize
2016 – Finalist – Holmes Acquisitive Art Prize for Excellence in Realistic Australian Bird Art
2016 – Finalist – Marie Ellis OAM Prize for Drawing
2016 – Finalist – Lethbridge 10000 Small Works Prize – Highly Commended
2016 – Finalist – Stanthorpe Art Festival
2015 – Finalist – Lethbridge 10000 Small Works Prize – Highly Commended
2014 – Finalist – Lethbridge 10000 Small Works Prize
2013 – Finalist – Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize
2012 – Finalist – Marie Ellis OAM Prize for Drawing – Highly Commended

Publications:
2018 – The Moleskine Project Volume II – Spoke Art Gallery/Paragon Books
2015 – VIRTUOSOS of Paint – Out of Step Books
2015 – PRISMA Collective – Book 1
2015 – January Feature Artist – Trekell Art Supplies – www.trekell.com
2014 – Queensland Homes – Autumn – “Design Pilgrim – The Lust List: Design, Art Life + Style”
2012 – Semi-Permanent Book
2009 – Curvy 5

Artist Website: http://alexlouisa.com/

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