Courtesy: the artist and MARS Gallery, Melbourne.

As the son of an architect, Giles Alexander developed an inherent ability to translate the three dimensional world onto a two-dimensional surface. Nurtured within the illustrious walls of London’s National Gallery, he cultivated a deep appreciation for the transformative power of
painting to capture and transcend physical space and human time.

Alexander’s practice has always wondered about ‘us’ and asked how we find a sense of place in a landscape, in the world, indeed in the Universe? His work to date has explored ubiquitous themes of faith, reason, and the cosmos, always creating space for new work to extend an already decades long exploration into belonging and identity. It’s with this in mind that Alexander now pivots his artistic focus beyond the celestial to perhaps the most universal language of all – music…

Opening Event: Saturday 6 April, 4 – 6pm.

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