Alex works out of her studio, The Light Factory, in Winchester, Hampshire, UK. With a BA in Fine Art Textiles from Loughborough College of Art and Design, and a Masters in Scenography for Dance from Laban Centre London, Alex’s work spans a wide range of disciplines. Past projects include performance collaboration with theatre practitioners producing and touring productions with her company Explosive Acts, 2001-2004. Installations such as ‘Drawn to Perform’ 2001, ‘Go Stand in the Corner’ 2002 and ‘Painted Sexuality’, 2003 explored the interaction of the act of drawing/painting, projected imagery and the live performer in venues across the South of England.

More recently Alex’s work has evolved into site specific explorations which rely on the human interaction with place, both past and present, to inform installations both permanent and temporary. ‘A Woman’s Place’ 2005-2007 used performance, projected imagery and painting to explore lives of women in Winchester, both ancient and contemporary, at the site of an old nunnery in Winchester and won two Artplus Awards for excellence in public art concepts. ‘Just Passing Through’ 2008/2009 is a permanent installation using glass, light and sound in the corridor which joins a shopping centre in Eastleigh, Hampshire, with a new leisure complex next door. Its themes relate to leisure and relaxation and were inspired by workshops with local groups. ‘Font’ 2010 located in Winchester Cathedral layers in a glass bowl the names of ancient inhabitants of a long gone abbey with the names of the people living on the site where it once stood, a soundscape sings the names as they would have been sung in the abbey 900 years ago. The concepts play with the idea of ‘Font’ as bowl and as typescript and identity.

Educational work includes work with school pupils to create artworks to enhance their environment, including ‘Hoardings in the Park’ at the Point, Eastleigh, ‘Cheer up the Bollards’ at Hamble Primary and she is a visiting lecturer in the Faculty of Arts at The University of Winchester, the School of Architecture at the University of Portsmouth and in the Scenography department at the Laban Centre London.