Alex lectures in Communication Design at the School of Media and Communication. He conducts Drawing and Illustration lectures and workshops for first, second, and third year students.
Alex conducts Drawing and Illustration lectures and workshops to students from Singapore in semester 1.
Accomplishments
Victorian College of the Arts Traveling Grant 1986 Australia Council – Rome Studio Residency 1999.
Alex has been an examiner for the Masters of Fine Art program at the Victorian College of the Arts – Melbourne University.
Research
Alex’s research involves his creative practice. After completing his degree at the Victorian College of the Arts in 1985 he was awarded a Study Grant that took him to Europe. The following year his work was included in 'A New Generation Exhibition', at the Australian National Gallery in Canberra. The following are a number of exhibitions in which he has participated: 1999 Deacons Graham And James Art Prize at the Ian Potter Museum Melbourne, the Paris Art Fair in France in 2002, 'Other Cities' at the Latrobe Regional Gallery in 2004, and 'Rome Academici' in 2005 at the Monash University Faculty Gallery in Melbourne and at the British School in Rome.
Alex’s artwork is in the collection of the NGV, Lander and Rogers, Artbank, and the Deakin University Art Collection. In 1998 he completed his Masters of Fine Arts at the VCA – University of Melbourne after which he received an Australia Council studio in Rome. In 2008 he completed an art commission for the Melbourne Cricket Club, which hangs in the new members stand at the MCG. His most recent exhibitions were held in 2012 at the Italian Institute of culture in Melbourne and in 2013 at the Deakin University Art Gallery, Melbourne.
Alex has been teaching for more than 20 years. He has been involved in various community projects and has taught at Trinity Grammar School as well as The School of Early Childhood, Latrobe University.
Industry Experience:
Projects, commissions, collaborations, awards and affiliations-
2008 – Residency, Westbourne Grammar artist in schools project
1999 – Awarded, Australia Council, Rome Studio Residency – $10,000
1992 – Residency, Victorian Ministry of the Arts Artist, St Columbus artist in schools project – $2,000
1987–1988 – Residency, 200 Gertrude Street Studios, Melbourne, Victoria
1986 – Awarded, Victorian College of the Arts, Italian Travel Grant – $4,000
Research fields
3303 Design
Research interests
Visual Arts and Crafts, Film, Television and Digital Media, Design Practice and Management, Other Studies in Creative Arts and Writing
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.