2021 , an outdoor sculpture exhibition in St Johns Churchyard Waterloo, part of the Waterloo Festival
2021 In Plain Sight, Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton Devon. www.thelmahulbert.com
2021 In the Dark, online exhibition dates tbc
Sound sculpture in development with Swedish composer Anna Svensdotter
Online discussions with the Brancaster Chronicles, several dates tbc
2021 This Stuff Matters Group Show, Cullercoats Gallery, Tyne & Wear, UK
Brighton Open House Weekend, Brighton, UK
2022 Brancaster Chronicles, Stroud Museum, Stroud, UK
Alexandra Harley
Biography
Alexandra Harley is a British sculptor best known for her immersive engagement with materials.
Harley studied sculpture at Wimbledon School of Art under Glyn Williams and Robin Greenwood, followed by the Advanced Course at St. Martins School of Art under Tim Scott. Her own teaching career is extensive, commencing with woodcarving in the Sculpture Department at City Lit in 1985 and over the years expanding into bronze, stone and life modelling.
Harley is the Ashurst Emerging Artist Sculpture Prize winner for 2021. She has been awarded prestigious fellowships in Japan and the USA, won the the Brian Mercer Fellowship in 2016, spending 3 months in the Mariani Bronze Foundry in Italy. Juried exhibitions for which she has been selected include the ING Discerning Eye, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Exhibition, Creekside Open, Cork Street Open and the London Group Open. She has also had public sculptures commissioned in the Caribbean, Europe and the USA.
Harley currently works out of her studio in Stratford, London.
Recent & Upcoming Projects
I am delighted and honoured to have been given the sculpture award by the Ashurst Prize with my sculpture Adaxka, above. https://www.artprize.co.uk/shortlist-2021.html The solo exhibition is on now until January 7th 2022, at Ashurst's Emerging Artist Gallery, in London. Ashurst, London Fruit & Wool Exchange, Duval Square, London E1 6PW, UK .
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Blake is on show now in The London Group Christmas exhibition. The show is on from the 8th -16th December at the Cello Factory, Waterloo, SE1 8TJ
http://www.thelondongroup.com/the-london-group-christmas-exhibition-2021/
Miller has been selected for the Linden Hall Winter exhibition. The show is on until 29th January 2022 at 32, St Georges Road, Deal, Kent.
I exhibited Birika in 'Coming up for Air', a London Group exhibition at Waterloo earlier this year, that can now be viewed as a fly-though, please see the video below. The close up shot of Birika is at 00:03:02
There is an additional shorter video of 5 minutes, which you can find here:
Images of Kintinkiri, Clymdych and Arossa at The Hague Art Fair with The Open Art Exchange
This Stuff Matters has been selected for an exhibition at showing at the APT Gallery, Deptford, London SE8 4SA. This will take place in March 2023. There will be a chaired discussion with Meghan Goodeve, 'Women in Abstraction'
The online show made during Lockdown and curated by Jill Gibson can be found at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTykvXmbeM0&feature=youtu.be
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The d'Artagnan Show took place at the Jeannie Avent Gallery in November 2021.
This exhibition united four acclaimed bronze sculptors, who are connected not only by material but through a shared foundry in Hertfordshire. Each sculpture exhibited will be a unique piece, created using the lost wax process.
Harley presented several small unique bronzes. With Terry Jones, Paul Bonomini and Steve Hodgson
This Stuff Matters is a collective of four established women sculptors: Alexandra Harley, Gillian Brent, Sheila Vollmer and Jill Gibson. They first met as a group in 2019, participating in an experimental mixed group show Testing 123..... at Unit 3 in London, curated by John Bunker. They have an exciting program of upcoming events, including an exhibition at the Cullercoats Gallery in Tyne & Wear, and the release of a recorded panel discussion. Please visit This Stuff Matters for further information.
Installation views: Opening Matters, a group exhibition by This Stuff Matters (January 2019). Photography by Peter Griffiths.
Professional Associations
The London Group was set up in 1913 by thirty two artists including Walter Sickert, Jacob Epstein, Wyndham Lewis, David Bomberg, and Henri Gaudier Brzeska. Today, it is a thriving democratic artists’ collective, practicing in all disciplines, with an exciting international programme of events and exhibitions.
Since her election in 2018, Harley has been an active member of the society and participated in various London exhibitions.
The Brancaster Chronicles are a series of recorded discussions made on the occasion of exhibitions of abstract painting and sculpture. Harley was a founding member of the project in 2013.
Each Chronicle is organised, transcribed and filmed by the relevant participating artists, and shown with photographs of the work to recreate the environment in which it was initially discussed.
The Royal Society of Sculptors was founded over 100 years ago in 1905 to champion contemporary sculpture. It remains an artist-led organisation that supports and connects sculptors throughout their careers.
Alexandra Harley has been an active member since her election in 2000. She served a term on the Board of Trustees 2017-2020 and has been selected for several member-only exhibitions.
Free Painters and Sculptors was established in 1952 and played a significant role in the establishment of London's abstract art scene in the 1950’s and 60’s, originally in association with the Institute of Contemporary Arts. This revolutionary ethos continues today among its diverse artistic membership.
Harley is a regular participant in FPS' biannual exhibitions at renowned central London galleries.