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Bio
As an emerging artist, Alexandra Linden would argue that time, and its companion, experience, have helped enable the evolution of her sculptural vessels, portraits and functional ‘artware’. Her works emanate a quiet maturity and an obsession with honing her craft, often resulting in immense and voluminous forms representative of her connection with the feminine. Evident in her work is a sense of play with texture, balance, strength & fragility, and a detailed, curious nature.
Receiving an Advanced Diploma in Applied and Visual Arts with a ceramics major (North Adelaide School of Art, 1999) followed by an Honours Degree in Fine and Visual Arts majoring in drawing and painting (University of South Australia, 2002), Alexandra places a high value on technique and education, evident in the careful, fastidious nature of her practice. Weaving her artistic calling through her career as an educator (Bachelor of Secondary Education, University of South Australia, 2003) Alexandra always preferred to teach via the tangible mediums of writing, painting and creation, working later in marketing roles where she created eye-catching illustrations, designs and labels for some of McLaren Vale’s most recognised wineries.
2021 was a year that brought change, challenge and clarity to Alexandra as she found herself irrevocably drawn back to the studio, a space where she feels innately herself as she creates. While she would consider herself unattached to any particular medium, her current artistic exploration resides in the tactile medium of ceramics; a grounding material, reinforcing the sense that she is returning home to herself. In clay she finds strength and versatility, embracing the joy of using an organic, primitive tool for expression and functionality, forming a conduit between earth and gravity while bringing structure and aesthetic to an amorphous medium.
Alexandra creates a line of functional and ornamental wares which can currently be found at The Jam Factory Adelaide and Fleurieu Arthouse McLaren Vale. She is building multiple bodies of work to exhibit and is regularly commissioned to create individualised, bespoke pieces.
Artist Statement
From the moment I began to speak, I was also making. Art has always been an extension of my language—a vital way of processing the world and offering something back to it.
For years I have felt a quiet pressure to rationalise my work, but the more I’ve reflected, the clearer it’s become: at the center of my practice is life itself. I am in awe of it—its exquisite contradictions, its fragile balance, its boundless intricacy. Life, in all its modalities, from the cellular to the cosmic, is my enduring fascination. It is simple and complex, infinite and impermanent, wild and orchestrated—worlds within worlds.
Much of my work is also a meditation on balance. I am deeply connected to the feminine and committed to the ongoing conversation around healing, safety, and equity. I am moved by the urgent need for environmental renewal, and the importance and preservation of intergenerational wisdom. These concerns aren’t separate from my practice—they are its undercurrent.
My process is intuitive and exploratory. I begin each piece with an intention rather than a fixed design, allowing the clay to guide me. This dialogue with the material—between strength and fragility, structure and collapse—invites a quiet kind of listening. I work in tension with gravity, attending to form, line, texture, shadow, and light, always seeking to distil a moment, a suggestion of movement, or a sculptural trace of life’s presence.
My practice is fluid, always with a desire to deepen, to refine, and to meet the edges of what I have not yet created.
Art is how I bear witness. It is how I stay in conversation—with the world, with others, and with myself.
