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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, space 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
My practice centres on an exploration of movement, transformation, and consciousness as they surface within organic life—from the cellular to the cosmic. I am drawn to the tensions that shape existence; fragility and resilience, chaos and orchestration, stasis and becoming. These contradictions form the conceptual backbone of my work.
Clay is a medium and a language for me. I approach my practice through an intuitive, material-led process. Intention underpins each piece, which then unfolds through a dialogue between hand and medium, guided by its quiet feedback. I work with a sensitivity to gravity, seeking to capture a temporal fragment —an emergence, a gesture, a trace of a story held in suspension.
Themes of balance, motion, evolution, the feminine, and the quiet intelligence and beauty of organic systems weave throughout my practice. I am informed by broader conversations around collective healing, environmental renewal, and the transmission of intergenerational wisdom. These concerns are not external influences but part of the internal logic guiding my work.
At its core, my practice is an act of attention. Existence reveals itself in fragments—fleeting moments made visible through presence. My work seeks to honour these instances, capturing growth, tension, energy, and transition as sculptural forms.
As an emerging artist, my practice continues to refine—driven by a desire to meet what I am yet to create.
My work is how I bear witness. It is how I remain in conversation—with the world, with others, and with myself.
