Alexis Stevens

Alexis works with painting and small scale constructions in response to architectural spaces. Since a visit to Venice, she is particularly interested in exploring ambiguities between inside and outside space, which can also be seen as a division between internal and external, the imaginary and the real.

During her degree course at Falmouth Art College, she concentrated on painting, but latterly started to respond to a desire to move away from the canvass space and to work with the gallery space itself. She has started placing constructed objects within the gallery space, thus setting up abstract dialogues with the paintings and vice versa. This exploration of architectural space links in with her growing interest in psychology. Disjointed narratives are evolving in her work, which when combined with the abstract form of her work, give few clues for the viewer, but set up a sense of the uncanny.

These images are of work in progress.

Exhibition of work in progres

Her work was installed in the main gallery at ArtSway from 30 April until 19 June.

Images of the installation can be seen at Alexis' exhibition

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