Alexandra Standen is an Australian artist who explores the potential of clay as a ceramic form; subverting the long-held association between ceramics and utilitarian function. With graduate and postgraduate degrees from The National Art School (2011) and UNSW Art and Design (2018) respectively, Alexandra has also undertaken a number of artist residencies; most recently at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris and previously in Tel Aviv, Geneva and Istanbul.
Alex makes things with her hands. The repetitive gesture of ‘pinching’ her hand-built forms is as much conceptual as it is an an act of realisation. The conversation between materiality and form is ever evolving with intuition and experimentation in equal parts leading to the creation of Alexandra’s forms.