Artist | actress | theatre maker

Conceptual fine art photographer Louise Alexander originally hails from the UK but has been living in Australia since 2019. Her surreal and dramatic images are informed by literature, myth and folk tale and are fueled by her 16 year long career as an actress and theatre maker. Louise believes all forms of storytelling are a unifying and universal language enabling our understanding of what it is to be human. Currently Louise is exploring themes of transformation, equality, human behaviour and emotion.

In 2020 Louise won the Emergent Designs award for the Mullins Australian Conceptual Photography Prize with 'Beige Chair'. Also in 2020 'Little Mermaid' won the Mandjar Art Award. Louise has exhibited work across Australia and in her home country over the last 5 years.

When not creating images Louise works as an actress on stage, tv and in film. She has recently filmed her first short in Australia and is looking forward to more to come. Credits include: Anna Wolkoff in Churchill and the Fascist Plot for Channel 4; deviser, actress and puppeteer in London Under for her theatre company Lama Creative; Singer in The Caucasian Chalk Circle for Shared Experience; Puppeteer of Aurora the giant polar bear for Greenpeace; Sarah Taylor in Last Flight to Kuwait for the BBC; Peaseblossom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream for The New Rep Company.

Career highlights':
2020 - Creating and exhibiting Paradigm of the Butterfly for CASM
2020 - Winning the Mullins Australian Conceptual Photography Prize, Emergent Design Award
2020 - Winning the Mandjar Art Award
2018 - Talking, performing and exhibiting at Open for Art by Jelly
2014 - Devising, creating and performing London Under at The Little Angel Theatre
2013 - Puppeteering Aurora - a polar bear the size of a double decker bus
2012 - Neverwhere research and development
2007 - Filming Last Flight to Kuwait for the BBC
2006 - Performing in Sweet Charity at The Theatre Royal Drury Lane
2006 - Performing promenade theatre on HMS Belfast
2004 - Attending The Bridge Theatre Training Company
2003 - Working as a singer / dancer for Warners
1999 - Recording a vocal demo CD at Henwood Studios
1991 - Attended the Royal Academy of Dance