Alexandra’s paintings juxtapose urban landscape within boundaries both limited and expanded by light. Each work is its own entity but comprise multiple constituent compositions with light, natural and artificial, the defining and amalgamating theme.
Having moved to her Red Hill ‘Renovator’s Delight’ 40 years ago, Alexandra deciphers the language of early Queensland’s vernacular architecture. Painted in a hybrid of illustrative and realism, the detail is achieved through revisiting a view multiple times on neighbourhood walks. A collection of photos taken over decades has become a reference library for that which is lost. The importance of the correct architectural detail stems from her own passion for restoration.
https://linktr.ee/alexandramatthews
Most recent Awards
2024
1st Prize – 31 West Chambers Inaugural $10000 Art Prize, Brisbane, QLD
2nd Prize – Royal Queensland Art Society, Brisbane Landscapes, Landmarks and Personalities, Petrie Terrace, QLD
Finalist – Clayton Utz Art Award, Brisbane, QLD (7th year running)
Artist Biography
Alexandra’s paintings juxtapose urban landscape within boundaries both limited and expanded by light. Each work is its own entity but comprise multiple constituent compositions with light, natural and artificial, the defining and amalgamating theme.
Having moved to her Red Hill ‘Renovator’s Delight’ 40 years ago, Alexandra deciphers the language of early Queensland’s vernacular architecture. Painted in a hybrid of illustrative and realism, the detail is achieved through revisiting a view multiple times on neighbourhood walks. A collection of photos taken over decades has become a reference library for that which is lost. The importance of the correct architectural detail stems from her own passion for restoration.
https://linktr.ee/alexandramatthews
Most recent Awards
2024
1st Prize – 31 West Chambers Inaugural $10000 Art Prize, Brisbane, QLD
2nd Prize – Royal Queensland Art Society, Brisbane Landscapes, Landmarks and Personalities, Petrie Terrace, QLD
Finalist – Clayton Utz Art Award, Brisbane, QLD (7th year running)
Finalist – Lethbridge 20000 Landscape Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
Finalist – Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Award, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane, QLD (10th year running)
Finalist – Brisbane Rotary Art Show, Brisbane, QLD
2023
1st Prize – Brisbane Rotary Art Show, Best Acrylic, Brisbane, QLD
1st Prize – Royal Queensland Art Society, Brisbane Landscapes Landmarks and Personalities, Petrie Terrace, QLD
Finalist – Clayton Utz Art Award, Brisbane, QLD
Finalist – Brisbane Rotary Art Show, Brisbane, QLD
Finalist – Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Award, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
Finalist – Lethbridge 20000 Landscape Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
Finalist – The Doyle Award, Mudgeeraba, QLD
Finalist – Royal Queensland Art Society, Petrie Terrace, QLD