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Alex’s Finnish ancestry and his own voyages into the magical Finnish landscape are immediately evident throughout his work.  He describes mid winter in Lapland as ‘disorienting, beautiful and frightening, where the landscape melts into a long dark night revealing the harshness and enormity of nature’. Many of his works are indeed imbued with the contrasts of the blue and white; reflecting the magical twilight dancing on the snow.

 

The already mature handling of this young artist can be traced to his interest and knowledge of the works of JWM Turner and Caspar David Friedrich. The German master of the sublime informs Alex’s work at times with a strong sense of counteracting desolation and hope. Influences of Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko and Yves Klein are also identifiable in Alex’s yet a very powerfully individual style is emerging through his works, inviting us in to ‘a dreamy place of isolation; the place of one’s memories’.

 

Education:

Present -          MA Fine Art, City and Guilds of London Art School.

2005 -               BA (Hons) Painting, Camberwell College of Art London.

2002 -               Foundation, Chelsea College of Art London.

 

Exhibitions:

 

Solo Shows:

2010     Exhibited at Heathrow Terminal 5 for the London 2012 Olympic committee

2009     ‘Arctic Blue’, JP Jahan & Clase Contemp., St James’s, London, UK

2006     ‘Sinen Syvyys’, The Arts Gallery, London, UK

 

Group Shows:

2010 - (Forthcoming) With Orion Contemporary at ArtHelsinki, Finland

2010 - October – ‘Nordic Depths’, in assoc with Orion Contemporary, London

2010 - (Ongoing) Alterwalden at Shankill Castle, Ireland

2010 – With Orion Contemporary at the AAF, Brussels, Belgium

2009 – With Clase Contemporary at the Buy Art Fair, Manchester, UK

2009 - Shibui, The Centre For Recent Drawing, London, UK

2009 - The AAF, My Life in Art, London, UK

2008 - Side Show, Gallery Primo Alonso, London, UK

2008 - Metsässa, The Centre For Recent Drawing, London, UK

2007 - Alex Gough & Lee Maelzer, The Storefront Artists Project, Massachusetts, USA

2007 - Residency at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, London, UK

2007 - Trees, The Old Sweet Shop Gallery, London, UK

2007 - The London Art Fair, Pierroni Contemporary Art, London, UK

2006 - Landscapades, Undermilkwood Gallery, London, UK

2006 - Some Paintings, The Mashed Potato Gallery, London, UK

2006 - RSVP, The Mashed Potato Gallery, London, UK

2005 - M.P.L Finance, private collection exhibition, M.P.L, London

2004 - Anyone for Seconds, Centenary Gallery, London, UK