Media Type
Formal concerns underpin the work. Art historical markers are treated like signs to deploy.
Biography/Details
Alex Dipple (b. 1967, London) studied Alternative Practice, later titled Fine Art Critical Practice, which was the first Conceptual Fine Art Media degree in the UK, at Brighton Polytechnic in the 1980s. In 2016, she graduated with Distinction as a Master of Fine Art from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London.
Alex started painting in 2024. Her practice makes a circular game of social media. Images of majolica plates, Picasso ceramics or Charles Ray sculptures are shared one minute, and become paintings the next.
Alex soaks up influence and here it becomes the driver of the work. Art historical genres and stylistics are treated like signs to deploy. Her recent focus is a contemporary take on cast drawing.
Completely self taught, her studio is a testing ground. Formal concerns weave through the work. Stripes and holes are recurring ticks, and phenomenal effects, smoke and shadows, populate the work.
This year sees her selected for the Royal Watercolour Society Open 2025, and she is doing the TURPS Correspondence Course 2025/26.
