About

Alex Beckinsale is an early career artist whose work is inspired by strange narratives, folklore, and popular culture. She graduated from Adelaide Central School of Art with a Bachelor of Visual Art (Honours) in 2016. She focuses on figurative art and portraiture, often constructing otherworldly and mysterious situations in her work.

Alex Beckinsale

29th of November 1994
Curriculum Vitae

Experience

2023 - present
Drawing Lecturer, Adelaide Central School of Art

2020 - 2023
Youth & Community Engagement Coordinator, Adelaide Central School of Art

2021

Art of Reconciliation Project, City of Port Adelaide Enfield + 
Channel 44

2019
Their Triumph Our Motivation, public art installation, City of Holdfast Bay
2018
New Zealand Pacific Studio Residency
2017 - present
Art History and Theory Assessor, Adelaide Central School of Art
2017 - 2020
Workshop Coordinator & Assistant, Adelaide Central School of Art
2016 - 2017
Co-creator of Verso (Online Arts Writing Platform): 
2016 - 2018
Primary writer for Verso:  
2011 - 2017
Art Teacher, Noah’s Art, Adelaide, South Australia,

EDUCATION

2016 - Adelaide Central School of Art, Bachelor of Visual Art (Honours)
2015 - Adelaide Central School of Art, Bachelor of Visual Art
2014 - Adelaide Central School of Art, Associate Degree of Visual Art

Prizes

2019-
10th Prospect Portrait Prize, Finalist
RSASA Portrait Prize, Finalist
Rectors Choice Finalist, St Ignatius Art Show
All Connections to Unley, Finalist

2018 -
Emma Hack Art Prze, Finalist
Fleurieu Biennale, Finalist
Percival Portrait Painting Prize, Finalist

2017 - RSASA Portrait Prize, RSASA Gallery, Merit Award

Solo Shows

2020 - Fragile Bodies, Floating Goose Studios
2017 - The day after the day, The Unley Museum
2012 - Into A Memory, Burnside Council Chambers

EXHIBITIONS

2019-
Keeping the Lights on, Floating Goose Studios
Wish You Were Here, Adelaide Central Gallery
Tenebrous, Stall 1195
St Ignatius Art Show, St Ignatius
SHARE, Onkaparinga Wollen Mill

2018-
Keeping the Lights on, Floating Goose
Fragments, John Harvey Gallery
Haunt Volume 1, Collective Haunt inc.
Percival Portrait Painting Prize, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
Wish you Were Here, Adelaide Central Gallery

2017-
Keeping the Lights on, Floating Goose
Near and Far, The Gallery at Pikes
Wish you Were Here, Adelaide Central Gallery
RSASA Portrait Prize, RSASA Gallery
Salon de Refusé, Arkaba Hotel
Wanderings, Uraidla and Piccadilly Wanderings

2016-
10 x 10 2016, Adelaide Central School of Art
Sensory Narratives, Adelaide Central School of Art

2015-
Salon Hang, Floating Goose
Typecast, Adelaide Writers Centre
10x10 2015, Adelaide Central School of Art
Propositions, Adelaide Central School of Art Graduate Exhibition, Adelaide Central School of Art

Writing

2018-
LOSING TIME
available: https://www.verso-art-writing.com/blog/2018/4/1/losing-time-observations-on-approaches-to-found-photography-in-the-wairarapa-region-new-zealand

2017-
TRAVELLING THROUGH HYPERSPACE AIN’T LIKE DUSTIN’ CROPS, KID.
available: https://www.verso-art-writing.com/blog/2017/9/23/travelling-through-hyperspace-aint-like-dustin-crops-kid
NAVIGATING REPRESENTATIONALISM
available: https://www.verso-art-writing.com/blog/2017/8/15/navigating-representationalism
A Divine Corruption, SALA exhibition Review
available: https://www.verso-art-writing.com/blog/2017/8/8/a-divine-corruption
VERSO INTERVIEW WITH JASMINE ANN DIXON
available:: https://www.verso-art-writing.com/blog/2017/3/24/verso-interview-with-jasmine-ann-dixon

2016- 
Second Hand Memories, honours Exegesis