Alex Walker is a trained darkroom photographer based in Naarm/Melbourne interested in expanded photographic theory, analogue processes and spatial perception.
Expanding on the literal meaning of photography as ‘drawing with light’, Alex explores the moment of image capture and extends photography to its limits by reducing it to its core elements: light, space and perception.
As well as traditional photographic methods, Alex employs projection and installation to expand the photograph beyond its two-dimensional form into a physical and phenomenological, bodily encounter.
Alex is a PhD candidate at Monash University and has a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours from the Victorian College of the Arts. Alex will present two solo exhibitions this year at PhotoAccess (Canberra) in April and Void_Melbourne in July.
Selected exhibitions include: Denouement, Void_Melbourne; The light draws along..., Incinerator Gallery, 2024; Anti-lens (with Daniel O'Toole), Blindside; Denying Eye, MARS Gallery’s Art at the Bank, 2023; a-field, Heide MoMA, The Image Unfolds Again, Collingwood Yards, The Image Unfolds, Seventh Gallery, 2021.
Alex was recently featured in the 2025 Art Collector magazine issue Things Collectors Need To Know, and was a finalist in the National Photography Prize 2024, Bowness Photography Prize 2024, Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize 2023 and Exposure Photography Prize 2017.
Alex has completed residencies at Lake Macquarie Arts, Quality, Studio 26, Testing Grounds and Centre for Projection Art.
Some of the artworks on this site are for sale, Alex is also open to collaborations and commissions, for enquiries please email alexandra.walker18@gmail.com.
All artworks on this website are copyright Alex Walker.