Alex Walker is a visual artist trained in analogue photography and interested in expanded photographic theory, analogue processes and spatial perception based in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia.
Expanding on the literal meaning of photography as ‘drawing with light’, Alex explores the photographic medium and extends it to its limits by reducing it to three core elements: light, space and perception.
Alex makes large scale abstract prints by hand in the colour darkroom; her recent work is inspired by the tactile experience of heightened bodily awareness and sensory deprivation encountered during this unique process. Alex also employs projection and installation to expand the photograph beyond its two-dimensional form into phenomenological, bodily encounter, referencing the physical experience of analogue printing.
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 new colour darkroom works with Void_Melbourne at Sydney Contemporary in September.
Selected exhibitions include: the image is not merely a surface, Void_Melbourne, Light | Intersection, PhotoAccess, 2025; Light | Space | Image, Quality; Denouement, Void_Melbourne; The light draws along..., Incinerator Gallery, 2024; Anti-lens, 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 profiled in the inaugural issue of Current Art Magazine, New Zealand and 2025 Art Collector magazine issue Things Collectors Need To Know. She was awarded the Canberra Contemporary Photographic Prize 2025 and was a finalist in the National Photography Prize 2026 & 2024, MA Art Prize at Sydney Contemporary 2026, 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. Her work is in the Artbank collection, RACV Art collection and private collections nationally.
Alex is represented by Void_Melbourne.
All artworks on this website are copyright Alex Walker.