Artist Profile : Alexandra Janet Alderson
Japanese Screen Gold & Silver Leaf Magnetic Sea Series XV View Paintings by
Alexandra Janet Alderson

Born Melbourne, Victoria Studies

1986-1993 : Lived and worked in London, UK, USA and Paris
1970-1985 : Lived and worked in Vienna, Madrid, Milan and Paris
1969 : Travelled to Japan
1962 : Dyason Bequest for further study in Europe. Lived, worked in Spain, returned to Australia. Exhibited
1967 - 1961 :  Arts Student League, New York
1961 : Central School, London
1960 : English Speaking Union Scholarship to UK and USA
1957 : National Gallery School, Melbourne RMIT & Fine Arts, Melbourne University

Solo Exhibitions

1998 : 35 Year Retrospective, Sunshine Coast University, QLD
1997 : Burns Gallery, Eumundi; Fulton Gallery, Seville
1995 : The Awillion Gallery, Melbourne
1994 : Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne Lyceum Club (portraits), Melbourne
1992 : Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1990 : Gray Street Gallery, Hamilton, Victoria USSR Ministry of Culture invitation to exhibit in Moscow
1989 : Australian Embassy, Paris Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1988 : N.S.W House, London (Bicentennial Exhibition)
1985-1986 : Mexican Government invitation to work and exhibit, Puebla Tiaxcalia of Mexico D.F
1984 : N.S.W House, London
1983 : Salzburg Festival, drawing Exhibition, Vienna. To celebrate centenary of the Metropolitan Opera
1982 : Hotel Astoria, Vienna
1980 : Hotel Intercontinental, Paris
1978 : Australian Embassy, Paris
1976 : Galeria Lazaro, Madrid
1973 : Galerie Spectrum, Vienna
1971 : Bonython Gallery, Sydney
1969 : Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1967 : Gallery A. Sydney and Melbourne
1965 : Galeria de Turismo, Seville
1964 : Galeria Cespedes, Cordoba; Galeria Sen, Madrid
1963 : Ateneo, Seville
1962 : Hamilton Gallery, London

Collections

National Gallery of Victoria
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Melbourne University
Monash University
State of Tlaxcala, Mexico
Museo de Huamantla Museo Taurino, Cordoba,
Spain Reserve Bank, Australia
Leeuwin Estate Wines, W.A
Bonynge Collections, Switzerland

Because of Alexandra's long association with Europe and USA her work is held in private collections world wide.

Bibliography

Alan McCulloch
Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Hutchinson,
Melbourne, 1984

Max Germaine
Australian and New Zealand Art and Artists Boolarong, Brisbane, 1991

Geoffrey de Groen
Some Other Dream & The Artist, The Art World and the Expatriate, Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, 1984

Francisco Zeuras
El Arte Abstracto de la Australiana Alderson, Informaciones, Madrid, 1964