About Alexander Dixon

Alexander Dixon is an artist based in the West Midlands. He received his BA in Fine Art Photography from Camberwell College of Arts, before completing an MA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins. His practice combines photography and sculpture, using these mediums as a point to explore the city, and his place within it. Recent exhibitions of the artist’s work include Tomorrow: London at White Cube, and London Grads Now at Saatchi Gallery.

Dixon’s practice centres on the act of walking, discovering and recording the changing materiality of the urban environment. He views this process as one of disconnection, observing London from a near-outside perspective; Dixon has previously spoken of his experience of dislocation in such a large city. A disruption of the familiar through these therapeutic encounters has become a ritual for the artist, bringing back a sense of time through the physical evidence of ecological transformation. Dixon’s practice seeks to investigate the relationship between natural and artificial realms. Specifically, it considers how these two domains coincide as changes in technology allow us to manipulate the forms and materials that define our environment. The artist draws attention to perception as largely defined by the surfaces that surround us. As these tactile and visual worlds transform, so do our realities. This thinking has been largely informed by De Landa’s book on A Thousand Years of Non-Linear History, in which the Spanish Franciscan priest writes that “We live in a world populated by structures - a complex mixture of geological, biological, social and linguistic constructions that are nothing but accumulations of material shaped and hardened by history.”