ALEXANDRA OLIVER
Fine Artist
Alex Oliver is a landscape artist based in Suffolk. Her artwork is focused upon an exploration of the serene beauty of the countryside that surrounds her. Specialising in oil paintings on canvas, as well as playful drawings in pastel and watercolour, she captures the peaceful essence of nature with a whimsical touch. Each painting is infused with the positive energy she draws from the natural world, inviting the viewer to immerse themselves in its beauty and tranquillity.
Her traditional approach to painting has evolved from a background following practical art training in Florence and art history at Sotheby’s Institute of Art where she completed her MA in Fine and Decorative Art & Design. Her enthusiasm for the ethereal quality of the Rococo aesthetic alongside the allure of Claudian landscapes fuels her desire to inject her artwork with a representational flourish.
Alongside her most recent MA graduation from Sotheby’s Institute of Art in 2024, she received her BA in Fine Art and History of Art at the University of Leeds in 2019. Alex has exhibited all over the UK, including Leeds, London, Cambridge and overseas in Canada. Her work has been complimented by winning the Berkofsky Award in 2019, and being shortlisted for the FUAM Graduate Art Prize.
Alongside this Alex also has skills completing murals and paintings around atmospheric music and dance.
EDUCATION.
2024: MA Fine and Decorative Art & Design at Sotheby's Institute of Art, London
2020: Drawing and Painting Course, The Florence Academy of Art, Italy
2015-2019: BA Fine Art with History of Art at University of Leeds
2017-18: Fine Art at York University, Toronto, Canada
AWARDS.
2019 – FUAM Graduate Art Prize Shortlisted
2019 – Berkofsky Award
GROUP EXHIBITIONS.
7 March-April 2022: Marketcross Art Gallery, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
14 August – 16 November 2019: FUAM Graduate Art Prize 2019 – Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds
4-8 July 2019: Free Range – Truman Brewery, London
7 June 2019: Limitless: Reaction– Wharf Chambers, Leeds
6-22 June 2019 BA Fine Art Degree Show ‘Cut the Mustard’ – School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, Leeds
16 May 2019 Spread the Mustard – Freehold Project Space, Leeds
13-17 May, 2019 - From the Studio Floor - Mill Road, Cambridge www.fromthestudiofloor.co.uk
11 March, 2019: Lead Balloons – Wharf Chambers, Leeds
17 January 2019: Open Studio – School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, Leeds
April 2018: Limitless: North York, Toronto, Canada
March 2018: From the Studio Floor: Mill Road, Cambridge
May 2017: Hoax: Corn Exchange, Leeds
October 2016: From the Studio Floor: Guildhall, Cambridge
