Alexandra Harley

I am a London-based abstract sculptor, exploring a long-term, immersive engagement with materials. I studied sculpture at Wimbledon School of Art (1978-82) under Glyn Williams Katherine Gilli and Robin Greenwood, and went on to the Advanced Course at St. Martin’s School of Art to study with Tim Scott and Alan Gouk (1982-84). My CV is extensive with prestigious juried exhibitions and prizes including the Ashurst Sculpture Prize in 2021. In 2000 I was elected to the Royal Society of Sculptors, serving a three-year term as a trustee 2016-2019; The Free Painters and Sculptors elected me in 2014 and The London Group in 2018 where I am currently on the working committee. In 2019 I brought together Sheila Vollmer, head of programme at Morley and Gill Brent based in Sheffield to exhibit together and to make a series of recorded discussions. ‘Talking-Sculpture-Making’ has now had several exhibitions and is currently on show at York St John University with Griselda Pollock as keynote speaker at the March symposium. Brancaster Chronicles was a studio-based crit group and comprised of my college tutors and other invited artists running for several years until 2019.  My practice has also developed through fellowships in Japan with the East West Prize, the USA at the Vermont Studio Center and the ICA in Massachusetts and the prestigious opportunity to spend 3 months in residence at the Mariani Bronze Foundry in Italy as a Brian Mercer Fellow in 2016.