About
Alexandra Carus Bowker is a British fine artist, based between London and her home county of Lancashire.
Rooted in observational practice, her work explores material transformation, place and the construction of vertical volume through sustained experimentation and iteration.
Carus Bowker is currently studying for an MA in Fine Art at City and Guilds of London Art School, having previously undertaken postgraduate study in figurative sculpture and drawing at the Heatherley School of Fine Art and the Royal Drawing School. She holds a PGCE in Design from Goldsmiths, University of London. Alongside her studio practice, she has worked with museums and galleries, including Manchester Art Gallery and as part of the V&A Innovate Project Development Team.
BIOGRAPHY
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My practice explores how forms are held in relation through sustained observation, drawing, painting and sculpture. Drawing remains the methodological thread which connects my practice, through which relationships between figure, material and habitat are continually tested, disrupted and reconfigured across media. I explore how forms are constructed, held and experienced within space.
Through looking, transcription and repeated making, I investigate proportion, gesture and spatial relationships. Material process is not simply a means of execution but an active part of the enquiry itself, allowing drawing, painting and sculpture to continually inform one another as each work evolves through material process.
Rooted in memories of walking the moors and woodland surrounding my childhood home in Lancashire, my work explores habitat as the lived relationship between people, place and memory. Although the figure is often fragmented or withheld, it continues to organise the work through scale, balance, rhythm and verticality, shaping how forms are assembled and experienced through material.
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City & Guilds of London Art School | MA Fine Art
Heatherley School of Fine Art | Postgraduate Diploma in Figurative Sculpture & Lifedrawing
Royal Drawing School | The Drawing Development Year
Goldsmiths College | PGCE Design x Victoria & Albert Museum of Childhood Enrichment Placement
Lancaster University - ELIHE | BA Hons Fine Art Integrated Media
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UPCOMING
Drawing Residency | Dumfries House x Royal Drawing School
MA Show | City & Guilds of London Art School
RECENT
Moment in Time | City & Guilds of London Art School
2025
FAKE – Wie wahr ist die Wirklichkeit? | Konvikt Haus der Kultur, Prüm, Germany
How The light Gets In | The Marylebone Gallery, London
MA Interim Show | City and Guilds of London Art School
2024
Diploma Graduates' Exhibition | The Heatherley School of Fine Art
Beyond Drawing | Royal Drawing School at Breakers Gallery, London
Interim Show | The Heatherley School of Fine Art
2023
Fragments of Life | Brompton Chapel Gallery, London
Interim Show | The Heatherley School of Fine Art
Gyllian Foster Prize for Drawing
Diploma Graduates' Exhibition | The Heatherley School of Fine Art
2022 & PREVIOUS
Clitheroe Contemporary | Holmes Mill, Clitheroe
Art Open | Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery
60 Years of Wildness! | Lancashire Wildlife Trust, Brockholes Nature Reserve
Lancashire | Samlesbury Hall, Preston
Landgate Create | Turnpike Gallery, Leigh