About
Drawer • Sculptor • Painter • Educator
Alexandra Carus Bowker is a British fine artist, designer, and creative educator based between London and her home county of Lancashire.
Carus Bowker is currently studying for an MA in Fine Art at City and Guilds of London Art School. She previously undertook postgraduate study in figurative sculpture and drawing at the Heatherley School of Fine Art and the Royal Drawing School, completing the Drawing Development Year. She holds a PGCE in Design from Goldsmiths, University of London, and she has worked with museums and galleries as an arts facilitator and educator, including Manchester Art Gallery, and as part of the V&A Innovate Project development team.
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My practice is rooted in a commitment to observing and interpreting the natural world and human interaction within it. Through drawing, painting, and sculpture, I explore how fluid forms and abstracted details can express both sensory and emotional connections to the environment. Drawing operates as a structural device within my practice, through which work is conceived, tested, and realised. By blending traditional techniques with a contemporary perspective, I focus on tonal values, light, and space to create compositions which challenge static representation and extend into spatial and material form.
At the heart of my work is a fascination with the tensions between our ancestral ties to the land and the ways in which modern society has become desensitised to nature’s rhythms. In examining our evolving relationship with the land, my practice considers habitat as both a cultivated necessity and a repository of personal and collective memory. I am drawn to the spaces which emerge between humans and their environments, where fleeting moments of presence leave an imprint. My work reflects the tension between human form and natural rhythms, weaving observation, recollection, and imagination to create intentional and unintentional narratives which shift between clarity and ambiguity.
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City & Guilds of London Art School | MA Fine Art
The Heatherley School of Fine Art | Post Diploma in Figurative Sculpture & Lifedrawing
The 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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RECENT
Moment in Time | City & Guilds of London Art School
2025
FAKE – How true is Reality? | 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
Interim Show | The Heatherley School of Fine Art
Beyond Drawing | Royal Drawing School at Breakers Gallery, Notting Dale, London
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
Clitheroe Contemporary | Holmes Mill, Clitheroe
Art Open | Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery
60 Years of Wildness! | Lancashire Wildlife Trust