Alex Singleton completed his BA Honors in Graphic Design at Central Saint Martins Art College in 1994. After his degree he travelled to Australia for a year where he developed a series of water colour paintings of the landscape, fauna and wildlife. The intensity of colour and shapes of the landscape inspired him to develop a style and a language that he could call his own. When returning to Britain he lived and worked in Oxford and began to create oil colour paintings on canvases and wooden backgrounds. The subject matter was generated from his surroundings and the cities cosmopolitan atmosphere.

In 1999 he returned to Australia where he was to live for the next four years. At this point he was working in 1+2 Studios in Balmain, Sydney, working on themes about the modern indigenous population living in a post colonial era. He created large canvases again looking at the modern Koori (aboriginal) and the fauna of the tropical environment in Australia. He had group exhibitions at the James Harvey Galley in Sydney and a one man show at the Maclay Museum which is a part of Sydney University. He achieved a second degree at Sydney University in Art History where he studied the 'Influence of European Art Upon the Pacific Islands', 'Romanticism', 'Iconology' and 'Philosophy'.

After returning to the U.K once more he moved back to Oxford where he has been exploring the idea of generic portraiture and abstraction. Six years ago he hung two pieces of work in to the Royal Academy Summer show in London and received further commissions. More recently he had his work shown in The Modern Museum Oxford, The 2d3d Market- Edinburgh Arts Festival, The Llewellyn Alexander Gallery-London, The Didcot Arts Centre-Oxfordshire and in 2013 will be showing in a group show at the lloyd Gill Gallery in Weston-Super-Mare.

He is a qualified teacher in Further Education where he inspires his pupils in the theories of Art and Design. Recently moved to BridewellSpace Studio, Nelson Street- Bristol he is Working on a series of graphical images of Weston-Super-Mare with a reflection for Seaside Nostalgia which has led to another series of works to do with locations in Bristol

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