Alexandra Motiu MSDC
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Alexandra creates detailed, decorative, and surreal prints that are entirely guided by the processes she works with, where mistakes are appreciated and oddities shine. She draws inspiration from people, specifically portraiture and it is from this sister art form that the stories encapsulated in her prints often develop.
Her recent work has concentrated on using traditional printmaking techniques as a means to uncover the hidden stories of the past: particularly in relation to labour, and labour rights. An understanding of printmaking as a practice of resistance - where slowness, care, and repetition are pivotal - has helped her connect deeply to its history as a trade and given her an insight into what work looked like in the past and what it may evolve into in the future.
Alexandra’s very personal creativity process allows her to directly connect to her work, its historical roots and techniques and, thereby, its finished form. She is passionate about embracing and preserving the knowledge of her craft/trade in its entire creative form, past and present.
After completing a BA (Hons) Fine Art Critical Practice at Brighton, and an MA Illustration from Camberwell College, UAL, Alexandra's notable projects are illustrated stories from the Bishopsgate Archive, the illustrated poetry book Effigies by Ricardo Reveron Blanco, and a commission of exclusive prints for Fabrica Gallery in Brighton. Her work has been featured in international exhibitions over the past three years throughout Europe and the US, and is permanently at IO Gallery in Brighton & Greenwich Printmakers in London. She shares online the process of making original prints which she is passionate about preserving.
Education
- 2022-2023, University of the Arts, London. MA Illustration, distinction
- 2016-2019, Brighton University, BA (Hons) Fine Art Critical Practice
- Matei Serban Sandu Apprenticeship: Introduced to various printmaking techniques by Romanian painter and printmaker Matei Serban Sandu.
Exhibitions
2025
- 14 – 15 May Print Fair, Winchester
- Prints for Presents exhibition, Greenwich Printmakers Gallery
- Winter Exhibition, Art Gallery by Aga Kubish, Weston-Super-Mare
2024
- Mini Prints Exhibition, Southbank Printmakers, London
- Atelier Open Group Show, Atelier Beside the Sea, Brighton
2023
- Industry Book Fair, Millbank Tower, London
- Group show, Camberwell College, London
2022
- Assemblage Christmas Show, Assemblage Art & Design Institute, Bucharest
- Press & Play Print Festival, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton
- Book launch/solo show, Fabrica Gallery, Brighton
- Group show, Surface Impressions, Lux Centre for Cont Arts, USA
- Group Show, Derby Print Open, Green Mill Studios, Derby
2021
- Group Show, Sibiu Contemporary, Brukenthal Sibiu
- Group show, Awagami, Yoshin Ogawa, Japan
- Group show, Romanian Design Week, Bucharest
- Virtual Group show, Holy Art Gallery, London
Permanent gallery representation
- Io Gallery, Brighton and Greenwich Printmakers, London
Publications as author
- The History Workshop 2024 - illustrating wages for housework
https://www.historyworkshop.or...
- Artist blog - Linocut Printmaking
https://www.moatzart.co.uk/pos...
Blogs/website publications
- Ironbridge Printmakers blog feature – 2022
- Handprinted UK Meet the Maker feature article - August 2021
Awards and shortlists
- QEST Scholarship - shortlisted
Magazine features
- Pressing Matters, July 2021
- Group feature for a challenge call out
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