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Instagram: @alexandermourant
Alexander Mourant is an artist, writer and educator based in London. He has been commissioned by FT Weekend Magazine, Hapax Magazine and The Greatest Magazine, and included in publications such as British Journal of Photography, The Guardian, Photograph, Unseen Magazine and Photomonitor. Solo shows include Aomori at The
Old Truman Brewery and Unseen Amsterdam, alongside group shows at Edel Assanti, Saatchi
Gallery, Seen Fifteen Gallery, Peckham 24, and Photo50, London Art Fair. Mourant is a
recipient of grants from ArtHouse Jersey, Jersey Bursary and Arts Council England. He has won the Free Range Award
and was nominated for the Foam Paul Huf Award. Mourant is a member of Revolv Collective, an arts organisation
established in 2017 which champions art pedagogy; he is also a Contributor at C4 Journal, a platform dedicated to
writing about photography and the various incarnations of the photobook. He achieved BA Photography at Falmouth
University, and MA Photography at Royal College of Art, London.
The work of Alexander Mourant embraces autobiography, literature and reference-based thinking, to create narratives that question the relationship between the body and the photographic medium. His practice is a deeply rooted investigation into photography, writing, performance and sculpture, and seeks to uncover a parallelism between action and theoretical discourse. Known for his post-conceptual approach and expanded research, he often utilises methodologies cultivated by the 1960s-70s Land Art movement, Performance and Arte Povera, to help question, or push, our understanding of the photographic. Mourant proposes how images may deal with temporality, spatiality and reflexivity, through new ways of thinking, and alludes to the photographic becoming a terrain itself, and a place we traverse.
Education
2020 - Royal College of Art, MA Photography (Distinction)
2017 - Falmouth University, BA (Hons) Photography (First Class Honours)
Solo Exhibitions
2018 - Unseen Amsterdam, Aomori, Seen Fifteen Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2018 - The Old Truman Brewery, Aomori, London, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 - Seen Fifteen Gallery, Orbits, Revolv Collective, London, UK
2022 - Photo50, London Art Fair, No Place is an Island, curated by Rodrigo Orrantia, UK
2021 - Tor Art Space, +1, Frankfurt, DE
2020 - Photo London Digital, Seen Fifteen Gallery, London, UK
2020 - Saatchi Gallery, London Grads Now, curated by Mandy Franca, London, UK
2020 - Edel Assanti, with fists, it kicks, it bites, curated by Edward Thomasson, London, UK
2020 - Unit 1 Gallery, Final, not Over, London, UK
2020 - Royal College of Art, SHOW 2020, London, UK
2019 - Copeland Gallery, Where You Are Not, curated by Maddie Rose Hills, London, UK
2019 - Unseen Amsterdam, To Feel Its Touch, Seen Fifteen Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2019 - Peckham 24, For Those Who Could See Beyond The Surface, curated by Emma Bowkett
2019 - Royal College of Art, WIP, London, UK
2018 - Jersey Arts Centre, Anniversary Exhibition, Jersey, UK
2018 - The Old Truman Brewery, Photoworks presents Collaborate at Free Range, London, UK
2017 - The Old Truman Brewery, South West Graduate Photography Prize, London, UK
2017 - CCA Galleries International, Summer Exhibition, Jersey, UK
2017 - The Old Truman Brewery, Free Range, London, UK
2015 - Berni Gallery, Jersey Arts Centre, The Original Student Art Exhibition, Jersey, UK
2015 - The Poly, End of Year Show, Falmouth, Cornwall, UK
2015 - theprintspace, PhotoVoice Awards, London, UK
2014 - CCA Galleries International, Jersey, Gallery Magazine: Student Awards, Jersey, UK
Talks
2022 - Livingmaps Network, A Place to Call Home
2021 - Four Corners, London Creative Network, On Collective Practice
2021 - Revolv Collective, Conversations with Artists, Laura Bivolaru x Alexander Mourant, A Vertigo Like Self
2021 - VOID Collective, Digital Futures among an Earthly Land
2020 - Royal College of Art, On Borders and Being, with Julia Crabtree, Katie Bret-Day and Roei Greenberg
2020 - Seen Fifteen, Time Light Chance, with Lina Ivanova and Victoria Doyle
2020 - ArtLacuna, What’s a Can of Worms Between Mates? with Victoria Doyle, Krasimira Butseva and Harry Gammer-Flitcroft
2019 - Copeland Gallery, On Blue and Photography, with Duncan Wooldridge, Tom Pope and Simone Mudde
2019 - Peckham 24, Visualising Community, with Karen McQuaid, Marianne Bjørnmyr, D Wiafe and Max Miechowski
2018 - The Old Truman Brewery, Aomori, with Professor Steve Macleod
Teaching
2022 - Visiting Lecturer and Tutor, BA (Hons) Photography, University of Westminster
2022 - Guest Lecturer, Kingston University, BA Photography
2022 - Guest Lecturer, Falmouth University, MA Photography
2021 - Guest Lecturer, Kingston University, BA Photography
2021 - Guest Lecturer, Arts University Bournemouth, BA Photography
2021 - Guest Lecturer, Swansea College of Art, BA Photography
2020 - Guest Lecturer, Kingston University, BA Photography
2019 - Guest Lecturer, Kingston University, BA Photography
2019 - Guest Lecturer, Falmouth University, BA Photography
2019 - Guest Lecturer, University of Huddersfield, All Levels (BA, MA & PhD)
2018 - Guest Lecturer, Kingston University, BA Photography
2018 - Guest Lecturer, Bryanston School
Education Commissions
2022 - ArtHouse Jersey, Artist Educator, MAPS
2022 - BarrowFull and Greengate School, Artist in Residence, A Trip to Earnse Bay
2022 - Wandsworth Council’s Children’s and Arts Service, Project Lead, A Place to Call Home
2021 - Wandsworth Council, Artist Educator, A Greener Picture: Photography and Climate Change
Workshops
2022 - Format Festival, East Meets West Masterclass, Revolv Collective, On Collective Working
2022 - Greengate School, A House by the Sea II, Workshop Lead
2022 - Greengate School, A House by the Sea I, Workshop Lead
2022 - Greengate School, Earnse Bay, Whistle for the Wind, Workshop Lead
2022 - Heathmere School, Southside Shopping Centre, A Place to Call Home, Workshop Lead
2022 - Penwortham School, Southside Shopping Centre, A Place to Call Home, Workshop Lead
2021 - Chestnut Grove Academy, A Place to Call Home, Artist Talk & CPD Workshop Lead
2021 - Putney High School, A Place to Call Home, Artist Talk & CPD Workshop Lead
2021 - Emanuel School, A Place to Call Home, Artist Talk & CPD Workshop Lead
2021 - Hillbrook School, A Greener Picture: Photography and Climate Change, Workshop Lead
2021 - Hotham School, A Greener Picture: Photography and Climate Change, Workshop Lead
2021 - Earlsfield Primary, A Greener Picture: Photography and Climate Change, Workshop Lead
2021 - St Faith’s, A Greener Picture: Photography and Climate Change, Workshop Lead
2021 - West Hill Primary, A Greener Picture: Photography and Climate Change, Workshop Lead
2021 - Gatton School, A Greener Picture: Photography and Climate Change, Workshop Lead
2021 - Smallwood School, A Greener Picture: Photography and Climate Change, Workshop Lead
2021 - Mosaic School, A Greener Picture: Photography and Climate Change, Workshop Lead
Writing
2022 - C4 Journal, Review: those eyes - these eyes - they fade
2022 - C4 Journal, Review: This Creaking Floor and All the Ceilings Below by Bart Lunenburg
2021 - C4 Journal, Review: Furze by Jack Whitefield
2020 - On Living Stones and Reaching: The Wilderness of Words
2019 - The Journal: On Being Someone Other
2017 - Land Art, Photography and Time
Commissions
2022 - Hapax Magazine, Issue 3 (2022/2023), North East South West
2020 - The Eye Sees, Arles, Entractes 14, When the Image Returns to Glass
2020 - HGG London, The Bell Tower
2019 - FT Weekend Magazine / Photo London, My London
Awards
2019 - Foam Paul Huf Award - Nomination
2017 - Free Range Award - Winner
2017 - Metro Imaging Award - Winner
2017 - South West Graduate Photography Prize - Finalist
2016 - NCVO and PhotoVoice Photography Prize - Finalist
2015 - Jersey Arts Centre’s, Original Student Art Award - Winner
2015 - theprintspace, PhotoVoice Awards - Finalist
Grants
2021 - ArtHouse Jersey - www.arthouse.je
2018 - ArtHouse Jersey - www.arthouse.je
2018 - Jersey Bursary - www.gov.je
2018 - Arts Council England - www.artscouncil.org.uk
2017 - ArtHouse Jersey - www.arthouse.je
Publications
2021 - The Ivy Press, Gemma Padley, Look At This If You Love Great Photography
2020 - The RIBA Journal, November, City I
2020 - FotoFilmic, JRNL 6, Autumn
2020 - Dulwich Picture Gallery, In View, The Lightness, Summer
2020 - Folium Publishing, fall into place, foreword by Tom Lovelace and Penelope Umbrico
2019 - Photograph, Jan/Feb, 30th Anniversary Special
2018 - The Greatest Magazine, Issue 14, The Lightness
2018 - Unseen Magazine, Issue 5, Aomori
2018 - Penguin Random House, Notes from the Fog: Ben Marcus
2017 - Source Photographic Review, no. 90, Aurelian
2017 - British Journal of Photography, no. 7862, Aurelian
2016 - Gallery Magazine: The APPETITE issue, no. 128, Out of Africa
2016 - Gallery Magazine: The PARTNERSHIPS issue, no. 127, Ethiopia and Kenya
2016 - Gallery Magazine: The SOLO issue, no. 126, Cairo to Cape Town: Africa’s Plastic Footprint
2016 - PhotoVoice: Issue 3, Africa’s Plastic Footprint
2015 - Gallery Magazine: Evolution Issue no. 116, Beauty in Rumination
2014 - Gallery Magazine: Jersey Style Magazine no.110, Blue Railing
Selected Press
COS magazine
Culture Trip
Unseen Amsterdam
Palm Studios
British Journal of Photography, Aomori
British Journal of Photography, Aurelian
losthenfound
SIGH Journal
TRIP Magazine
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