Alexa Wright
Biography
Alexa Wright is a visual artist working with photography and digital media. She exhibits widely in the UK and also Internationally. In 2002 she was New Technology Arts Fellow at Cambridge University, and holds an ongoing post as artist in residence in Medical Physics at University College London, where she is researching a new interactive installation Alter Ego, in collaboration with Professor Alf Linney. In 2000 Alexa and Alf's first collaborative work Face Value was produced and exhibited at the Exploratorium Museum of Science, Technology and Innovation in San Francisco.
In 1997 Alexa was commissioned by The Wellcome Trust to collaborate with two scientists to visualise the phantom limbs of amputees in a series of twenty four photographic prints entitled After Image. In 1998 this work won Imaginaria, a major new digital art prize at the ICA in London. It has since been exhibited and published in both artistic and scientific contexts in many different countries. Alexa also won a Digital Print Award in June 1998 with Precious, an earlier series of digitally manipulated photographs. In 2001 an image from Alexa's Skin series (2000) won the 'beauty' category in Channel 4 Yr1 photography competition at the Photographers Gallery, London.
Most recently Alexa's work was exhibited in Metamorphing at the Science Museum, London, Perspectives 2002 at Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, and Medicate at the Royal Pump Rooms, Leamington Spa. Face Value is currently in Geometry of the Face at the National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen.
In 2001 Alexa received a grant from the AHRB to research and create a sound and video installation which examines individual and collective perceptions of self and 'other' through the narratives of people who have killed.
With the support of a grant from the Gulbenkian Foundation, and a Science on Stage & Screen Award from the Wellcome Trust, Alexa recently created a performance on the subject of pain in collaboration with playwrights Diane Samuels and Sarah Woods, and three medical specialists. This was showcased at The People Show in June 2003.
Alexa is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Arts Research and Technology Education at the University of Westminster, where she teaches on two courses: MA Visual Culture and MA Photographic Studies. She is also studying towards a PhD on the subject of monstrosity.