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Contact: [email protected]<br> Instagram: [@alexandermourant](http://www.instagram.com/alexandermourant) <br> <br> Alexander Mourant is an artist, educator and writer based in London. His debut monograph, *[The Night and the First Sculpture](https://www.folium.site/shop/p/alex-mourant-the-night-and-the-first-sculpture)*, was published by Folium, 2024. Recent exhibitions include *To Walk in the Image*, Lismore Castle Arts, Ireland (2023), *At the Farthest Edge: Rebuilding Photography*, NŌUA, Norway (2023) and *A Sudden Vanishing*, Seen Fifteen Gallery, London (2023). Mourant is a recipient of grants from Arts Council Norway, Arts Council England and ArtHouse Jersey. He has been commissioned by FT Weekend Magazine, Hapax Magazine and The Greatest Magazine, and included in BJP, The Guardian, Photograph, Photoworks, METAL Magazine and Photomonitor. He won the Free Range Award and was nominated for the Foam Paul Huf Award. Mourant is a Member of [Revolv Collective](https://revolv.org.uk) and Contributor at [C4 Journal](https://c4journal.com). He achieved BA Photography at Falmouth University, and MA Photography at Royal College of Art, London. He is a Lecturer in Photography at [Kingston University](https://www.kingston.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses/photography/). <br> <br> 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](https://www.instagram.com/alexandermourant/), 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.
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Education
2020 - Royal College of Art, MA Photography (Distinction) 2017 - Falmouth University, BA (Hons) Photography (First Class Honours)
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Solo Exhibitions / Monographs
2024 - [Folium, *The Night and the First Sculpture*](https://www.folium.site/shop/p/alex-mourant-the-night-and-the-first-sculpture) 2018 - Unseen Amsterdam, *Aomori*, Seen Fifteen Gallery, Amsterdam, NL 2018 - The Old Truman Brewery, *Aomori*, London, UK
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Group Exhibitions
2024 - [ArtHouse Jersey, *The Land and Us – La Tèrre et Nous*, Jersey, UK](https://www.arthousejersey.je/our-work/the-land-us) 2023 - Seen Fifteen Gallery, *A Sudden Vanishing*, curated by Vivienne Gamble, London, UK 2023 - [NŌUA, *At the Farthest Edge: Rebuilding Photography*, Bodø, NO](https://www.noua.no/en/exhibitions/alexander-mourant-uk-bart-lunenburg-nl-jan-mccullough-ie-at-the-farthest-edge-rebuilding-photography) 2023 - [Lismore Castle Arts, *To Walk in the Image*, curated by Susan Bright, Lismore, IE](https://lismorecastlearts.ie/whats-on/to-walk-in-the-image) 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 - ArtLacuna, *A Rudimentary Education*, 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
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Curation
2024 - Curator: [*Grafting: The Land and the Artist*, Photo50, London Art Fair, UK](https://www.londonartfair.co.uk/fair-programme/photo50/) 2024 - Curator: [*The Land and Us – La Tèrre et Nous*, ArtHouse Jersey, Jersey, UK](https://www.arthousejersey.je/our-work/the-land-us) 2023 - Curator: [*Clare Strand: The Colder the Weather the Warmer the Hearts*, NŌUA, Bodø, NO](https://www.noua.no/en/exhibitions/clare-strand-uk-curator-alexander-mourant) 2023 - Curator: [*At the Farthest Edge: Rebuilding Photography*, NŌUA, Bodø, NO](https://www.noua.no/en/exhibitions/alexander-mourant-uk-bart-lunenburg-nl-jan-mccullough-ie-at-the-farthest-edge-rebuilding-photography) 2022 - Curator: *A Trip to Earnse Bay*, Cooke’s Studios, Barrow-in-Furness, UK 2022 - Curator: *A Place to Call Home*, Southside Shopping Centre, Wandsworth, UK
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Teaching
2023 - Lecturer, Kingston University, BA (Hons) Photography 2023 - Visiting Tutor, Arts University Bournemouth, BA (Hons) Photography 2022 - Visiting Tutor, Arts University Bournemouth, BA (Hons) Photography 2022 - Visiting Lecturer and Tutor, University of Westminster, BA (Hons) Photography 2023 - Guest Lecturer, University of Westminster, BA Photography, *Profile* 2023 - Guest Lecturer, University of Westminster, BA Photography, *Being with Photography* 2022 - Guest Lecturer, University of Westminster, BA Photography, *Think Then Shoot* 2022 - Guest Lecturer, University of Westminster, BA Photography, *The Artist and the Universe* 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
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Talks / Panel Discussions
2024 - Mulhouse Museum of Fine Arts, Biennale de la Photographie de Mulhouse, Awoiska van der Molen & Alexander Mourant 2024 - Mulhouse Museum of Fine Arts, Biennale de la Photographie de Mulhouse, Nigel Baldacchino & Alexander Mourant 2024 - Eye to Pencil, *The Phantom Pencil: Drawing Under the Surface* 2024 - London Art Fair, Photo50 Panel, *Land Matters*, with Christiane Monarchi, Almudena Romero & Marisa Culatto 2023 - NŌUA, *On Living Stones and Reaching* 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 & Roei Greenberg 2020 - Seen Fifteen, *Time Light Chance*, with Lina Ivanova & Victoria Doyle 2020 - ArtLacuna, *What’s a Can of Worms Between Mates?* with Victoria Doyle, Krasimira Butseva & Harry Gammer-Flitcroft 2019 - Copeland Gallery, *On Blue and Photography*, with Duncan Wooldridge, Tom Pope & Simone Mudde 2019 - Peckham 24, *Visualising Community*, with Karen McQuaid, Marianne Bjørnmyr, D Wiafe & Max Miechowski 2018 - The Old Truman Brewery, *Aomori*, with Professor Steve Macleod 2018 - Bryanston School, Artist Talk
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Community & Creative Learning
2023 - ArtHouse Jersey, Artist Educator, *Making Art Partnerships in Schools II* 2023 - Hayward Gallery, Artist Educator, Secondary Schools Takeover, *Mike Nelson* 2023 - ArtHouse Jersey, Learning Curator, *The Land and Us* 2022 - Hayward Gallery, Artist Educator, Primary Schools Takeover, *Strange Clay* 2022 - ArtHouse Jersey, Artist Educator, *Making Art Partnerships in Schools I* 2022 - BarrowFull and Greengate School, Artist Educator, *A Trip to Earnse Bay* 2022 - Wandsworth Council's Children's and Arts Service, Lead Educator, *A Place to Call Home* 2021 - Wandsworth Council, Artist Educator, *A Greener Picture: Photography and Climate Change*
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Workshops
2024 - d'Auvergne School, *The Return: Wizards and Islands, Part II, I–VI* 2023 - ArtHouse Jersey, *Sketching the Land: Photography, Drawing & Nature* 2023 - d'Auvergne School, *Portals: Towards Wizards and Islands I–VI* 2023 - Eyecan, ArtHouse Jersey, *Sensory Redirection: The Journey of a Leaf Falling* 2023 - Arts University Bournemouth, *On Collaboration: Photo-Twister & Other Games IV* 2023 - Arts University Bournemouth, *On Collaboration: Photo-Twister & Other Games III* 2023 - Arts University Bournemouth, *On Collaboration: Photo-Twister & Other Games II* 2023 - Arts University Bournemouth, *On Collaboration: Photo-Twister & Other Games I* 2023 - Hayward Gallery, *Mike Nelson: Secondary Schools Takeover Day* 2023 - Hayward Gallery, *Mike Nelson: Extinction Beckons V* 2023 - Hayward Gallery, *Mike Nelson: Extinction Beckons IV* 2023 - Hayward Gallery, *Mike Nelson: Extinction Beckons III* 2023 - Hayward Gallery, *Mike Nelson: Extinction Beckons II* 2023 - Hayward Gallery, *Mike Nelson: Extinction Beckons I* 2022 - Hayward Gallery, *Strange Clay: Primary Schools Takeover Day* 2022 - Hayward Gallery, Heathbrook Primary School, *Strange Clay IV* 2022 - Hayward Gallery, Heathbrook Primary School, *Strange Clay III* 2022 - Hayward Gallery, Heathbrook Primary School, *Strange Clay II* 2022 - Hayward Gallery, Heathbrook Primary School, *Strange Clay I* 2022 - GRAIN Projects, East Meets West Masterclass, Revolv Collective, *On Collective Working* 2022 - Greengate School, *A House by the Sea II* 2022 - Greengate School, *A House by the Sea I* 2022 - Greengate School, Earnse Bay, *Whistle for the Wind* 2022 - Heathmere School, Southside Shopping Centre, *A Place to Call Home* 2022 - Penwortham School, Southside Shopping Centre, *A Place to Call Home* 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* 2021 - Hotham School, *A Greener Picture: Photography and Climate Change* 2021 - Earlsfield Primary, *A Greener Picture: Photography and Climate Change*  2021 - St Faith’s School, *A Greener Picture: Photography and Climate Change* 2021 - West Hill Primary, *A Greener Picture: Photography and Climate Change* 2021 - Gatton School, *A Greener Picture: Photography and Climate Change* 2021 - Smallwood School, *A Greener Picture: Photography and Climate Change*  2021 - Mosaic School, *A Greener Picture: Photography and Climate Change*
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Writing
2024 - [C4 Journal, Review: *those eyes - these eyes - they fade (Part II)*](https://c4journal.com/those-eyes-these-eyes-they-fade-part-ii-at-musee-des-beaux-arts-mulhouse-france/) 2023 - [NŌUA, Catalogue Text: *Clare Strand: The Colder the Weather the Warmer the Hearts*](https://sites.google.com/view/clare-strand/home) 2023 - [C4 Journal, Essay: *At the Farthest Edge: Rebuilding Photography*](https://c4journal.com/at-the-farthest-edge-rebuilding-photography/) 2022 - [C4 Journal, Review: *those eyes - these eyes - they fade*](https://c4journal.com/valletta-malta/) 2022 - [C4 Journal, Review: *This Creaking Floor and All the Ceilings Below*](https://c4journal.com/bart-lunenburg-this-creaking-floor-and-all-the-ceilings-below/) 2021 - [C4 Journal, Review: *Furze*](https://c4journal.com/jack-whitefield-furze/) 2020 - [On Living Stones and Reaching: *The Wilderness of Words*](https://www.alexandermourant.com/on-living-stones-and-reaching) 2019 - *The Journal: On Being Someone Other* 2017 - *Land Art, Photography and Time*
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Commissions / Residencies
2024 - ArtHouse Jersey, *The Land and Us – La Tèrre et Nous* 2023 - NŌUA, *Project Room #1* 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* 2018 - The Greatest Magazine, Issue 14, *The Lightness*
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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
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Grants
2023 - Arts Council Norway - www.kulturradet.no 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
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Publications
2023 - Tall Poppy Press, *Site Specific: Photography Exhibitions from around the World*, edited by Matt Dunne and Callum Beaney 2022 - Hapax Magazine, Issue 3 (2022/2023), *North East South West* 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, *I Could Not Tell Glass from Air* 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, *Blue Parrot* 2018 - The Greatest Magazine, Issue 14, *The Lightness* 2018 - Unseen Magazine, Issue 5, *Aomori* 2018 - Penguin Random House, *Notes from the Fog*: Ben Marcus, *Display Dome with Atmosphere* 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*
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Selected Press / Interviews
[Photo-Eye, *The Night and the First Sculpture*](https://www.photoeye.com/best-books-2024/details.cfm?FirstName=Awoiska&Lastname=van%20der%20Molen&catalog=ZK720) [Urbanautica Podcast, Ep. #33: *Jersey Roots, Japanese Forests: Exploring Heritage and Horizons with Alexander Mourant*](https://youtu.be/5-nzNR-bLNA?si=jBV2KqKPKmwM3TDt) ITV News, *The Land and Us – La Tèrre et Nous* BBC Radio Jersey, *The Land and Us – La Tèrre et Nous* [1000 Words, *Grafting: The Land and the Artist*](https://www.1000wordsmag.com/revolv-collective/) [Photomonitor, *Grafting: The Land and the Artist*](https://photomonitor.co.uk/exhibition/photo50-grafting-the-land-and-the-artist/) [British Journal of Photography, *Grafting: The Land and the Artist*](https://www.1854.photography/2024/01/revolv-collective-grafting-photo50-london-art-fair-2024/?utm_source=ig_grid_organic&utm_medium=content_promo&utm_campaign=gfa246~ig_grid_organic~content_promo~5_jan_2024~bjp_online_editorial~gfa246) [London Art Fair, *Grafting: The Land and the Artist*](https://www.londonartfair.co.uk/photo50-2024-meet-the-curator-revolv-collective/) [Photomonitor](https://photomonitor.co.uk/interview/on-living-stones-and-reaching/) [The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/apr/20/horse-cults-and-explosives-images-inspired-by-islands-in-pictures) [SW Londoner](https://www.swlondoner.co.uk/news/19032022-artwork-of-wandsworth-schoolchildren-on-show-in-southside-shopping-centre) [Revolv Collective](https://revolv.org.uk/Insular-Time) [grandmama’s print](https://grandmamasmag.com/en/projects/36/) [whynow](https://whynow.co.uk/read/i-was-interested-in-the-body-as-both-a-literal-and-metaphysical-object-the-lightness-by-alexander-mourant) [Der Greif](https://dergreif-online.de/guest-room/emma-bowkett/) COS magazine [RIBA Journal](https://www.ribaj.com/buildings/alexander-mourant-saatchi-gallery-dissipate-ii-japan-tokyo-photograph) [Financial Times](https://www.ft.com/content/a6ccdf0e-6a1c-11e9-80c7-60ee53e6681d) [photograph](https://photographmag.com/photograph-is-30/) [METAL Magazine](https://metalmagazine.eu/bi/post/interview/alexander-mourant-materiality-and-metaphysics) Culture Trip [It's Nice That](https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/alexander-mourant-odyssey-photography-180518) Unseen Amsterdam [Photoworks](https://photoworks.org.uk/interview-alexander-mourant/) [NOWNESS](https://nowness.tumblr.com/post/170266864445/alexander-mourant-fr-awards-solo-exhibitions-at) [Splash and Grab](https://www.splashandgrab.co.uk/features/2018/1/23/alexander-mourant-aomori) Palm Studios [Unveil'd](https://unveild.online/feature/aomori) [British Journal of Photography](https://www.1854.photography/2018/01/mourantaomori/), *Aomori* [British Journal of Photography](https://www.1854.photography/2017/07/alexander-mourants-aurelian-study-of-time-and-memory-via-classic-butterfly-houses/), *Aurelian* [The Plantation Journal](http://www.acornerwith.com/contributors) [iGNANT](https://www.ignant.com/submissions/aurelian-by-alexander-mourant/) [AINT-BAD](https://www.aint-bad.com/article/2017/06/21/alexander-mourant/) [Photograd](https://www.photograd.co.uk/alexander-mourant-2/) losthenfound SIGH Journal [Source Magazine](https://www.source.ie/graduate/2017/falmunivba/falmunivba_student_17_49_47_10-05-17/falmunivba_student_17_49_47_10-05-17.php) [PYLOT Magazine](https://www.pylotmagazine.com/field-visit/) TRIP Magazine
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