Alexander Augustus

Stories are the currency of power. I have collaborated with shamans, architects, engineers, bank robbers, doctors, musicians, politicians, dancers, miners, actors, fishermen, urban planners, developers and others to build metaphorical worlds which critique our own. I create operatic experiences which combine the traditional and digital; bronze-casting, textiles, metalwork, film and theatre, alongside CAD, CNC, 3D modelling and VR.
I studied Anthropology and Art History at the Sainsbury’s Centre of Visual Arts, before training as an artist in America and then at Central St Martins in London. My work engages with the things I care about. My solo exhibition at Somerset House (London) dealt with the alienation and despair of young unemployment and led to the banning of unpaid internships there, and was subsequently archived in the National Portrait Gallery. My architectural steel birds in IAP (Incheon) and ZK/U (Berlin) are permanent public sculptures commenting on the politics of borders.