Alexander Costello (b. London 1976) studied an MFA at The Slade School of Art, London, and a BA in Fine Art at Middlesex University, London. Using a wide variety of materials, techniques and approaches, incorporating drawing, sculpture, video, text-based work, performance and painting, work is wide open to the fluency and variables of interchangeable processes and ideas and as a consequence manifests often as a series.
Intentions are to interrupt, interact, interfere and interpret the space implicit around thought and action, activity and language, in turn taking on a responsibility to address, challenge and reposition observed perceived norms, actions, ideas, systems, structures, objects, forms and spaces, that would reside more appropriately in the absurd, melancholic, humorous and idiotic.
Work is always in a state of progress and does not adhere to a particular style. It is instead propelled, refined or negotiated by the range of work that precedes it, but does not wholly rely on it. An individual outcome is not considered a conclusion of an idea. Rather it is a relevant realisation, as a singular point, that punctuates an on going existential line of inquiry.
Projects / Installation / Sculpture / Performance / Text / Drawing / Print
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