About

I'm a multidisciplinary artist based near London, but originally from Northumbria.

I make work based around found images. I am particularly interested in historical sources which repeat tropes. I use collage, film, painting, drawing and installation to collect and skew visual imagery as it reinforces patriarchal or hierarchal norms. I am interested in visual imagery as conditioning.I have questioned the passive voice of Mrs De Winter in a short film based on excerpts of the casting process from Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca, conducted an epistolary postcard love affair via the medium of collage and Roland Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse, and produced a hand drawn Toile du Jouy wallpaper of violent Hollywood Golden age clinches in the wake of Me Too. I have produced a pantheon of Little Gods by taking a sharpie to the Madonna and Child throughout the National Gallery’s collection (again via postcard) and investigated Hollywood goddesses through collage and made a collage a day for the whole of 2022 in which I bated Instagram to ban classical nipples. Current projects include an investigation of academic drawing practice, paintings which draw on the artists model and muse, and a continuing drawing and collage practice as strategy for understanding my own gaze.

Exhibitions & Projects

2024 Fragmentary Forms: A New History of Collage by Dr Freya Gowrley, Princeton University Press (cover art and inside spread)

2023 MISSIVE solo show, RUPTURExibit, London

Everything Glowed with a Gleam; And Yet We Were Looking Away Redlees Gallery

2022

MISSIVE, collage project comprised of 365 individual postcard collages. The missive is a message, letter or a long and onerous correspondence, from the latin missus, “to send”. Each collage began with a blank postcard (a message not sent), and throughout the year vintage references were added; classical statuary, modernist forms from Architectural Review, and figure references from old hollywood, glamour nudes and art photography. This process of making follows an imposed structure while mapping the margins of the nude. Pushing at the form, the gesture, the patriarchal structures around and constructing it exploring liminal spaces, edges, negative spaces and openings.

‘Missive’ chapbook published by Paperview

2021 Restriction (web based)

2018 Rules of Freedom, Collier Bristow Gallery, London

So fa mi la ti do, Perimeter Space, Griffin Gallery, London

IN QUOTES, Gerald Moore Gallery, London

2017 IN QUOTES, East Gallery, NUA

Something Borrowed, Arthouse1, London

IN SEARCH OF SMOOTH TIME, duo show, ArtLacuna Space, London
A collaborative two person exhibition with ceramic fine artist Jane Harris.
What’s desired in the Vita Nova associated with the Work is a particular type of time, a particular kind of daily temporality; the writer must, almost despite himself, bind himself to a time with no rough patches, no “disturbances”…indeed, what he wants—an almost mystical, paradisical desire—is a smooth time: a time with no endpoint, with no expiration date, which contains, for instance, no appointments, no “things to do” to interrupt the thing to be done… (Barthes: 2011/216)
Desire & Procrastination
Alex March and Jane Harris would like to invite you to consider how, when and where an artist makes work.
Using a wry reading of Roland Barthes’ The Preparation of The Novel to reflect on the process of making (or not making) this installation presents the accumulated evidence of March’s sporadic making. Small and large collage and paper pieces which reflect on a practise rooted in and often disturbed by the domestic. These pieces will be brought together in the space as part of the process of installing as she goes in search of smooth time.

The Bomb Factory Film Festival III, The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, London

Undead Painters Painting Forum, Saturation Point, London

In Plain Sight, Shefest, Chapel Walk Gallery, Sheffield

2016

A LOVERS DISCOURSE
A blog documenting a year long correspondence with Roland Barthes’ text, A Lover’s Discourse.
Each week of 2016 I posted one new postcard into the virtual postbox (a tumblr blog) and pinned it, offered up for the lover’s regard.
Barthes’ text dissects and discusses each element of a love affair, documenting obliquely his own love life, and exploring the literary and philosophical basis for his thoughts on each moment.
This project was designed to keep me making art whilst at home with a new baby, and became a key developmental step towards my current postcard and small collage practice.

Counter_Fitters, Geddes Gallery, London

Procreate Project, Women’s Art library, Goldsmiths University & Lace Gallery, Nottingham & MOM conference, Manhattan College New York

Visible Women, Redlees Studios, TW7

2015 Spectrum/Playing With Identity,Liverpool Radical Film Festival, Liverpool

The Male Gaze : Women on Screen, The Feminist Library, London

2014 Bodies That Matter part 2,ArtLacuna Space, SW11, London

Hinterlands and Frontiers, London Short Film Festival, ICA, London

2013 Bodies That Matter, Space Station Sixty-five, Kennington, London

C The Film, Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Creekside Open, selected by Ceri Hand, APT Gallery, Deptford

The Revolution Will Not be Televised, ArtLacuna Space, SW11, London.

2013-2015

ARTLACUNA SPACE Founder and director of artist-led studio and project/exhibition space.
In response to losing studios to developers a plan was forged to develop a pop-up art project. From this original idea, with my three co-founders a small coroner’s office in Clapham Junction was converted with a grant from Wandsworth Council into a multi-use art space. Shared studio space, and a project space with shop window frontage played host to a varied program of events devised and run by us. This included mini film festivals, group and solo shows, collaborative and experimental projects, student mentoring, talks, seminars and workshops.

2012 Paper Nautilus, Nautilus Press, Southern Row, W10.

Exhibit D, Bearspace, Deptford.

Creative Cities Collection, The Barbican Arts Centre, London.

Trace, Motorcade/FlashParade, Bristol.

Curing Nostalgia, Remedies for a Historical Emotion, Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu, Romania & Atelier 35, Strada Seleri, Bucharest, Romania

Bringing Home the Art, Deptford X

What Remains (Solo Show), The China Shop, Oxford

Lost Properties, Fringe Arts Bath

Future Map 11, Zabludowicz Collection

Crash Open Salon, Charlie Dutton Gallery

2011 MA Show, WCA, SW19

Print and Design Now! SW1 Gallery,