
Award-winning British multidisciplinary artist Alexandra Gallagher creates striking works that span collage, street art, prints, painting, and mixed media. Her art celebrates the surreal and sublime, delving into the realms of memory, dreams, and imagination. With a strong focus on feminist narratives, Gallagher’s work weaves layers of rich symbolism to tell intricate, surrealist stories that explore inner thoughts, emotions, and societal experiences. Each piece evolves unpredictably, guided by a fluid and organic creative process.
Gallagher’s distinctive style and evocative symbolism have earned her national and international recognition, with exhibitions and sales worldwide. Her accolades include being the Saatchi Showdown Surrealism Second Place Winner, Secret Art Prize Runner-Up in 2016, a finalist for the London Contemporary Art Prize in 2018, and a shortlisted artist for the Rise Art Prize and Zealous X.
Symbolism plays a key role in Gallagher’s work, as she often incorporates motifs such as celestial patterns, lush botanicals, animals, and fragmented human forms. These elements combine to create layered, dreamlike compositions that invite viewers to uncover hidden meanings and personal interpretations. Gallagher describes her process as a way of transforming complex or even challenging themes into something beautiful and thought-provoking.
Gallagher has collaborated with major brands and collectors, including COAST fashion, Crown Paint, Grand Designs, Symphony of the Sea, and Cushman & Wakefield. Her art, described as “Rococo meets the Lower East Side,” is a fusion of trippy surrealism, sleek modern design, and unabashed elegance.
"If New York’s Lower East Side went Rococo, it’d manifest as Alexandra Gallagher’s sleek, trippy, succulent collages. The British artist wields Photoshop like a technicolor sword, slashing up images of flora and fauna into compositions framing subjects sylvan as Kate Moss with backgrounds evoking equal parts zodiac and mod design. Flamingos worthy of Miami gardens cavort alongside landscapes worthy of Kurt Vonnegut, but both share Gallagher’s common touch of the metallic, the lucid, and the unabashedly chic.
It’s Leda and the Swan meets punk rock, which is perhaps why Gallagher lists Artemisia Gentileschi as an influence, despite the seeming gap between their works. “The inspiration behind my work is our experiences as women in western society ... but I didn’t want to put something out there that’s obvious or brutal, I wanted to create something beautiful out of something ugly, but still give a voice,” Gallagher says. Her myriad layers of symbolism, feathers and faded limbs produce a synesthesia of both synthesizers and harpsichords worthy of Artemisia’s admiration - from one woman who wielded formidable swords to another"
(Written by Lauren Amalia Redding)


Exhibitions
Cruel and Tender Art Exhibition - Bricklane Art Gallery London 6th Oct 2010

Mindlands Art Exhibition - Sprout Cafe Blackburn 14th July 2012

Saatchi Gallery London 2012 - 2013

LAN Open Exhibition - Oxheys Mill Studio Preston 13th September 2012
Lincoln Art Works 2012 - 2014
BIC Sculpture - 40th Anniversary -London Victoria Station 23rd January 2014
Bradley Street Stores Blackburn and Liverpool 2014
Salon de Street Art Exhibition 19 – 24 June 2014
PaperGirl Belfast 27th June - 5th July 2014
Best of Salon des Refusés 3 – 13 July 2014
Salon De Street Art II - London 7th August - 27th September 2014
Papergirl Blackburn 6th - 16th November 2014
Affordable Art Fair - Singapore - April 2015
Pixel Lust - UK - March 2015
Blackburn Printfest - Blackburn - May 2015
Best Of Britannia - Preston - May 2015
Unique L.A - Sociale Revolution - L.A - May 2015
Affordable Art Fair Battersea - London -October 2015
Pistol Art Gallery - Glasgow - 2015
Open Art Show - The Bureau, Centre for the Arts - March 2016
Well Hung Gallery - London - 7th April - 19th May 2016
The Bowery - Leeds - 13th May - 29th July 2016
Limited Edition - Blackburn - 20 - 26th June 2016
ES-SEX-HIBTION June until 18 th July - 22nd August 2016
Monker Art Fair - 6th to 9th October 2016
Secret Art Prize Winners Exhibiton - Curious Duke Gallery London - 13th - 29th October 2016
Affordable Art Fair Battersea - 20th - 23rd October 2016
Well Hung Christmas Bizarre - Well Hung Gallery - London - 24th November till 7th December 2016
A Curious Christmas - Curiuos Duke Gallery - London - December 2016
Wall to Wall Gallery - Liverpool - 2016 - 2017
Flora & Fauna - London - 13rd July 2017
BoW Limited Edition ll - Blackburn - 3rd - 15th July 2017
Secret Art Prize 2017 Exhibtion - London - August 2017
Leontia Gallery - London - September 2017
Rise Art Exhibition with CP Hart - London - November 2017
The Gallery at 164 - Leeds - December 2017 to Febuary - 2018
Art For Youth at the Mall Galleries - London - December 2017
Contemporary Art Fairs - Surrey - Febuary - 2018
The Art of Protest Gallery - York - Febuary/March - 2018
Affordable Art Fair - Battersea - March - 2018
Atlantic Contemporary Art Fair - March - 2018
Affordable Art Fair - Hampstead - May - 2018
Art on a Postcard - London - July - 2018
BOW - Blackburn - July - 2018
LCA Exhibition - July/August - 2018
Castle Fine Art - Manchester - August - 2018
Fantasia - Spoke Art Gallery - San Deiago USA - October - 2018
Ace Club - London - November - 2018
Winter Exhibtion - London City Island - December - 2018
Art of Youth - Mall Galleries - London - Demember - 2018
The Circle Gallery - London - Fenuary - 2019
Battersea Spring AAF - London - March - 2019
Trinity Gallery - Leeds - March - 2019
Curious Duke - London - March - 2019
BLKBX - Leeds - March - 2019
Curious Duke - London - April - 2019
The Artistry House - Preston - April - 2019
Saga - Hong Kong - May - 2019
Blacks Club - London - June - 2019
Transcendance - ME London Hotel - London - October November - 2019
Winter - The St Barnabas House - London - October November- 2019
Re-Begining - Think Space Gallery - L.A-November - 2019
Art For Youth - Mall Galleries - London - December - 2019
Solo Exhibition - 60 Threadneedle Street - London - Febuary until late May - 2020
Runway x Fashion Scout Gallery - London Fashion Week - 15th - 17th Febuary - 2020
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HOPE solo show - Camden - April - 2021
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Brighton Fringe - May-June - 2021
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Howarth Gallery - Atlantic Contemporary Art - November - 2021
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Member Collection - Gone Rogue - London -December - 2021
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A Womens Place is Everywhere - London - March - 2022
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Affordable Art Fair Battersea - March - 2022
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Affordable Art Fair Hampstead - May - 2022
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LEAF - London - May 2022
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One Planet One Chance - ZEBRA ONE GALLERY - MAY - 2022
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Illuminate London 18TH NOVEMBER - 15TH JANUARY 2023
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Smolensk Gallery - Manchester - April till June - 2023
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Clitheroe Arts Festival - June - 2023
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Art of Protest Summer Exhibition - 2023
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C-A-K-E Exhibition - Hampstead - London July 2023
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Tous Droits Dans le Mur 2023 - New York - 2023
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Tous Droits Dans le Mur 2023 - Lagos - 2023
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Belmeis London - 2023
Look Up Portsmouth Street Art Festival - September -2023
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House Warming - February - London - 2024
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Tous Droits Dans le Mur - Abridged Wall of Hope - Lagos - March - 2024
Skin & Sanctuary - June - London - 2024
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Clitheroe Art Festival - June - 2024
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TAPS Art Market - Chelmsford - June - 2024
Manchester Art Fair - Manchester - November - 2024
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Awards
Saatchi Showdown Surrealism Second Place Winner
Shortlisted Zealous X 2015
Secret Art Prize Runner Up Winner 2016
Shortlisted for the Rise Art Prize 2017
Finalist in the London Contemporary Art 2018
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Finalist in Women's United Art Prize 2024