19 March - 12 April 2025

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Alex Stone
Impart

Statement 

Alex Stone’s practice- which involves sculpture, interventions and performance - physically retraces memories and place in an attempt to address notions of absence and learn from “the fleeting”.

Thinking of space as a palimpsest in which traces of what has gone before remain (even though they might have been overwritten), enables Stone to question how we are embedded within our surroundings.

They employ processes of [de][re]construction, retracing spaces and objects of memories to explore their particular qualities. They consider the underlying networks of connection.

Ultimately looking for a point of ‘unfolding’ in which both the event and materials can hold an expanded and universal narrative. For Impart, Stone considers tensions at play within the domestic realm and narrative layers passed through familial ties. Starting from the memory of coming out to their mother and working with cast and found objects Stone uses light and smell to consider how the interaction was navigated and the way that time and space offers alternative perspectives.

Throughout the process of making they questioned what informed their mothers response and how this in turn shapes and informs Stone’s own interactions with their partners children.

Artist Bio

Alex Stone is an artist working with sculpture, interventions and performance, living in London and regularly visiting their partner in Tarntanya/Adelaide.

Originally trained in theatre design, Stone has taken this desire to reimagine and alter spaces to physically retraces memories and place in an attempt to address notions of absence and to learn from “the fleeting”

Recently completing an MA in Fine Art at City and Guilds London Art School, this exhibition at FELTSpace is their first time exhibiting outside of Europe. They are currently AIR in the UniSA Contemporary Art Glass workshop and will be showing the resulting work

at Sauerbier House from Mid May.