Alexia Sinclair is an award winning Australian Artist and Photographer. Her distinct style is easily recognisable and highly original. Using a visual narrative to seduce her audience with each photographic feast, Sinclair’s art is dark and seductive, baroque and symbolic. Her multilayered photographs subtly present contemporary notions of fashion and beauty through innovative digital media, whilst restoring antique notions of classicism, elegance and luxury.
Sinclair is an artist who skilfully walks the tightrope that divides the worlds of Fine Art and Commercial Art. Whilst her evocative Fine Art imagery adorns the walls of museums and is held in important art collections, she often translates these skills and signature style into highly polished campaigns in the commercial arena for clients such as Harpers Bazaar and Canon Australia.
Motivated by her love and devotion for all things intricate and unusual, this versatile creative uniquely approaches her creative production by filling all of the roles, from designing sets and props, to makeup and costumes. Sinclair travels the world photographing locations and models and works in post production constructing imagined worlds through the combination of her photographs and hand illustrations.
Completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons I) and Master of Fine Arts, Sinclair is the recipient of a travelling arts scholarship, and two postgraduate scholarships. She has worked in New York as a digital artist and exhibited in numerous exhibitions including at the Australian Centre for Photography and the Art Gallery of NSW.
The jewel of Sinclair’s crown belongs to her celebrated series The Regal Twelve. This complex series portrays historical Queens combining contemporary notions of beauty and fashion with traditional fine art techniques to explore the lives and contrasts of twelve fascinating women. Inspired by the masters of renaissance art, Sinclair’s series tells a historical tale through a myriad of delicious symbols and motifs. Designed to define these contrasts, these symbols unleash historical realities within the guise of fantasy montage creating truths within the untrue. This acclaimed series won three national awards in 2007 for their innovation and is now touring the world.
Alexia Sinclair propose une nouvelles série photographique très inspirée, qui a été prise dans le Château Skokloster, en Suède. Certaines parties de l'édifice étant gelées à cette époque, la série s'appelle A Frozen Tale. Tout commence lorsque le musée Royal des Armures contacte la photographe, souhaitant utiliser ses portraits de la Reine Christina (issus de The Regal Twelve, des images de reines célèbres) pour une exposition. Elle a alors l'idée de demander à photographier une vraie princesse suédoise. Refus du Palais Royal, mais une proposition lui est faite : utiliser un château pour ses photos.
Dans ce chef d'oeuvre sans chauffage ni électricit&eac...
During the Swedish Age of Greatness in the mid 17th century, count Carl Custaf Wrangel commissioned a majestic castle to be built on Lake Mälaren, 80km from Stockholm.
Considered to be one the finest examples of baroque architecture in all of Europe, Skokloster Slott houses vast collections of paintings, antiques, tapestries, weaponry and rare books.
So famous was the count, that Queen Christina of Sweden was regularly seen visiting the powerful military commander at Skokloster Slott. Italian diplomat Lorenzo Magalotti even visited Skokloster, controversially describing Wrangel in his book "Sweden in the year 1674" as behaving like a continental prince.
During the colder months, the giant lake completely freezes over, and with it, the sumptuous contents of the castle have been frozen in time...