Alexa Mickell
By Anna Doran-Read
“I hope the viewers interpret the intimate and strange exercise that is recreating childhood images once adults.” - Alexa Mickell for New Grads Show
Alexa Mickell graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from Whitecliffe College of Art and Design in 2012. Her series, Wondering as Opposed to Understanding is currently being exhibited in New Grads Show, on at Corban Estate Arts Centre until 24th February.
The main themes in Alexa’s photographs are memory, the archive and autobiography. She sees herself as a modern-day storyteller, reconstructing memories from her childhood to display them from an adult perspective. The photographs work in an autobiographical way, yet they are anonymous and also completely random, so the viewer can take their own personal stories away from them. Of the viewer’s reaction to the photographs, Alexa said, “I hope the viewers interpret the intimate and strange exercise that is recreating childhood images once adults.”
A work from this series was bought by the James Wallace Arts Trust from Alexa’s graduation exhibition. Alexa lives in West Auckland and this year she received a scholarship to continue her study at Whitecliffe to gain her Masters in Fine Arts.
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Alexa Mickell, Bubble beard (2012)
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