Alex Grant uses paint, performance and poetry to make art while thinking about censorship, perception and consciousness.
Raised in Hackham West by puppeteers, Alex put himself through engineering school as a graphician for educational computer games on the Commodore Amiga. As an academic, inventor and entrepreneur, he played around with mathematical theories of wireless data transmission, connected cars and stuff in space.
Alex is studying at Adelaide Central School of Art.
Urban Palimpsest forages compositions from effaced graffiti, reimagining acts of erasure as public art and interrogating the institutions who decide which marks endure.
Gallery M
9 January - 7 February 2026
Opening
Friday 9 January 2026
Guest Speaker Anna Gore
Welcome at 6pm
Gallery will be open 5:45-8pm
Meet the Artist
1pm Saturday 17 January 2026
Gallery M | Marion Cultural Centre | 287 Diagonal Rd, Oaklands Park
Found Composition 2
Showcasing the 2025 cohort of Bachelor of Visual Art (Honours) and Bachelor of Visual Art graduates.
Read my essay about my paintings We Are All Machines
Adelaide Central School of Art
13 – 24 December 2025; 5 – 8 January 2026 Mon – Fri 9 – 5pm
Opening
Saturday 13 December, 4-6pm
Jason Smith, Director of the Art Gallery of South Australia will officially open the exhibition
Adelaide Central School of Art | 7 Mulberry Road, Glenside
Untitled (0xF80080)
Mezzanine 55
14 - 30 November 2025
Featuring 25 Artists
To be opened by Christopher Orchard
Date: 14th November 2025
Time: 6.00 to 8.30pm
The Mezz Galleries | 55 Rundle Street | Kent Town
Auto-redaction of no more fucks to give, 7 July 2025
Solo Exhibition
Mezzanine 55
30 May - 15 June 2025
Artist in Conversation
with Danni Zuvela, Artistic Director Adelaide Contemporary Experimental
2pm Saturday 7 June 2025
Durational painting performance no more fucks to give as part of Push/Pull
Adelaide Contemporary Experimental, 24th May 2025.
Photo: Christina Peeks
Photo: Morgan Sette
Photo: Alex Grant
Four-week FREE workshop series at LabRats aimed at interdisciplinary creatives with a focus on music production, participants will be introduced to the basics of Arduino and build their own hardware unit to take home (Arduino starter kit included).
All coure materials are open source and available on GitHub.
Tuesday 13 May: Introduction to Arduino
Tuesday 20 May: MIDI
Tuesday 27 May: Modular Synthesis
Tuesday 3 June: Homebrew MIDI Controllers
I spent one year writing poems on a wall.
Then I deleted words until I found a new one.
Performance at Adelaide Central School of Art, May 2024
Solo Exhibition 2023
Extreme environments require careful planning and specialised support systems, just to exist. The thread that connects us together is tangible. On reflection, the same is true at home, but we mostly don't notice.
Sea to Summit (Antarctica)
watercolour on Arches
76x56cm
Mt Abel Approach (New Zealand)
watercolour on Arches
76x56cm
Schreckhorn (Switzerland)
oil on canvas
75x111cm
Artificial intelligence will either be the best thing, or the worst thing to happen to humanity. Anthropomorpheus is my response to a series of long-form interviews held with ChatGPT during August 2023.
anthropomorpheus
Installation View
I turned the entire art school into a video game.
Adelaide Central School of Art, 2023.