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Alanna Paxton is an Australian artist based between Melbourne and Mexico City. She works across drawing, painting, sculpture and installation to explore how internal states can evolve into external structures, surfaces and systems.
Central to her work is the study of rhythm, disruption and interaction as ways of tracing how perception moves between sensation, feeling and meaning. Through gestural, material and spatial sequences, Paxton develops scores that register the body’s ongoing negotiation with its environments. Her practice hinges upon the observation of patterns and influence: how interactions between materials, processes and contexts generate new ways of imagining.
Alongside her material works, Alanna is developing a participatory card-based drawing system that guides collective mark-making and attention. Through rhythm, constraint and variation, the framework explores how perception and meaning arise through shared processes of experimentation.
Engaging with the legacy of modernist abstraction while resisting its narratives of progress, Alanna approaches making as a method for translating and reorganising experience; opening spaces for curiosity and novelty.
Alanna completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at the Victorian College of Art in 2022. She was selected for the HATCHED National Graduate Show at PICA in 2022. She was the recipient of the John Vickery Scholarship in 2020, Majlis Art Award in 2021 and the Stuart Black Memorial Scholarship 2022.