Alejandra Ramirez is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Nambucca Heads Australia and originally from Colombia. She creates mixed media work using photography, installation, painting, writing & fibre art. With an interest in the various forms of language and the creation of meaning, she is intrigued by concepts of perception, representation, the relationship between the sensorial and the rational, memory, and the different layers of reality in relation to human experience. She has exhibited and created work in Colombia, Australia,Nepal, Malaysia and Indonesia.
My work is a constant contemplation and reflection on how we use language to exist and perceive. I am deeply intrigued by how different forms of language can reveal so much about our experience of the world and everything within it. I often take an analytical linguistic approach to examine a specific subject, which extends into psychoanalytic, experiential, corporeal, symbolic, and metaphorical explorations through writing, movement, and the physical act of making and unmaking with objects and found materials.
I typically begin with a single word, and from there I uncover a universe of ideas and emotions that allow me to deepen my understanding of the subject at hand. This process leads me to create immersive, surreal, and thought-provoking installations that may include natural materials, found objects, photographs, words, movement, and textiles.
I’m interested in creating works that respond to the place in which they are made, and in collaborating with the spaces, people, and objects that inhabit them. Over time, I’ve developed a multidisciplinary practice in which the artistic media I use are also in dialogue with the space that contains them.
Contact:
alejaramrz@gmail.com
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025- “Desdoblada”, Glasshouse Gallery, Port Macquarie, NSW.
2023- “Hybrid” , Archive Mid North Coast, Toormina, NSW
2018- “Tunjos” ,Masaya hostel, Bogota, Colombia
2018- “Mi piel” & “La Ofrenda”, as part of Ventana fiesta, Frankston Art Centre, VIC
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 - “Un capullo en las nubes” , ArteSumapaz, San Bernardo, Colombia.
2025- “In Skin”, Roto House, Port Macquarie, NSW.
2024- “Riposte” ,South Coast Regional Art Centre, Goolwa, SA.
2024- “The unseen”, Fyreside Art Space, Coffs Harbour, NSW
2024- “Northern Exposure”, Glasshouse Gallery, Port Macquarie, NSW
2023- CCP x Hahnemühle Summer Salon, Centre of Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, NSW
2023- National Still Life Exhibition, Yarrila Arts & Museum, Coffs Harbour, NSW
2023-“Paste-up Photography exhibition” Emerging Artists Collective, Melbourne, VIC
2022- “Place” Photo Exhibition, Nambucca Valley Phoenix, Bowraville, NSW
2022- “All the small things” Alykat creative gallery, Coffs Harbour, NSW
2022- “Who let the flies in” Good Bank Gallery, McLaren Vale, SA
2017- “Emergence” Photography graduate show, Phoenix Gallery, Deakin University, VIC
GRANTS/RESIDENCIES
2025- (Upcoming) Art residency at Farm Studio, Rajasthan, India.
2025- Bogotá Art Intensive, The Art Dome, Bogotá, Colombia.
2025- Art residency at Arte Sumapaz, San Bernardo, Colombia.
2024- Installation artist at Melaka Art & Performance Festival, Malaysia, supported by Regional NSW Quick Response Grant
2023- Country Arts Support Program Grant
2022- Creative Recovery Community Projects Grant
2018- “White dress narratives” Frankston Art Centre, Melbourne, VIC
PRIZES
2023- Finalist, National Still Life Award, Yarrilla Arts & Museum. Coffs Harbour, NSW, collaboration with Jack Hodges.
COMMUNITY/PUBLIC ART/OTHER PROJECTS
2025- School holiday program, Props making, Bowraville,NSW
2024- School Holiday mural & Workshop, Kempsey Library, NSW
2024- The Mooral & The big thing, Mural & Sculptural summer workshops, Bowraville, NSW
2023-Toyota Corolla 88, Youth Activity, Yarrila Arts & Museum, Coffs Harbour, NSW
2023-Cardboard Kingswood, Youth activity, Gum ball festival, Dashville, NSW.
2023-Holden ute, Interactive cardboard sculpture, Macleay youth laneway festival, Kempsey, NSW.
2023-From the Mountains to the Sea, Kempsey Laneway revitalisation project, Mural painting, Kempsey, NSW.
2023-Let’s Zine about it, Workshop,Creative recovery network, Nambucca Heads, NSW.
2022-Cardboard Commi, Youth activity, Scotts head, NSW
2022-Imaginary plants, Winter Holiday program, Bowraville, NSW
2022-Cardboard Commi, Youth activity, Nambucca heads, NSW
2020- Karribydyikarrmeren, Community mural, Corrugated Iron, Gunbalanya, NT
2019-Keep Maningrida clean, Community mural, as part of Micro galleries Global day of creative action. Maningrida, NT
2019-Lotus Hands, Mural painting, Kaalo Art Centre, Patan, Nepal
2019- Everyday shots, Photography & wall paste-up, Yuendumu, NT
2018- Selva en la ciudad, Mural painting, Fundatempo Non for Profit, Bogota, Colombia
2013-2017- Performer, dancer, make up and costume artist, Tunjos y Cantaros Ethnologic Dance Group, Melbourne, Australia
WORK EXPERIENCE
2022- 2025- Arts Coordinator/Gallery curator, Nambucca Valley Phoenix, Bowraville, NSW
2020- 2022- Studio Coordinator, Injalak Arts & Crafts, Gunbalanya, NT
2018-2020- Arts worker, Warlukurlangu Arts Centre, Yuendumu, NT