Alexander Bartleet

Alexander Bartleet is best known for his works on canvas. Using thousands of real objects ranging from old door hinges to plastic toys and old jewelry. He covers the canvas in the objects and then renders them in various layered colours, patterns and textures.

Alexander says he is attracted to things that show evidence of their past, exposing sediments, histories and provenances. He prefers to use found objects, as opposed to their transferred or representational images. Preserved within the surfaces of paint, disregarded and forgotten objects are presented in a new light.