Alex Crocker (b.1981) Lives and works in Norwich. He graduated with a BA in Painting from Brighton University in 2005 and an MA in Painting from the RCA IN 2009. He was a participant at de Atelier’s in Amsterdam from 2014-2016 and the Freelands Fellow in Painting at Manchester School of Art in 2022. Selected exhibitions include ...freshly as if my eye was still Growing: A.P.T Gallery, London, 2023, Cuckoo: Freelands Foundation, London, 2023, Windowpane: Oceans Apart Gallery, Manchester, 2022, Exeter Open: Phoenix Gallery, Exeter, 2022, End Cottage, Taco!, London, 2020, Earth Worm, Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam, 2017 and Wyrd, Ana Cristea, New York, 2015.

Crocker creates paintings that are drawn from his immediate surroundings. His daily walks, domestic routines and family life are recorded in simple drawings of birds, bricks, worms, cars, bikes, trees, flowers, cats, people, clouds and windows. These objects are then transformed and distilled, using the material of paint, to create images that are still recognisable but sit at the edge of abstraction.