Award-winning British multidisciplinary artist Alexandra Gallagher creates striking works that span collage, street art, prints, painting, and mixed media. Her art celebrates the surreal and sublime, delving into the realms of memory, dreams, and imagination. With a strong focus on feminist narratives, Gallagher’s work weaves layers of rich symbolism to tell intricate, surrealist stories that explore inner thoughts, emotions, and societal experiences. Each piece evolves unpredictably, guided by a fluid and organic creative process.

Gallagher’s distinctive style and evocative symbolism have earned her national and international recognition, with exhibitions and sales worldwide. Her accolades include being the Saatchi Showdown Surrealism Second Place Winner, Secret Art Prize Runner-Up in 2016, a finalist for the London Contemporary Art Prize in 2018, and a shortlisted artist for the Rise Art Prize and Zealous X.

Symbolism plays a key role in Gallagher’s work, as she often incorporates motifs such as celestial patterns, lush botanicals, animals, and fragmented human forms. These elements combine to create layered, dreamlike compositions that invite viewers to uncover hidden meanings and personal interpretations. Gallagher describes her process as a way of transforming complex or even challenging themes into something beautiful and thought-provoking.

Gallagher has collaborated with major brands and collectors, including COAST fashion, Crown Paint, Grand Designs, Symphony of the Sea, and Cushman & Wakefield. Her art, described as “Rococo meets the Lower East Side,” is a fusion of trippy surrealism, sleek modern design, and unabashed elegance.

"If New York’s Lower East Side went Rococo, it’d manifest as Alexandra Gallagher’s sleek, trippy, succulent collages. The British artist wields Photoshop like a technicolor sword, slashing up images of flora and fauna into compositions framing subjects sylvan as Kate Moss with backgrounds evoking equal parts zodiac and mod design. Flamingos worthy of Miami gardens cavort alongside landscapes worthy of Kurt Vonnegut, but both share Gallagher’s common touch of the metallic, the lucid, and the unabashedly chic.

It’s Leda and the Swan meets punk rock, which is perhaps why Gallagher lists Artemisia Gentileschi as an influence, despite the seeming gap between their works. “The inspiration behind my work is our experiences as women in western society ... but I didn’t want to put something out there that’s obvious or brutal, I wanted to create something beautiful out of something ugly, but still give a voice,” Gallagher says. Her myriad layers of symbolism, feathers and faded limbs produce a synesthesia of both synthesizers and harpsichords worthy of Artemisia’s admiration - from one woman who wielded formidable swords to another" 

(Written by Lauren Amalia Redding)