Blue Mountains Artists Connection: Member Profile

Alexis Apfelbaum

Bury My Heart..., 2005, Collage Acrylic and Mixed Media on board

Alexis Apfelbaum
Sculptor, painter, collage and mixed media artist

Alexis Apfelbaum has been a practicing artist for over 20 years. She has exhibited in many group shows including The Gasworks Outdoor Sculpture show in Melbourne in 1996. In 1983 she won The Ure Smith Prize for art for her Chinese ink drawings of monkeys and she received a scholarship from the Bathurst Regional Art Gallery Society for oil painting in 1991.

Alexis was invited to have a 2-person show of her soft sculpture work Journey home (a huge hammock made of 14 futon mattresses) at Muswellbrook Regional Art Centre in 2003. She also has a permanent sandstone sculpture at Wentworth Fall Lakes in the Blue Mountains.

Alexis came from a background in oil painting and drawing, studying with the late David Brian Wilson in Central West NSW (a teacher from Julian Ashtons School of Arts). When she relocated to the Blue Mountains, she then began to work in the area of sculpture, collage and mixed media.

On her most recent work in collage and mixed media Alexis says:
bq. Theres no better way Ive found to express my imagination. I can create my own little universes, occupied by their own strange characters and beings by putting the pictures and bits and pieces I find together, not unlike directing a movie or setting up the props in a theatrical production.

Into White, 2005, Collage and Acrylic on board

Blue Woman, 2004, Collage on board

Journey Home, 2003, 14 Futon mattresses, bamboo, hemp rope.