Alex March
@alexmarchartist.bsky.social
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Artist, art lecturer, worrier UK based collagist, painter and maker of small beautiful things. www.alexmarch.com
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Today is publication day of Fragmentary Forms, A New History of Collage by Freya Gowrley. I’m thrilled to be included in the book, and to have my little collage as cover star of such a beautiful and scholarly title. One for your Christmas wish list.
A book cover featuring a collage A finger tracing the index of a book Interior pages of a book featuring collages Interior pages of a book featuring collages
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These analogue collages made in 2021 are now available to purchase via the website shop. Goddesses, blooms, monstrous bodies and models all sliced and stuck back together with my gluey fingers in the studio.
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Another oil study after Euan Uglow. This study is after “Still Life with cast” from 1960.

“After Euan, Cast”, Alex March, 2025, oil on vintage book cover, 28.5 x 19.5cm
An oil painting in muted tones of a cast of a partial figure in the classical style, painted on grubby lilac cloth textured background Text in this pic: Another oil study after Euan Uglow. This study is after “Still Life with cast” from 1960. I have removed the studio setting in this study, and used a gridding out method to place the cast on my vintage book cover support. I really enjoy the grubby faded violet of the support where it shows through the painting.

“After Euan, Cast”, Alex March, 2025, oil on vintage book cover, 28.5 x 19.5cm
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This week in the studio, an oil study after Euan Uglow. In “Double square, double square”
In recent paintings I wipe back the areas of the painting to reveal the original support, a vintage black book cover.

“Floored, after Euan.” Alex March 2025 oil on vintage book cover, 36.5 x 26cm
An oil painting of a female figure curled on a chequered tiled floor painted almost in monochrome, mostly yellow, black and white Text: This week in the studio, an oil study after Euan Uglow. In “Double square, double square” 1980-83 Uglow used a composition twice as wide as it is tall, the double square of the title. 

I was drawn to painting a version of this nude partly because I love Uglow, the stillness, the flat crisp exactitude of his painting. Mainly though I couldn’t help thinking she looks a bit cold. And it can’t be at all comfortable lying there like that. 

The perspective was tricky, the floor tiles disappear away at a slight angle, almost pivoting around the centrally fixed figure. In Uglow’s original there are the characteristic measuring lines. I’ve omitted these as I don’t work like that. In my study I wipe back the darkest areas of the painting to reveal the original support, a vintage black book cover. 

Most of my recent oil studies have been on recycled supports like this. I prepare them with a clear sealant before painting to give the paint the right adhesion. 

“Floored, after Euan.” Alex March 2025 oil on vintage book cover, 36.5 x 26cm
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The fact that these guys take themselves seriously, and ARE taken seriously by others is just depressing.
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I suspect many seeing the above might come independently to the same response, it’s instinctive.
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Access support for Arts Council England:
If you're Deaf, disabled, neurodivergent or are experiencing poor health, & are looking for support to submit an ACE Project Grants app, we have some capacity this Spring! 🌸

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Mark Rothko, Untitled (Yellow and Blue), 1954, private collection
Abstract painting with a band blue sandwiched between two bands of golden yellow, the top one thick and the bottom one much thinner. The borders between the colors are rough.
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Your outie understands when someone is making a joke on the internet and doesn't embarrass themselves in people's replies
Ms Casey from Severance
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Discovered over on instagram that the wonderful Fragmentary Forms is only on display in the MOMA shop! My little collage made it to Moma! (Ish!) 😁
A display of art books for sale in a book shop including Fragmentary Forms, a new history of collage featuring a collage on the cover art by little old me
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Hello, I’m Chloe the person and I’ve put these four recent oil pastel drawings on my website so now they’re for sale and someone could buy them. #art

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White horse on green and blue messiness, nice, oil pastel, pink mouth Small houses in a terrace, oil pastel, townscape, burgundy and beige, messy oil pastel House and horse, delicate colours, more naive, strange floating, oil pastel Rabbit and spider, dark, big old mess, oil pastel
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New Aardman character drops: she's not mad, she's just very disappointed 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

This is the 7,500-year-old "Red-haired Goddess", in the National Museum, Belgrade. It was found near Odžaci, Serbia 😁
A photo of a an ancient figurine, with exaggerated hips and bum, and boobs. Her arms are on her hips as if she's about to give you a good telling off
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At the John Soane Museum in London on Saturday, Soane was a collector (pillager) and took items from Pompeii, when the docent mentioned this an Italian visitor said there’s a superstition about items from Pompeii bringing misfortune unless they were returned. (Soane did suffer tragedy in his life)
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I really need to finish revamping my website but it feels like such a chore.

I know it’s part of the job but it’s Bo-ring. 🥱
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Posted because Bluesky keeps censoring my other stuff.
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Some older collages from back in the day. Powerblouse (Barbara Stanwyck) is available as a limited edition print. www.alexmarch.com/shop/power-b...
A collage featuring a black and white woman reflected in a mirror, her face is collaged in a kaleidoscope of technicolour flowers. A collage of Barbara Stanwyck in back and white. Her blouse is a collaged kaleidoscope of technicolour flowers. A collage of mirrored black and white female heads from old Hollywood, on a background of striped collage orange flowers. A vibrant technicolour portrait of a woman on an orange background, her face is a kaleidoscope of orange a one pink flowers.
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He is prepared to do the thing, but the price will be rather high.
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I made some pastel drawings recently inspired by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres The Turkish Bath. “The Boys Club I and II.” 40cm dia. Delicious Sennelier soft pastel on industrial filter paper. More incoming.
Pastel drawing on circular paper Pastel drawing on circular paper Painting in circular format by Ingres.
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I queued, I saw, I conquered. Admired and occluded reflections, stolen glances, Venus Pudendica and cobwebbed at the nape. All at the Sir John Soane Museum at Lincoln’s Inn Field.
Classical bust of a goddess reflected in a circular convex mirror on a red background. The darkened reflections of marble and plaster friezes captured in a foxed and mottled convex mirror Classical bust of a female figure lit from above, highlighting cobwebs draping her neck Bronze bust of Venus covering herself lit dramatically (photographed in the crypt of the museum)