Born in 1980, Alex Whaley-Smith attended Auckland University of
Technology, graduating with a Bachelor of Visual Art in 2003,
before continuing her studies to complete a Postgraduate Diploma in
Secondary Teaching at Auckland University in 2005. She is currently
teaching in the faculty of Performing Arts at Rangitoto College in
Auckland.
Whaley-Smith's work combines the processes of painting,
photography and film to create work that explores the points of
connection for visual technologies. Her most recent series
'Pixelated World' investigates the process of painting
through the ultra-magnification and consequent de-resolution of
the painted surface that is the floor of the artist's studio - a
culmination of the detritus, leftovers and the by-products of the
finished image.
Whaley-Smith is an experienced exhibitor and curator, having
participated in a number of group shows and curating three
exhibitions in Auckland in the last four years. Her works are held
in numerous private collections throughout New Zealand and Hong
Kong.