Alexander Sainsbury

Artist Statement

My images are very much about me, even if I am not in the image, the underlying idea to the image is usually something very close to my own life, just glamorized and slightly adapted into a more visually pleasing way.
I decided to undertake a project where I was going to recreate my child hood and adolescent memories. I am a very self-absorbed person! I have under taken projects loosely based on me, and my life before. Such as a project based on me moving away from home and me wanting to be a movie star and placing myself in film stills. So producing images to do with my self is nothing new. My work could come across as very self obsessed and that isn’t far from the truth. I find it a lot easer to draw from personal experiences as a basis to make images from. I have used surrealist ideas and imagery to influence my work. I felt that when I was looking at my memories they had a surreal quality to them. Maybe because the mind, Mixes thoughts and memories together. I thought to my self, how could I place a collective of thoughts and memories into one image. For one specific event I might have a whole group of memories and thoughts. So instead of trying to cram a whole group of thoughts into one image, I decided to make images that were snapshots of the complex narrative in my mind.

Alexander Sainsbury