Alex Frost (artist) explained

Alex Frost
Birth Name:	Alexis Frost
Birth Place:	Tottenham, London, England
Nationality:	English
Field:	Sculpture, Drawing
Training:	Glasgow School of Art, Staffordshire University^[1]

Alex Frost is a British contemporary artist, exhibiting internationally.

Background

Alex Frost currently lives and works in Manchester, UK where he teaches Art and Design at The University of Salford.

Exhibitions

Frost's often humorous work addresses the fluid boundaries between public and private space, the virtual and physical, the temporal and permanent. He is best known for his large mosaic sculptures that depict product packaging and branding. These have been included in exhibitions at Dundee Contemporary Arts, Venice Biennale, Milton Keynes Gallery, Studio Voltaire and Frieze Sculpture Park.

In 2018, he devised ‘Wet Unboxing’, a series of videos he uploaded onto YouTube.^[2] In these videos he opened products underwater. The products were all symbolic of a life on the go’, a lifestyle of super-convenience. Vice Motherboard described these videos as ‘a proto-meme—a precious, terrifying embryo—of the next new trend’.^[3]

Residencies

In 2015 he was Phynance Resident^[4] at Flat Time House, London. His other residencies include Cove Park,^[5] Scotland in 2014; The Walled Garden,^[6] Glasgow in 2013; AIR Antwerpen,^[7] Belgium in 2010; Glenfiddich Artist Residency,^[8] Dufftown, Scotland in 2009; Artsway,^[9] Hampshire in 2007; Spike Island, Bristol^[10] in 2002 and Grizedale Arts,^[11] Cumbria in 2000.

Collaborations

In addition to his independent art practice he has been involved in a number of artistic collaborations. Notably, the devising and running of the artist-run radio station Radiotuesday (1998-2002)^[12] with Duncan Campbell (artist) and Mark Vernon; Wave Rhythm by Louis Braille (2012)^[13] with Stephen Livingstone from Errors (band), a limited edition flexi-disc single generated using a hybrid analogue/digital music and drawing machine and Flourish Nights (2001)^[14] a season of screenings and performances organised with the artists Lucy McKenzie, Sophie Macpherson and Julian Kildear.

Collections

Frost's work is held in numerous private and public collections with his mosaic sculpture Adult (Ryvita/Crackerbread)(2007) in the collection of Glasgow Museums^[15]

Further reading

• Josephine Berry, Claire Louise Staunton, Property Guardian (Flat Time House, London), 2015.
• Paul Becker, Future Spotters (Wewerka Pavilion, Muenster), 2013
• Drawing Biennial 2013 (Drawing Room, London), 2013
• AIR Traces, (AIR Antwerpen, Belgium), 2013
• 100 Years, 100 Artists, 100 Works of Art, (Art On The Underground, London), 2012.
• Soul Seekers: Interpreting the Icon (Trinity Museum, New York), 2012.
• Industrial Aesthetics; Environmental Influences on Recent Art from Scotland (The Times Square Gallery, New York), 2011.
• Drawn In (Travelling Gallery, Edinburgh), 2011.
• Graham Domke, The Connoisseurs (Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee), 2010.
• Artists at Glenfiddich 09, (The Glenfiddich Distillery, Dufftown, Scotland), 2010.
• Finger Buffet (Travelling Gallery, Scotland), 2009.
• Jerwood Sculpture Prize (Jerwood Visual Arts, London), 2009.
• Artsway's New Forest Pavilion (Artsway, Sway), 2008.
• Will Bradley, Supplements (Sorcha Dallas, Milton Keynes Gallery and Artsway), 2008.
• Karla Black, 1973 (The Changing Room, Stirling), 2004.
• Synth (Kunstraum B/2, Germany), 2004.
• East International (Norwich Gallery, Norwich), 2003.
• Karla Black, Alex Frost, An American Conversation (Cooper Gallery, DJCAD, Dundee), 2003.
• Presence (The Fruitmarket gallery, Edinburgh).
• Happy Outsiders from London and Scotland (Zacheta Panstwowa Gallery, Warsaw), 2002.
• Hero (St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow), 2002.
• Half the World Away (Hallwalls contemporary Arts Center), 2002.
• Rob Tufnell, For Example (Spike Island, Bristol), 2002.
• Transmission, (Transmission Gallery, Glasgow), 2002.

External links

• Alex Frost's website
• An essay by Josephine Berry to accompany Alex Frost's Property Guardian publication.
• Alex Frost's profile page on the Artist Pension Trust
• Alex Frost introduces his exhibition 'Reproduction'
• Outset Scotland's page on The Patrons, an exhibition at Cove Park, Scotland.
• Video documentation of The Connoisseurs at DCA, Scotland
• Adult an exhibition at MK Gallery
• review in Frieze magazine
• Alex Frost In Dialogue with Steven Cox from Hunted Projects

Notes and References

1. Web site: Alex Frost City & Guilds London Art School . www.cityandguildsartschool.ac.uk . 14 October 2022.
2. Web site: Alex Frost. YouTube. en. 2018-09-06.
3. News: I Can't Stop Watching These Disgusting 'Wet Unboxing' Videos. 2018-08-22. Motherboard. 2018-09-06. en-us.
4. Web site: PHYNANCE RESIDENCY 2015 ARTIST ANNOUNCED | Projects | Flat Time House.
5. Web site: Alex Frost « Cove Park.
6. Web site: Bothy Project | A network of small-scale, off-grid art residency spaces in distinct and diverse locations around Scotland.
7. Web site: Alex Frost | AIR Antwerpen. 5 May 2023 .
8. Web site: Arts and Business Scotland.
9. Web site: MK Gallery – Alex Frost . 6 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160419220609/http://www.mkgallery.org/exhibitions/frost/ . 19 April 2016 . dead .
10. Web site: Archived copy . 6 March 2016 . 20 April 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160420173318/http://www.scottisharts.org.uk/1/artsinscotland/visualarts/features/featuresarchive/artistalexfrost.aspx . dead .
11. Web site: Grizedale Arts: Opportunities: Volunteer Commission 2021.
12. Web site: Mark Vernon :: Meagre Resource :: Sound Artist . 6 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160828092817/http://meagreresource.com/radio/projects/radiotues.html . 28 August 2016 . dead .
13. Web site: Parallel Worlds: Errors vs Alex Frost | the Skinny.
14. Web site: Sorcha Dallas · Press · Alex Frost: Neil Mulholland, 'Aperto Scotland', Flash Art, 01/2002.
15. Web site: Glasgow Museums Collections Online.