Alexander Hoyles, Kat/Cat, Digital, archival Giclée print on...

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Alexander Hoyles, Kat/Cat, Digital, archival Giclée print on Hahnemühle photo rag 63 x 42 cm, framed), Edition of 3, archival Giclée prints, Richard Coward Scottish Portrait Award in Photography Finalist 2022

In the past I've given my time to make some portraits backstage for the new graduate of the GSA fashion and textiles degrees - though I hadn't done so in a few years, a chance overlap in location with the Glasgow School of Art Fashion graduate show during one of my commissioned portrait shoots, provided an opportunity to make some quick portraits of the models. Katy’s incredible energy grabbed my attention, in particular this moment of intensity in her look alongside the absurdity of the cat face (outf

Alexander Hoyles is a fine art photographer, film & image maker who relocated to Glasgow from Auckland (New Zealand) in 2018.
Graduating from The University of Auckland - Elam School of Fine Arts (BFA Hons) in 2010, Alexander has continued to make and exhibit sculptural and photographic work, whilst also working creatively within the film and advertising industries.

Much of Alexander’s work centers around creating carefully curated or crafted representations and re-presentations of existing moments and locations, freezing in time the subtle, the sublime and the beautiful aspects of the built and natural environment. He is interested in the balance and tension between the uncanniness and discomfort that inherently comes from taking a moment out of time, and the ability of that same process to capture the natural essence of things.

Alongside several bodies of personal work in current development, Alexander continues to create ongoing commercial and portraiture work, completing a number of commissions for individual artists, authors and performers, as well as working with a wide range of clients across the arts and culture sectors including Greater Govanhill Magazine, New Practice Architects, Scottish Contemporary Art Network, Impact Arts, WASPS, Thackray Museum of Medicine, Glasgow Sculpture Studios and many others.
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