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Alex

Howey

Disciplines: Painting

Location: Glasgow

Materials: Oil

Alex Howey (b. 2002, Northumberland) is an emerging contemporary artist born and raised in the North-East, currently based in Glasgow, working predominantly in oil painting. Alex Howey’s practice cultivates queer, shape-shifting worlds where fluid bodies defy norms, exposing the contradictions of gender, desire, and identity in a landscape of surreal resistance and joy.

Previous Experience

Alex has exhibited in a range of group and solo exhibitions across Glasgow, Edinburgh and London. They have exhibited recently at the Royal Over-Seas League in London, Summerhall in Edinburgh and at House Arts Collective in Glasgow. They are a recent graduate from BA Painting at Edinburgh College of Art, and are currently undertaking a Masters’ in Curatorial Practice at Glasgow School of Art in which they received a scholarship to study. In 2025, they were shortlisted for the Astaire Art Prize, the Arts to Hearts Artist of the Year award and as an RBA Rising Star.

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