Adelaide Festival Centre’s Visual Arts Program Presents Homage

Adelaide Festival Centre's Visual Arts program presents Homage: The Royal Dozen (2007-2010) & The Regal Twelve (2005 – 2007)- an Australian Centre for Photography Touring Exhibition.

Princesses, warlords, dandies and divas take to the stage to form two highly complex fine art series; The Royal Dozen and The Regal Twelve.

Award winning Australian photographic and digital artist, Alexia Sinclair's highly anticipated series Royal Dozen opened its worldwide premier at the Australian Centre for Photography and since then has received rave reviews. Royal Dozen showcases a series of male monarchs, mirroring the themes of Alexia's very popular and well known portraits titled The Regal Twelve, which focuses on European Monarchs across history and mythology.

Royal Dozen is a dark and seductive, baroque and symbolic rep­resentation of historic royalty throughout the centuries. Alexia combines photography, illustration, European backdrops, fashion models, historical treasures and symbolic references, and digital montage to create works based on historical truths.

The complex series, The Regal Twelve, portrays historical European Monarchs combining contemporary notions of beauty and fashion with traditional fine art techniques to explore the lives and contrasts of twelve fascinating women. This acclaimed series won three national awards in 2007 for their innovation.

Alexia Sinclair is an award winning Australian Fine Art photographer and digital artist. Her distinct style is easily recognisable and highly original. Using a visual narrative to seduce her audience with each photographic feast, Sinclair's art is dark and seductive, baroque and symbolic. Her multilayered photographs subtly present contemporary notions of fashion and beauty through innovative digital media, whilst restoring antique notions of classicism, elegance and luxury.

Sinclair is an artist who skilfully walks the tightrope that divides the worlds of Fine Art and Commercial Art. Whilst her evocative Fine Art imagery adorns the walls of museums and is held in important art collections, she often translates these skills and signature style into highly polished campaigns in the commercial arena for clients such as Harpers Bazaar and Canon Australia. Sinclair also recently completed a photo shoot with Sass and Bide founders Heidi Middleton and Sarah-Jane Clarke.

Motivated by her love and devotion for all things intricate and unusual, Sinclair uniquely approaches her creative production by filling all of the roles, from designing sets and props, to makeup and costumes. Sinclair travels the world photographing locations and models and works in post production constructing imagined worlds through the combination of her photographs and hand illustrations.

Completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons I) and Master of Fine Arts, Sinclair is the recipient of a travelling arts scholarship, and two postgraduate scholarships. She has worked in New York as a digital artist and exhibited in numerous exhibitions including at the Australian Centre for Photography and the Art Gallery of NSW.

'My influences range from Botticelli and de' Medici circle to con­temporary couture fashion designers such as John Galliano and Alexander McQueen. All of the portraits are inspired by the styles and fashions of each monarch and are reinterpreted into a contem­porary visual narrative.' says Alexia.

What: Homage: The Royal Dozen (2007-2010) & The Regal Twelve (2005-2007)

Venue: Artspace Gallery
(Access via Festival Drive, or Dunstan Playhouse Foyer)
Disability access via Festival Bridge from North Terrace, or Adelaide Festival Centre Amphitheatre ramp
Hours: Wed, Fri, Sat, Sun 12 – 4pm, Thurs 12 – 8pm.
When: 17 December 2011 – 19 February 2012
SPECIAL OPENING HOURS: 6 -7, 11 - 13, 18 - 21 January 5 – 9:30pm
Cost: FREE entry

For further information visit: www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au

IMAGE:©Alexia Sinclair Elizabeth I – the Virgin Queen (1533 – 1603) 2007

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