Currently situated in Lancaster, UK
In Appleby’s acrylic paintings, flora take on a near-sentient presence, inhabiting interiors and symbolic terrains where light, personal objects, and memory coalesce. His early engagement with retro video game aesthetics has gradually given way to a more contemplative visual language, one in which imagined landscapes emerge from the textures of the everyday. Familiar domestic spaces, a bedroom landing, a spare room, a distant hillside in the northwest of England unfold into sites of quiet revelation. In one image, a reclining figure gently recalls the contours of a northern hill; in another, the plant becomes a gesture toward knowledge and interdependence. Orchids, bonsais, and daffodils serve as witnesses to solitude, duration, and inner transformation. Here, the divine is not distant but embedded, in the glint of a ring, the curve of a stem, where the domestic and the transcendental coexist. His work affirms that the nonhuman world is not a backdrop, but a reflective presence with its own quiet agency.
Email: alexander.g.appleby@gmail.com
Instagram: @alexander.appleby
2025
Solo Show - Winners Gallery - Beijing
Growth of the Soil - Kristen Jhellejerde Gallery - London
Group Show - Powerlong Museum - Shanghai
Romance Without Us - Norito Gallery - London
2024
Group Shpw - Bonian Art Space with Willow Art Space - Beijing
Group Show - Art Nutri Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Art Busan - The Untitled Void Gallery, South Korea
Group Show - Liliya Art Gallery, London UK
2023
Duo Show - Data Composition - The Untitled Void Gallery
Group Show - Natasha Arselan Projects - Maison Pan Gallery, London UK
Duo Show with Louis Appleby - Castlegate House Gallery, Cockermouth UK
In Bloom - Victoria Law Projects, London UK
Duo Show with Louis Appleby - Jewellers - Performance by Maxwell Sterling, Morecambe UK
Group Show - Studio West Gallery - SUNBURN, London UK
Charity Auction - Art on a Postcard - Hoxton Gallery, London UK
2021
Group Show Castlegate House Gallery, Cockermouth UK
Digital UAL Art Toronto, Canada
Wimbledon College of Art, Final Degree Show, London UK
Through the Mirage, group show, Fitzrovia, London UK
Friends with Benefits, group show, Peckham, London UK
2020
Capsticks Group Show, London UK
Gallery 54 show, Ulverston UK
2019
Bellwood and Wright Summer Show, Lancaster UK
Blackburn Museum displayed 3 paintings, UK
Discerning Eye, London UK
2017
Bellwood and Wright Group Show, Lancaster UK
UAL Origins show, London UK