Currently situated in London, Studying Painting at the Royal College of Art
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
2026
PAVILION HONG KONG - Norito Gallery, HK
ARTSY VIP PACKAGE - Moosey Art, Norwich, UK
Shaping the Chrysanthemum - Norito Gallery and SAC Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
2025
Untitled Miami - Norito Gallery, Miami, USA
Growth of the Soil - Kristen Jhellejerde Gallery, London, UK
Group Show - Powerlong Museum, Winner's Gallery, Shanghai, China
Dou Show - Romance Without Us - Norito Gallery, London, UK
2024
Group Shpw - Bonian Art Space with Willow Art Space, Beijing, China
Group Show - Art Nutri Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Art Busan - The Untitled Void Gallery, Busan, South Korea
Group Show - Liliya Art Gallery, London, UK
2023
Duo Show - Data Composition - The Untitled Void Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
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 - SUNBURN - Studio West 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