Alex Valy

Born 1975, London, England
Lives and works in London, England

'Jeannot-lapin naquit à l'âge de sept ans'

Alex Valy's work is strangely beautiful. Eyeless and staring into nothingness, her 4 feet-high rabbit-children evoke childhood fears frozen in time; whilst her pure white paper sculpture of a little girl questions the viewers' perception by staging a confrontation of sight and sound.

"Ideas for work come to me in dreams or daydreams, like some kind of 'vision'. As I go through the process of making a vision reality, I discover its significance for myself and hopefully others. In a way, it is almost as if I decipher it from an outsider's point of view. Almost, but not quite because the 'vision' is always accompanied with a feeling, an emotion.

It is this feeling that, by making the work and bringing it into the world, I try to communicate."