The Alexander Collection is an opportunity for professional artists to show their work, by offering them a year-long showcase at no cost to themselves and for The Alexander Centre to benefit from works of art on our walls that we could otherwise not afford in order to enhance our visitor experience.
The Collection 2026
The Alexander Collection 2026 will be the ninth exhibition since the launch of the Collection in 2015 when local artists were invited to show their work at The Alexander Centre (The Alex).
This year’s Collection features three national and international artists, Zel Hunt (Mayor’s Parlour), Jonathan Stewardson (Jubilee Room) and Lisa Hawkins (Sidney Room), as well as works from students at Simon Langton Boys School.
The generosity of the artists who loan their paintings so that our regular community, as well as those who come from further afield, can enjoy an exhibition of varied and inspiring artwork when using the Alex for events, meetings, special occasions or simply visiting, is invaluable.
Once again, we have been extremely grateful to David Lilford, from the Lilford Gallery in Canterbury, who suggested two of the artists to be shown this year as part of The Collection. He, together with 2024 Collection artist, Amelia Coward, and designer, Neil Brown, joined us as a helpful committee, and gave invaluable advice on artists we might approach, ideas for how we might improve awareness of The Collection and once we had approached the artists, which of their works we might show in the exhibition.
We are very grateful to Neil Brown who designed the brochure and the information panels in each room. These panels give more details about the individual paintings, as well as who to contact if you are interested in a particular work or knowing more about the artists. A big thank you as always to the Alex team, and particularly Ben Cave who expertly hangs the works.
We are very grateful to all our artists and hope you will enjoy their work as much as we enjoyed curating this exhibition.
Please find the archive of our Collection here:-
www.thealexandercollection.org.uk