The Alexander Collection

The Alexander Collection 2024 will be the eighth season where local artists have been invited to show their work at The Alexander Centre. The generous loan of their paintings gives our regular community, as well as those who come from further afield, the opportunity to enjoy an exhibition of varied and inspiring artwork when using the Alex for events, meetings, special occasions or simply visiting.

In 2022 we took the decision to show the Collection for two years as we were still in a period of uncertainty. However, this year we have returned to our original pattern of an annual exhibition.

We have been very grateful this year for the help of David Lilford, from the Lilford Gallery in Canterbury, who gave us the opportunity to look at the work of several artists and explore with three of them whether they might be prepared to become part of the Alexander Collection for this year.

We are also delighted to be showing some of the art created by the Years 9 and 10 Enterprise groups and Year 11 art students from the Abbey School in Faversham (Charters Room).

Bringing together this year’s Alexander Collection has been made possible by the enthusiasm of our four talented national and international artists, Anna Allworthy (Lounge) Amelia Coward (Mayor’s Parlour), Adam De Ville (Jubilee Room) and Bay Lees (Sidney Room), and the staff at the Abbey School: Louise Slack and Eleanor Jones, as well as Neil Brown who designed this brochure and the team at the Alex, especially Ben Cave who was so helpful in hanging the works.

The information panels in each room give more details about the individual paintings and details of who to contact if you are interested in any particular work or knowing more about the artists.

A huge thank you to Anna, Amelia, Adam and Bay for agreeing to these loans. We are very appreciative and hope you will enjoy their work as much as we enjoyed curating this exhibition.

The previous Alexander Collection was launched in January 2020, and was sadly closed shortly after due to the Coronavirus pandemic. In co-operation with our alumni artists from the previous years, and guest artist Rose Wylie, The Virtual Alexander Collection was launched. These unique works of art were produced by our alumni during the lockdown period and generously made available online for The Alexander Collection.

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