Alexandra Kirwood is a Melbourne-based artist and image-maker working across expanded photography and moving image. Her work explores how technology is reshaping the image; how we see, represent, and construct identity in the digital age. Alongside her independent projects, she collaborates on film and fashion productions under the director duo HIBALL.
EDUCATION
Master of Design, RMIT University, 2023
Research dissertation: Time-Images and Digital Fashion Sculptures — investigating the in-between image in fashion
Bachelor of Fashion (Honours) (First class), RMIT University, 2016
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Composition for Mnemosyne, Haydens Gallery, Melbourne, AUS
2023 Significant Surfaces, Melbourne Fashion Festival Arts Program, Melbourne, AUS
2020 Salient Moments in the Habitual Pattern, MARS Gallery, Melbourne, AUS
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 NOTFAIR (upcoming), Melbourne, AUS
2025 Elsewheres… Thinking Through Weibel, Applied Interdisciplinary Lab, Vienna, AT
2024 Data Minds, The Lock-Up, Newcastle, AUS
2024 WIP Festival, CYENS Centre of Excellence, Nicosia, CYP
2024 ‘24 Moving Image Program, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, AUS
2024 Bits and Atoms, Transmedia Research Institute, Pesaro, ITA
2023 Das Kapital, The Bank, NOTFAIR Cecil Place Art Precinct, Melbourne, AUS
2023 Double Interface, Digital Art Exhibition, Seoul, KR
2016 Screening Fashion, MARS Gallery, Melbourne, AUS
2016 Movements, First Site Gallery, Melbourne, AUS
CURATION
Data Minds (Assistant Curator), The Lock-Up, Newcastle, AUS, 2024
R3vision, MARS Gallery, Melbourne, AUS, 2021
HIBALL Presents: New Narratives, State Library of Victoria Theatre, Melbourne, AUS, 2019
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
Mentorship, Umanesimo Artificiale, ITA, 2025
Digital Residency, Transmedia Research Institute, ITA, 2024
Artist in Residence, RMIT, AUS, 2024
Artist in Residence, The Lock-Up, Newcastle, AUS, 2024
Artist in Residence, Fremantle Arts Centre, AUS, 2024
Researcher in Residence, ACMI X, AUS, 2022
GRANTS & AWARDS
Emerging Artist Grant, Ian Potter Cultural Trust, 2024
Creative Project Fund, Creative Victoria, 2024
Commission, The Lock-Up, Newcastle, 2023
Commission, Digital Wall, Mirvac and RMIT, 2022
Coffs Harbour Cultural Development Grant (HIBALL), 2018
Graduate of the Year (Fashion), Design Institute Australia (VIC), 2016
PUBLICATIONS & PRESS
Hilary Thurlow, “Data Minds” (review), Memo Review, AUS, 2024
Eugene Hawkins & Audrey Jo Pfister, “Will You Answer the Call” (catalogue essay),
Composition for Mnemosyne, exhibition publication, AUS, 2024
DATA MINDS website featuring “Composition for Mnemosyne”, AUS 2024
RMIT Imaging Futures Lab, “Time Images and Digital Fashion Sculpture” (Artist page), AUS 2023
SHOWstudio / Nick Knight, “Fashion Film Showcase: Spring 2022” (review), UK, 2021
Marcel Schlutt, “A Nice Place to Stop by HIBALL” (editorial), Kaltblut Magazine, GER, 2019
Briony Wright, “hiball are the new queens of experimental fashion film” (online interview), i-D Magazine, AUS, 2018