Alexandra Pitt (b. 1973, Hobart) is a multidisciplinary artist working across drawing, painting, printmaking, mixed media, and sculpture. Her practice explores the spaces between representation and abstraction, where familiar motifs; birds, shells, human figures, and landscapes; dissolve into gestural marks and emerge as emotional terrains.
The figure in the landscape recurs throughout her work, functioning as self-portraiture and a symbol of experience within place. Line is her primary language; fluid, expressive, and intuitive, guiding each work through a process that is both spontaneous and deliberate, transforming the intangible into something tangible.
Responding to the Tasmanian landscape, domestic interiors, mythology, and beauty, Pitt documents vivid memories and stories through sensitive mark-making and material exploration. Her atmospheric works blur the distinction between internal and external landscapes, creating contemplative spaces where observation and memory intertwine
Bio
Alexandra Pitt (b. 1973, Hobart) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores the intersection of figure and landscape through drawing, painting, printmaking, mixed media, and sculpture. Responding to the Tasmanian environment, domestic interiors, mythology, and beauty, her work transforms natural forms and everyday settings into expressive, contemplative compositions that invite viewers into spaces where memory and observation converge.
Since 1994, Pitt has exhibited extensively, predominantly with Handmark Gallery in Hobart. Her work is held in private collections in Australia and overseas and has been highly commended in The Bridge Prize (2025), the Bay of Fires Art Prize, and the Eskleigh Art Award (1999).
Pitt holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Tasmania (1998) and a Graduate Diploma of Education from Charles Sturt University (2002). She is also a passionate Arts educator and has taught Visual Art to senior students for the past 25 years. She is currentlyArts Coordinator and Senior Art Teacher at Fahan School, Hobart.
CV
EDUCATION
- Graduate Diploma of Education (Secondary Art), Charles Sturt University, NSW — 2002
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting and Printmaking), University of Tasmania — 1998
- Education Foundation Scholarship, 12 month Student Exchange, Aachen, Germany – 1991
FURTHER EDUCATION
- Artist Book workshop ‘Why the Artists’ Book?’ with Dianne Fogwell, Baldessin Press, Victoria – 2025
- Mokulito Workshop with Barbie Kjar, Baldessin Press, Victoria – 2024
- Etching Masterclass with Raymond Arnold, Australian Print Workshop – 2004
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2022 On the Island, Handmark Gallery, Hobart
- 2009 Brady’s Oriels, s.p.a.c.e Gallery, Scotch Oakburn College, Launceston
- 2001 Figure and Landscape, Poimena Gallery, Launceston
- 1998 Drawing from the Landscape, Foyer Café Gallery, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
- 1994 Drawn on the Figure, Fandango Gallery, Cygnet
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2024 Celebrating our Landscape – Handmark Gallery
- 2023 Works on Paper – Handmark Gallery
- 2023 Glover landscape Pop Up – Clarendon Arms – Handmark Gallery
- 2022 Celebrating 25 Tasmanian Printmakers – 15 Year Anniversary Exhibition – Handmark Gallery
- 2020 Landscape Exhibition – Handmark Gallery
- 2020 Still Life Exhibition – Handmark Gallery
- 2018 Glover Landscapes, Handmark Gallery, Evandale
- 2017 The Body (with Katina Kavalas and Frances Watkins), Handmark Gallery, Hobart
- 2017 Affordable Art Exhibition, Handmark Gallery, Hobart
- 2017 Works on Paper, Handmark Gallery, Hobart
- 2016 Works on Paper, Handmark Gallery, Hobart
Selected Works, Long Gallery, Salamanca Place - 2015 Works on Paper, Handmark Gallery, Hobart
Summer Show, Handmark Gallery, Hobart - 2014 Still Life, Handmark Gallery, Hobart
- 2013 Works on Paper, Handmark Gallery, Hobart (Hobart and Evandale)
- 2012 Works on Paper, Handmark Gallery, Hobart
- 2011 Register – Tasmanian Printmakers, s.p.a.c.e Gallery, Scotch Oakburn College, Launceston
- 2010 Print Show, Handmark Gallery, Hobart
- 2008 Connections, s.p.a.c.e Gallery, Scotch Oakburn College, Launceston
- 2007 Moods of the Cataract Gorge, Eskleigh, Perth
- 2006 Impress, s.p.a.c.e Gallery, Scotch Oakburn College, Launceston
Woolmers Art Exhibition, Woolmers Cottage, Longford
Pin Up Show, Australian Print Workshop, Gertrude St, Melbourne - 2005 Woolmers Art Exhibition, Woolmers Cottage, Longford
Island Previews, s.p.a.c.e Gallery, Scotch Oakburn College, Launceston
Get into Gear, Art Teachers Exhibition, Inveresk Railyards, Launceston
In Houses, s.p.a.c.e Gallery, Scotch Oakburn College, Launceston - 2004 Woolmers Art Exhibition, Woolmers Cottage, Longford
- 2003 Woolmers Art Exhibition, Woolmers Cottage, Longford
Surroundings, s.p.a.c.e Gallery, Scotch Oakburn College, Launceston
Hats off to Piping Lane, Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston - 2002 Dunn Stone Challenge, Seaport, Launceston
- 1999 Eskleigh Art Award, Perth, Tasmania
Glamorgan Spring Bay Council Art Prize, Swansea - 1998 Excursive Sight, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart; Carnegie Gallery, Hobart
- 1997 Lake St Clair Visitors Centre, Printmakers Guild Members Show
Excursive Sight, Long Gallery, Hobart - 1996 Printworks Members’ Show, Sidespace Gallery, Salamanca Place, Hobart
- 1995 In House, Long Gallery, Salamanca Place, Hobart
Earth, Air, Fire and Water, Sidespace Gallery, Salamanca Place, Hobart - 1994 Island, 2nd Year Printmakers’ Show, University Gallery, Sandy Bay
Island, Salamanca Arts Centre Members Show, Hobart - 1992 Women’s Art Exhibition, Long Gallery, Hobart
AWARDS
- 2025 The Bridge Prize – Highly Commended
- 1999 Glamorgan Spring Bay Council Art Prize — Highly Commended
- 1999 Eskleigh Art Award — Highly Commended
- 1988 Trust Bank Art Award
PUBLICATIONS
- 2017 Island Magazine
- 1999 40 Degrees South
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Art Teacher, Launceston Church Grammar School — 2001–2002
Art Teacher, Scotch Oakburn College – Launceston 2003 – 2009
Arts Coordinator and Senior Art Teacher, Fahan School, Hobart — 2010–Present