Alex Gough is a Finnish/British painter. He completed his Foundation Studies at Chelsea College of Art in 2002 and holds a BA in Painting from Camberwell College of Art and an MA in Fine Art from City and Guilds of London. Gough was a resident artist at the Centre for Recent Drawing from 2009 to 2011 and is currently a resident artist and Gallery Manager at Block 336 Gallery in Brixton. Gough has exhibited in the UK, Finland and the USA and has had several solo exhibitions including 'Wilderness in Paint' at the European Parliament's Twelve Star Gallery in Westminster, supported by the Finnish Embassy.
Immersing the viewer within a destabilising perceptual field, Alex Gough's work captures both the nearness of the screensaver and the distant memory of the natural world. Gough continues to investigate what the experience of 'wilderness' might mean today. Materials and visuals and the relation between painting, perception and image are the cornerstone of Gough's practice. Working with a limited palette, Gough makes his own paint and through this gains a kind of intimate knowledge of the viscosity and intensity of the painting experience. Exploring the limits of this process is for Gough analogous to a 'wilderness state' where no known foothold in meaning can be found.