Alex Glen
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Alex Glen

Visual ArtistLondon, United Kingdom
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Alex Glen
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Alex Glen

Visual ArtistLondon, United Kingdom
About me
I am a multi-disciplinary artist. I create interactive, immersive sculpture and installations. I have been a fire fighter in London for 10 years. I am pursuing a PhD exploring the potential of new technologies within immersive environments. Always open to exciting new possibilities!
Projects
  • Post Graduate Conference
    Post Graduate ConferenceSchool of Media and the Arts, Post graduate conference. Abstract presentation.
  • Fresh Air Sculpture
    Fresh Air Sculpture
  • The Art of Selling Songs
    The Art of Selling SongsExhibition featuring influential artists through the decades and the accompanying original album artwork.
  • Immersive sculpture
    Immersive sculptureProjected interactive visuals, utilising mapping, live feeds, animated graphics. This sculpture has been created as a memorial to my years working as a fire fighter in London. It describes the structure both inside and outside of a high rise compartment fire, placing the viewer inside the structure.
  • Hacking sculptures
    Hacking sculpturesInvestigating the potential for immersive sculpture utilising existing computer and games technology. Creating elemental sculpture concerned with; heat, cold, pressure, sound and light.
  • Gardens Gallery Exhibition
    Gardens Gallery ExhibitionNau arts collective exhibition, showing new interactive immersive sculpture.
Projects credited in
  • Free Range Shows 2015
    Free Range Shows 2015Free Range is an Old Truman Brewery special project set up by Tamsin O'Hanlon to provide new creative graduates with the opportunity to showcase their work on an international level. Since its inception in 2001, Free Range has become the number one platform and launch pad for the next crop of creatives to showcase their work to both public and industry. Attracting visitor numbers to rival the largest art events, the annual Free Range exhibitions present the work of thousands of art, design stude
Work history
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    Art technicianThe Wilson Museum & Art Gallery
    Cheltenham, United KingdomFreelance
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    Creative DirectorJacks
    Cheltenham, United KingdomPart Time
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Skills
  • Art
  • Sculpture
  • Photography
  • Adobe Premiere Pro
  • Drawing
  • Painting
  • Immersive Experience
  • Installation Art
  • Virtual Reality
  • New Technologies
  • Projection Mapping
  • Projection art
  • Projection
  • Film Projects
  • Art Documentation
  • Audio Visual
  • Exhibition Audio-visuals
  • Lecturing
  • Academic Research
  • Artist Research
Education
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    PhDUniversity of Gloucestershire
    Cheltenham, United Kingdom
    Practice based PhD in the hacking of technology within art, specifically looking into immersive environments and installations art.
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    University of The Arts London (UAL) logo
    MA Fine ArtUniversity of The Arts London (UAL)
     - London, United Kingdom
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Awards
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    AHRC research awardArts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC)