Alex Morante (b.1994) is a multidisciplinary artist from New Jersey, based in London, and a graduate of Central Saint Martins BA Hons. Ceramic Design.
Her figurative practice explores how physical and psychological states can be expressed materially, particularly in response to bodily and emotional volatility.
Originally trained in drawing and painting, she moved into ceramics to give these ideas physical form. Her recent work emphasizes surface as more than a finish, by using reactive glazes and oxides to create textures that evoke corrosion, patina, mould, and lichen—Turning these material processes into metaphors for transformation, deterioration, and endurance.
Rooted in a morbid curiosity, she draws on the dark imagery from mythology, folklore, religious iconography, and references from sci-fi to memento mori traditions, her work explores dualities such as growth and decay, empathy and fear, and the familiar and the unknown.
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Education
2025 Central Saint Martins — BA Hons Ceramic Design (First Class Honours) & Diploma in Professional Studies
2021 Mercer County Community College — Associate in Fine Arts
Exhibitions
2025 The Recent Graduates Exhibition, Affordable Art Fair, London
2023 Straight Out the Ground, UAL: Central Saint Martins, London
2022 Design Transforms Borders, NYCxDesign Week, Brooklyn, NY
2021 Mercer County Artists Exhibition, MCCC: West Windsor Campus Gallery, West Windsor, NJ
2018 Findlay & Morante: Selected Works, Studio 16 Pop-Up, Trenton, NJ
2017 Deviant Philly Presents: Oracle, Bottle Bar East, Philadelphia, PA
2017 Nobody Likes You When You're 23, Pop-Up Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Residencies
2026 (forthcoming) Victoria House Residency, Tracey Emin Foundation, Margate
2026 (forthcoming) Mawddach Graduate Residency Award, Arthog, Wales
Awards
2023 Jenny Walton Masters Award
2020 Mel Leipzig Fine Arts Scholarship
Collections
2025 UAL Archives and Special Collections Centre, London
2021 MCCC West Windsor Campus Gallery, West Windsor, NJ