Alex Drozd is a photographic artist based in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, with a practice spanning over four decades. Recent work has turned toward abstraction, using transparent and semi-transparent surfaces to explore mediated, partially obscured ways of seeing. Carwash — an abstract...
Read MoreAlex Drozd is a photographic artist based in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, with a practice spanning over four decades. Recent work has turned toward abstraction, using transparent and semi-transparent surfaces to explore mediated, partially obscured ways of seeing. Carwash — an abstract study of water moving against glass and around the carwash booth itself — has been widely recognised internationally, earning a Bronze at the Tokyo International Foto Awards, an Honourable Mention at the Moscow International Foto Awards, and Finalist status at the London International Creative Competition (all 2021–2022). Drozd's work invites viewers to approach these images with an open mind, free of preconception; for the artist, themes of childhood memory and imagined mythology have surfaced strongly through the project.
This recent work extends a long-standing interest in landscape and place, particularly the post-industrial and overlooked. Smethwick Galton Bridge, photographing a railway station platform through distorting perspex panels, was exhibited at MAC, Birmingham (2015) and Sandwell Arts Cafe (2017). Earlier landscape work includes a series photographed in Kidderminster town centre (Kidderminster Library, 2012) and Relics, a body of industrial landscape images taken across the West Midlands from an imagined archaeological perspective, shown at Lowesby Gallery, Leicester (1990) and developed alongside a group show, The Lie of the Land, at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham.
