Burke Stage 5 Research Development: Alexia Sinclair

Amongst my all time favourite digital artists, Alexia Sinclair is a digital photographic artist based in Sydney, NSW. Highly regarded for her photomanipulation work, Sinclair takes a very holistic approach to her work, prefering to do as much of the work as she can. This involves travelling to exotic locations to photograph background plates, designing costumes, finding props and doing all the post production on her images. Sinclair's work is often dark, woven with rich history, and always wonderfully executed. Sinclair combines an absolute myriad of photographic elements into a complex montage of illustrative wonderment and fantasy, blending historical fact with modern concepts of beauty and power.

Alexia Sinclair

First of her most famous and celebrated works is "The Regal Twelve". This series explores and portrays powerful women throughout the centuries, both well known and obscure. This series portrays woman such as Marie Antoinette, Isabella of Spain and Cleopatra. Alexia uses strong symbols of power in these images, be it a weapon such as a sword, or an intimidating animal such as a lion, as a way of expressing the dominance of these figures.

Cleopatra - The Seductress

Catherine the Great - The Enlightened Empress

Elizabeth Báthory – The Countess of Blood

Her most recent series,"The Royal Dozen" (sister series to "The Regal Twelve") explores powerful and influential men throughout history. These lavishly decorated images explore figures such as Vlad Draculea, Alexander the Great and Peter Romanov. Much alike her first series, intricate motifs are woven throughout each meticulousy crafted image, delving deep into the history of each character. Exploring the facets that made each of these men famous, Sinclair tells a detailed and well formulated story with every image in the series.