Alexia Sinclair

Alexia Sinclair is an Australian photographic artist known for her meticulously constructed images that reimagine historical worlds through a contemporary lens. She uses the camera to narrate a story rather than to bear witness, creating immersive tableaux in which architecture, landscape, and the human figure converge.

Every element within her work is photographed by the artist. Drawing on a background in traditional fine art, Sinclair designs and constructs costumes, sets, and props, and photographs locations, animals, and performers to build richly detailed environments. These elements are realised either fully in camera or through the careful assembly of layered photographic compositions. The work does not replicate history; it interprets it.

Her major body of work, The Age of Wonder, examines eighteenth-century Europe’s fascination with exotic flora and fauna, and the ornamental environments shaped by that encounter. Developed over a decade, the series reflects her ongoing interest in history, design, and the relationship between nature and artifice.

Sinclair’s work has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, London, the Australian Centre for Photography, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and in Paris, Berlin, Pingyao, Seoul, Sweden, and Dubai.