Alexandra Plum is a Fine Artist working with graphite, and charcoal on primed canvas. Currently, her practice explores quiet, everyday moments of her male friends depicted nude and at ease within domestic spaces.

Her work expands from artifacts of experiential joy, lived candid moments, frozen in time by photography, revisited and reimagined through myriad mediums. In so doing, the paintings serve to share those personal feelings of happiness and tenderness with the viewer.

Looking into a space from an outside perspective—through a doorway or a window—her compositions position the viewer as a subtle observer. Her subjects rarely meet the viewer’s gaze, creating a sense of intrusion on a private, unguarded moment. This perspective underpins Plum’s challenge of the historical dominance of the female nude, as she presents the male body outside of traditional, often idealised, representations. Inspired by The Rokeby Venus, she reverses the roles of gender and gaze.

Plum highlights vulnerability as a shared human quality, emphasising the importance of seeing each other as equals. By focusing on personal relationships and lived experience, she draws attention to moments of intimacy and care that are often overlooked, reframing the everyday as something worthy of closer attention.

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