BIO

Alex Frayne has been involved in film and images from his earliest school days. Beginning with an 8mm camera in hand he has continued his love affair with visual media ever since. His stills photography work has earned acclaim and his work is held in galleries including the National Portrait Gallery (two images in the Permanent Collection).

He shoots mainly analogue film formats, including 6x6cm, 6x9cm and 35mm formats.

In 2023 his performance MUSIC FOR OTHER WORLDS had its world premiere at the prestigious Adelaide Festival of Arts, featuring the esteemed pianist Paul Grabowsky responding in real time to a series of his photographs projected.

He has three art books published by Wakefield Press and a fourth will be published in 2024 titled Distance and Desire . Simon Caterson, for The Australian, writes: "the last book confirms that Frayne deserves to be thought of alongside Ansel Adams and the other great landscape photographers.' (Landscapes of South Australia, Wakefield Press, 2020).

BOOKS (WAKEFIELD PRESS, ADELAIDE)

-Adelaide Noir, 86pg, 2015 -

-Theatre of Life, Portraits - 80pg, 2017

-Landscapes of South Australia, 216 pg, 2020

(3 print runs)

-Distance and Desire, 216 pg - May 2024

NATIONAL ACQUISITIONS

National Portrait Gallery of Australia:

2021, Portrait of Andrew Steiner National Portrait Gallery of Australia

2022, Portrait of Erin Phillips, footballer

CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

2023 - ADELAIDE CITY COUNCIL CONTEMPORARY ART COLLECTION (VIA GUILDHOUSE)

2023 - VIBE HOTEL EAST FLINDERS STREET ADELAIDE, 110 FRAMES

2021 - THE PLAYFORD HOTEL ADELAIDE, 220 FRAMES

2023 - MINTERS ELLISON LAWYERS, GRENFELL STREET ADELAIDE, 3 FRAMES 2015 - ANZ ADELAIDE, 4 FRAMES, BOARDROOM