Ellipsis Prints
Portrait of the artist Alexi Marshall

Artist · Collection Two · 2021

Prints by Alexi Marshall

Alexi Marshall is a UK-based artist whose practice moves between painting, printmaking and textile processes. Her work engages with mythology, ritual and archetypal imagery to examine constructions of femininity, power and transformation. Drawing on symbolic languages—including tarot and devotional iconography—Marshall creates psychologically charged images that feel both intimate and theatrical.

A graduate of the Slade School of Fine Art (2018), Alexi Marshall first came to wider attention through Bloomberg New Contemporaries that same year, marking her as a significant emerging voice within her generation. Since then, she has developed a distinctive practice that combines formal precision with emotional intensity.

Alexi Marshall’s recent solo exhibitions include presentations in London and Rome, alongside an institutional solo exhibition at De La Warr Pavilion. Marshall has also been recognised through national awards and residencies, reflecting the increasing visibility and momentum of her work within the contemporary art landscape.

Across mediums, Alexi Marshall’s artistic practice consistently returns to themes of endurance, embodiment and the cyclical interplay between destruction and renewal.

Recently, Alexi Marshall created Light the Spark, a mural commissioned by Wysing Arts Centre for the centre’s Stable Block. Made with Wysing’s Creative Youth Council, it moves from darkness towards light through imagery developed in workshops exploring nature and mythology. Marshall reflects on the collaboration in an interview published by Wysing, offering a closer view of the project’s shared creative process.

“Alexi brings together ritual, symbolism and image-making. Her paintings have the quality of objects invested with meaning, drawing on the relationship between belief, memory and the everyday.”

Kate Neave, Curator