Alexa Kalo is a Canberra-based painter whose bold, bird’s-eye tablescapes celebrate the food, colour and company of everyday gatherings. Drawing on her Greek and Serbian heritage, her oil paintings turn familiar things – tomatoes, olives, sardines and long meals with family – into vibrant, pattern-rich compositions. A recipient of the 2025 Tyger New Ground Award, Alexa has held a solo show at Tyger and shown at Affordable Art Fairs in Brisbane and Melbourne.
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Alexa Kalo is a painter whose work centres on still life and mealtime scenes, using colour and pattern to explore the atmosphere and quiet energy of everyday spaces.
Her practice reinterprets the still life tradition through an intuitive, expressive approach. Pattern plays an important role in her work, acting as both structure and rhythm, guiding the eye and connecting objects across the composition. Influenced by artists such as Lucy Culliton, Alexa is interested in how repetition, arrangement and colour can shift the way familiar objects are felt and experienced.
Rather than focusing on precise representation, her paintings are driven by sensation – how tone, balance and contrast can create a particular mood. Through this process, she transforms simple domestic moments into works that feel both harmonious and alive, holding a gentle tension between stillness and movement.
Alexa was a recipient of the 2025 Tyger New Ground Award at the ANU School of Art graduate show. New work from this exciting emerging artist was shown by Tyger Gallery at Affordable Art Fairs in Brisbane and Melbourne.
