Biography
Aleks Crossan is a contemporary visual artist based in nipaluna/Hobart. Her multidisciplinary practice spans painting, public art, choreography, music and performance, with her visual artwork also extending into textile design. Working with acrylic and mixed media, she creates layered abstract compositions through bold colour, expressive line and intuitive mark-making.
Her work explores movement, authenticity and connection, inviting curiosity and personal interpretation.
Her background in choreography, dance and music informs her sensitivity to rhythm, spatial movement and the way artwork unfolds across architectural surfaces. Her public-art practice combines this expressive visual language with careful consideration of site, audience and the built environment.
Recent commissions include a large-scale mural for Launceston’s 2026 Thoroughfare Street Art Festival, a mural for Rosny Skate Park for City of Clarence, and artwork and visual identity for the 2025 Clarence Jazz Festival. In 2026, she also collaborated with Melbourne sock label Soxy Beast, creating commissioned artwork for wearable textile design.
Aleks has presented solo exhibitions at Salamanca Arts Centre and Devonport Regional Gallery. She participated in Contemporary Art Tasmania’s Constellations mentorship program and Arts Tasmania’s Building Blocks Public Art Development Program.
Curriculum Vitae
Aleks Crossan
Born in 1976 in Vienna, Austria
Lives and works in nipaluna/Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Selected solo exhibitions
2026 | Fee Fi Fo Fum – Social Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, Australia
2025 | Something To Do With When We Were Young – Devonport Regional Gallery, Devonport, Australia
2025 | A Long Big Story In A Teeny Tiny Place – Clarence Jazz Festival, Rosny Barn, Rosny, Australia
2024 | Loud – Social Gallery, Salamanca Art Centre, Hobart, Australia
Public art and commissions
2026 | Rosny Skate Park – mural, Vibrance and City of Clarence, Australia
2026 | Thoroughfare Street Art Festival – mural, City of Launceston, Australia
2026 | Soxy Beast – commissioned artwork for artist-designed socks, Melbourne
2025 | Clarence Jazz Festival – artwork and visual identity, City of Clarence
2025 | Creative Hoardings – City of Hobart, Australia
Selected group exhibitions and art fairs
2025 | Affordable Art Fair – Tiger Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2025 | Muscular Dystrophy Fundraiser Exhibition – Madeline Gordon Gallery, Launceston, Australia
2023 | Gather Together (Fort Heart Co) – The Long Gallery, Salamanca, Hobart, Australia
2023 | Dream Work – Contemporary Art Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
Community engagement
2025 | Touching Stories – Walking on Art – public program, Devonport Regional Gallery, Devonport, Australia
Residencies and professional development
2025-2026 | Building Blocks Public Art Development Program – Arts Tasmania, Australia
2024 | All That We Are residency – for Clarence Jazz Festival, Clifton Beach, Tasmania, Australia
2022-2023 | Constellations Mentorship Program with Trudi Brinkmann, Contemporary Art Tasmania, Australia
Selected publications
2025 | Art Seen – Issue 16, Summer; curated by Gita Joshi, UK
2024 | Beyond Words – Issue 47, May
2023 | Estila – Artists, Sourcebook for Designers, UK
Collections
Private collections in Australia, Belgium, Switzerland and the United States.
Education/training
2018 | Devising Course – Greenhouse of Fools – Melbourne, Australia
2017 | Clowning Course – The Tao of the Clown, Hobart, Australia
1997-2000 | Diploma of Choreography and Dance – Zurich Tanz Theater Schule, Zurich, Switzerland