Alexander Augustus
Alexander Augustus (born 1988, Cardiff, UK) is a gay British artist best known for his narrative-based social commentary. Augustus builds imaginary worlds and populates them with sculptures, stories, characters and surroundings. His work attempts to create operatic installations which are comprised of classic methods: bronze-casting, woodblock, textiles, metalwork, film and theatre, combined with digital media such as CAD, 3D modelling, Augmented reality, VR and audio. His work typically deals with the social issues he cares about; his solo show at Somerset House (London) dealt with the alienation and despair of young unemployment, and was subsequently archived in the National Portrait Gallery. His architectural steel birds in Seoul and Berlin are permanent public sculptures commenting on the politics of borders. His installation work streamed into Tate Modern imaginatively explores issues of future religious colonialism.