Alexi Marshall

Alexi Marshall (b. 1995, London, UK) is a Hastings-based artist and graduate of the Slade School of Art (2018). Working across print, paint, mosaic, and embroidery, her practice explores themes of womanhood, folklore, and where the veil between worlds grows thin. Rooted in the tactile and handmade, with traces of her process—scuff marks, slippages, and fingerprints—are embraced.

Marshall’s work constructs theatrical tableaux where narrative and its subversions are central. She weaves deeply personal experiences into her work, crafting new mythologies that challenge traditional ones and merge autobiography with archetype. By reclaiming stories constrained by history or myth, she uses them as tools for personal and societal reflection. Often focusing on womanhood, her work integrates the personal and political, in a continuation of feminist storytelling traditions.

Without access to a printing press, Marshall uses her body—her weight, hands, and feet—to create her large-scale linocut prints. This physical approach allows for balancing control with an embrace of the unexpected.

Marshall has exhibited in five solo shows, including Nostalgia for the Mud at Brooke Benington Gallery (2024), Under the Pomegranate Moon (2023) Flatland Projects, Taming The Unruly Gods at Sara Zanin (2023), Cursebreakers at the De La Warr Pavilion (2021), and The Redemption of Delilah at Public Gallery (2019). She was shortlisted for the Arts Foundation Futures Awards 2024 and is a Guest RE at the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers for 2024–2025. She also facilitates Peculiar Arcana, a community-focused printmaking project, and collaborates with Wysing Arts Centre on workshops for their Creative Youth Council, recently completing a large-scale permanent mural commission with the group.