China Heights Gallery presents ERUPTIONS, a survey of recent paintings by Sydney based artist Alex Xerri. The show is offsite at Louis Vuitton Brisbane and brings together twenty two works made over the last four years.
Xerri’s paintings pull from an unusual set of sources. Apex predators, but photographed on clunky early 2000s silver digicams. Fiery sedans. Old video game graphics, the scratchy polygonal kind. Then there are erupting volcanoes, flowing lava, desert nights, and beige computers on fire. She funnels all of this into the studio and builds landscapes from it. The surfaces are rough, acrylic and crushed stone on canvas.
Her references include nature documentaries, car design, and early 3D gaming. She calls the results speculative biomes, places that don’t exist but feel like they could.
A recurring thread in her work is the period around the year 2000. Xerri describes that time as a mix of hangover from the past and excitement for the future. New technology appeared and became obsolete quickly. Her paintings hold onto that tension without nostalgia or irony. They treat outdated objects, silver digicams, blocky game worlds, beige computers, as material worth looking at seriously.
This is Xerri’s first Brisbane exhibition. She has shown solo in Sydney and Nottingham, and in group shows across Australia, the United States, and Europe. Her work is held in private collections internationally.
ERUPTIONS opens 22 April 2026 and runs for three months at Louis Vuitton Brisbane, presented offsite by China Heights Gallery.