Alex Ekins is a Sheffield based artist and writer examining the human condition and the natural world. 

As a photographer and photojournalist his images have been published in The Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, The Economist, Rock and Ice, The Financial Times, Climbing, Summit and National Geographic. 

2024 

Granta Nature Writing Workshop

2023 

Everest 70: Tales from Base Camp

2022

On the Edge of the Melting - Residential Project, Chamonix, France

Wood, Willow, Moss and Mushroom - The Festival of the Mind, The University of Sheffield 

The Environment  - Group Show, Frontier Gallery, Sheffield

Ossuary - Group Show, Frontier Gallery, Sheffield

Janus Revisited - Group Show, Cupola Gallery, Sheffield

Primal - Solo Show, Kofferraum Haus Gallery

Scion - Group Show, Cupola Gallery, Sheffield

2021 

Recipient of Guild of St George 150th Anniversary Grant 

Print It - Group Show, Aire Place Gallery, Leeds

2020

Meet the Locals  - Group Show, Fronteer Art, Sheffield

All Shall Pass - Group Show, Fronteer Art, Sheffield

The Island Residency, Sheffield

2019

Africa - Group Show, Art Number 23, London

Making Masterpieces in Sheffield and Venice - Mural collaboration with the Big Draw and the Guild of St George

On the Surface of Things - Group show, Access Space, Sheffield

Over The Influence- Group show, Sidney and Matilda, Sheffield

E-Werk Residency, Luckenwalde, Berlin

2018

The Art of Protest Youth Workshop, Millennium Galleries, Sheffield

Alpkit Digital and Smartphone Photography Workshop

2017

Sadhu 17 – Solo Exhibition, Kelham Studios, Sheffield

Up There - Group show, APG, Sheffield

Alpkit Digital and Smartphone Photography Workshop

2016

Island – Group show, 92 Burton Street, Sheffield

Alpkit Adventure Photography Workshop

2015

In Circulation – Group show, APG, Sheffield

Grit – Group Show, Gage, Sheffield

Alpkit Adventure Photography Workshop

2014

Sherpas of Sheffield – Solo Exhibition, Sheffield Adventure Film Festival

High Above Wide Lands - Group Show, Hagglers Corner

2013

Everest Base Camp Residency, Nepal

Wideboyz – Group Show, Sheffield Adventure Film Festival