Alex Mullen is an Australian artist based in the French countryside of Provence. Working across painting, drawing, and writing, his practice is centred on themes of place, displacement, memory, and impermanence. Across figurative narrative works, poetry, and more recent landscape paintings, his work explores the emotional and psychological relationship between people and the environments they inhabit.

Raised in Adelaide, Mullen has since lived and worked in London, Webb Beach in rural South Australia, and southern France. These contrasting environments, ranging from dense urban centres to isolated coastal landscapes, continue to inform the atmosphere and subject matter of his work.

Many of his exhibitions have incorporated original poetry alongside visual works, often using humour, melancholy, and narrative to explore themes of instability, mortality, identity, and transience.

In recent years, his practice has increasingly focused on landscape painting. Developed through a process of gradual translation, his paintings move through successive stages from photograph to drawing, pastel study, and finally painting. Through this process, atmosphere, rhythm, colour, and structure become increasingly emphasised, moving the work away from direct representation and toward something more emotive, reflective, and shaped by lived experience.

Mullen completed a Bachelor of Visual Art at the Adelaide Central School of Art in 2015 and is co-founder of Floating Goose Studios. He has exhibited in Australia, France, the United Kingdom, and India.