Alex Monteith

Alex Monteith, born in 1977 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, is a new media artist and academic who has lived in New Zealand since emigrating there in the late 1980s, and she is also a competitive surfer. Her art, which includes exhibitions at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery and the Museum fuer Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt, often works with large-scale geographies such as the ocean. In surfing she was the Irish national women's champion in 2001 and represented Ireland at the European Surfing Championships in 2001 and the International Surfing Association World Surfing Championship in Durban, South Africa, in 2002. She has also won national titles in the sport according to her biography. She is entered here as a surfer who competes at national and international level alongside a career in the visual arts.