Alexandra Crosby is a writer, researcher, designer and arts worker committed to developing relationships between communities. She recently received the Kirk Robson Memorial Award for Leadership in Community Cultural Development, the most prestigious award for young Australians involved in community arts. She works with a wide range of groups and individuals, primarily on creative approaches to environmental issues such as forest and water management, and particularly with groups in Indonesia and Australia. In 2005 and 2008, Alexandra was co-director of the Gang Festival with Rebecca Conroy, an ongoing creative exchange project between Indonesia and Australia. In 2008, Gang Festival published an anthology titled re:Publik, Indonesia-Australia Creative Adventures, bringing together reflections and predictions on trans-national cultural relationships over the last ten years.

In 2007, Alexandra returned from a position in Yogyakarta as a Visual Arts Officer for the Australian Youth Ambassador for Development program. In 2004, she worked on the project Beyond the Factory Walls, living on the outskirts of Jakarta and producing digital storytelling and live performance with the group Teater Buruh Indonesia. She has been the curator of two exhibitions of Indonesian art, Sisa: re-use, collaborations and cultural activism from Indonesia in 2007, and Omong Kosong in 2003. She is now completing a phD researching the visual culture of activist communities in Java.

Alexandra writes cultural criticism, fiction and travel stories.
She is currently based in Linz, Austria.

Yogyakarta (2008)