Alex Selenitsch is a Melbourne-based poet, artist and architect. He was born in Regensburg, Germany in 1946, arrived in Australia with his parents in 1949 as an IRO refugee, grew up in Geelong, Victoria and moved to Melbourne in 1967 to study. Apart from a few years of travel and a temporary stay in England he has lived and worked in Melbourne ever since.
He graduated in architecture in 1969 and holds a PhD in architecture from the University of Melbourne. As a poet and artist, he is self-taught but has benefited from meeting with, and contemplating the works of Ian Hamilton Finlay and dom sylvester houedard in the 1970s in the UK, Trevor Vickers and Mike Brown in Melbourne in the 1980s, and Petr Herel and Tony Woods in Canberra and Melbourne in the 1990s. He has taught architectural design, theory and history at Deakin University, PIT, RMIT and the University of Melbourne.
His work explores the spatiality of language, often using found compositions and objects. He tends to make works in groups, and an idea, theme or form is often taken across the various disciplines he works in. He exhibits and publishes this work nationally, and examples of his work are held in various international, national and state collections.