Alexis Rago has been working and exhibiting, nationally and internationally for over two decades both in private and public galleries. In recent years he has focused on creating an ecology of ideas that examine the contingency of the human position in relation to nature. Negotiating the relationship between science and spirituality in the context of evolution and sacred art the primary organisational device is the use of ceramic material to reify biological notions in a sculptural form. Alexis Rago graduated in biology from the University of Manchester and subsequently studied fine art at the Institute for Art and Restoration, Florence. He is a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London.