Alexandra Jule Cipriotti is an Australian contemporary realist painter whose practice examines the construction of femininity through the lenses of advertising, fashion and cinema. She holds a Master of Fine Art (Painting) and a Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting) from the National Art School, Sydney, Australia. Her postgraduate research, Constructed Selves: Feminism, Fashion, Media, and the Performance of Femininity, investigated the relationship between visual culture, societal expectations and the patriarchal systems that govern them. Working primarily in painting, Cipriotti draws upon the seductive visual language of advertising and commercial imagery, employing cinematic techniques and fashion as a political language. By deconstructing and recontextualising these cultural codes, she foregrounds gesture and the sartorial to explore the psychological impact of mass media on female identity. Her paintings interrogate how cultural conditioning prescribes and recycles ideals of femininity so persistently that they become embodied and accepted as truth, exposing the tension between socially prescribed identities and individual agency. Currently based in Italy, Cipriotti is developing her practice within a European artistic context.