Education
In high school, Sinclair became interested in various artistic endeavours, studied ballet for over ten years, and has used it as a source for the large amount of role-play in her work. Sinclair attended the National Art School where she studied drawing, painting, sculpture, and photography.
Career
Sinclair has attributed a lot of her creative success to her upbringing in her family restaurant, where she finds meditation in cooking. Sinclair has exhibited in numerous galleries and museums including, but not limited to, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the National Portrait Gallery and the Australian Centre for Photography. Her series The Regal Twelve in the Phantasia exhibition has toured to the Samstag Museum (University of South Australia), and the Biennale in Paris where it exhibited at the Australian Embassy.
In 2009, Sinclair exhibited alongside William Yang and Trent Parke at the Pingyao International Photography Festival.
On 7 June 2009, the American Broadcasting Company"s Sunday Arts covered a story on the exhibition Phantasia curated by Alasdair Foster, the then Director of the Australian Centre for Photography. In August 2010, the American Broadcasting Company"s Art Nation covered a story on Alexia Sinclair.