Alice cares about the connection between people and the landscapes that surround them. Working at the intersection of ecology, femininity and disability, she combines labour and precision with ideas of homeland and community to make herself a place within the systems around her. Her work weaves printmaking, performance, textiles, cartography and sculpture, frequently incorporating collections of found natural materials such as sheep’s fleece, feathers, wood and cuttlefish bones. Alice explores the simultaneous strength and vulnerability of our bodies and our natural world. Drawing on her childhood on a sheep farm in Derbyshire, she engages with discourses of land ownership, access, and usage. She imagines that every patch of earth is someone’s special place, and she would love to introduce you to hers.
Alice holds a First Class BFA in Fine Art from The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford (St John’s College) and a Distinction from her Art Foundation at Manchester School of Art. Alongside this, Alice is a founding member of The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities' Art Biodiversity and Climate Network, and was a member of the UK New Artists' Collective. She is currently receiving the Toby O'Brien Bursary at Newlyn School of Art. She is also a Printmaking Tutor at the Bodleian Libraries and Christ Church, University of Oxford, and a Producer for Adults & Communities at Modern Art Oxford. She works both from her studio with Fusion Arts in Oxford, and her home in Charlesworth, Derbyshire.
Selected CV - full CV available on request
Education
Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, BFA Fine Art (2019-22)
Manchester School of Art, Foundation Diploma in Art and Design (2018-19)
Awards
Egerton Coghill Landscape Prize (Runner Up), Ruskin School of Art
Kevin Slingsby Prize for Funnel Vision (Shortlisted), Ruskin School of Art
Finalist for the EMPRES Art of Noises with collective MIXER//SHREDDER, Modern Art Oxford
Alumni Prize for Best Final Exhibition in Foundation, Manchester School of Art
Dean's Prize for Best Sketchbook, Manchester School of Art
Solo Exhibitions
I Want To Dance In The Grass, Modern Art Oxford (2024)
She Can Sleep Through Anything, Old Fire Station, Oxford (2024)
She Can Sleep Anywhere, Nunhead Cemetery Chapel, London (2024)
My Family's Farm, The Dolphin Gallery, Oxford (2022)
Cluster, The Barn, Oxford (2020)
Residencies
Residency in Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire, with UK New Artists, in association with SO Festival and North Sea Observatory (2023)
Artist in Residence at Nature Based Solutions Initiative, organised via the Art Biodiversity and Climate Network, funded by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (2021)
Group Exhibitions
Soft Egg, Don't Wear It, The Salthouse, Lincoln, (2023)
Short Supply's MADE IT, The Royal Standard, Liverpool (2023)
Nightlife with Loose Screws, E1, London (2023)
Portal, Llantarnam Grange, Cwmbran (2022)
Beyond the Pale, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (2022)
Amongst the Flowers and the Garbage, Le 6b, Paris (2021)
EMPRES Sound Art Award, Modern Art Oxford (2020)
Industry Magazine's Synthesia, Fusion Arts, Oxford (2020)
Projects and Events
Speaker at the British Society for Literature and Science' Imagining Queer Ecologies symposium (2023)
Member of the UK New Artists' Collective (2022-23)
Editor of St John's College's 1555 Magazine (2019-22)
Speaker at Creative Conversations with Artists and Scientists, The Natural History Museum, Oxford (2021)
Co-curator of Sign Symbol Sound exhibition, Modern Art Oxford (2021)
Member of TORCH's Art Biodiversity and Climate Network (2020-ongoing)