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Alice Wilson

Profession
BA Fine Art Painting Associate Lecturer
College
Camberwell College of Arts
Person Type
Staff
Alice  Wilson

Biography

Wilson's practice regularly uses elements of landscape furniture and structures such as gates, benches, chairs, huts, cabins and treehouses as both subject and object. She identifies the use of residencies as a way to gain distance and make space for the unknown in her work.

Wilson rejects the specificity of a particular form or site. Instead, she is interested in exploring ideas of home and space. It is not a final representation that she works towards, but through the act of construction she is able to understand better what the fundamental meaning of the material is for her. The majority of the material Wilson uses is not new; the nails, paint, hinges and splinters having lost their original function. However, rather than memorialising their histories, Wilson explores new ways of combining and framing her material to push it towards unfamiliarity.

She has received significant funding from the British Council and Arts Council England for research projects and exhibitions in Aarhus, Denmark (2018) and Merz Barn, Cumbria (2017.) Exhibiting widely both nationally and internationally Wilson is represented by domobaal gallery, London. Most recently she made and installed work in Mumbai, India with SqW Lab (2023.) She has work in several collections including the National Maritime Museum.

Wilson is an Associate lecturer on BA Painting and at the Camberwell Foundation in the painting Specialism.

Links

BA Fine Art Painting

www.alicewilson.org

@alice_m_wilson