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Alice Browne (b. 1986, Oxford, UK) completed an MA in Fine Art Painting at the Royal College of Art, London (2016) and a BA in Fine Art Painting at Wimbledon College of Art, London (2009). Solo exhibitions include Galerie Liusa Wang, Paris (2023 & 2022), Flatland Gallery, Amsterdam (2019), Tintype Gallery, London (2019), Limoncello Gallery, London (2016) and OUTPOST Gallery, Norwich (2015). Group shows include Gillian Jason Gallery, UK (2025), ASC Gallery, UK (2024), Zaza Galerie, JP (2024) and Alma Pearl Gallery, UK (2023). Residencies include Hogchester Arts, UK (2023), PADA, Portugal (2023) and Hospitalfield, Scotland (2017). She is a mentor at Turps Education (2018 - present) and a member of the artist collective Binder of Women.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My interests lie at the intersection of nature, technology and fantasy. My visual practice is predominantly painting-based and expands into site-specific installation, photography, drawing and sculpture. I use the flattened space of the canvas, paper or wall to explore frictions between the realms of the real and imagined, drawing attention to the fallibility of human senses and the continual rewriting of history. In my paintings, which I think of as a kind of ‘sci-fi still life’, colourful objects and forms wrestle with an exaggerated presence or lack of gravity.
I want to capture some of the bitter-sweet chaos of the post-human material world and turn it into a unique visual passage that takes time to 'read'. Our experiences of information are altered by a plethora of things - emotional state, the film we saw last night, whether I had my glasses on or not. There is no perfection, no truth; instead I hope to make works that create a tactile experience that embraces the mutability and failings of human experience and the strangeness of what it is to exist, even beyond utility.
Using symbolic references, I explore thoughts and actions that incorporate hope, luck, wishing and promise which I feel exist in a sticky place where imagination can blur with fact. My subjects often touch on everyday themes of self-improvement, duality (eg. of above and below, function vs dysfunction) and the use of natural materials for human advancement. The freedom and flexibility of paint allows for the incorporation of a breadth of ideas and influences taken from history, nature and popular culture as well as my immediate surroundings. I often take influence from locations I visit whilst out rock climbing and walking around the UK as from my close neighbourhood in London.