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Alice Davies

BA (Hons) Fine Art, Yr3
Alice Davies alice-davies-art.webnode.co.uk alicebd56@icloud.com
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Yr3
2021
#Photography
#Sculpture
photographic installation detail
Claw, photograph on stretched lycra, 2021

In my practice I explore ways in which the body can be presented. Since early High School, I have been fascinated with the human body; no two are the same and I am interested in this concept which is why I show bodily features in different and questionable ways. I don’t want to unveil the body completely, more so make bodily suggestions. My style has developed over time, focussing on more abstract and expressive figuratives rather than realistic depictions. The themes prominent in my work are identity, loneliness and anatomy. The combination works well to produce sculptures and paintings that show the human state in a fragile, vulnerable form of existence. Though my works aren’t very pretty or appealing, I wanted to deliberately show them in unpleasant states. My work is raw but embodies life and the living today; how delicate we and our bodies are in this world. Artists such as Berlinde De Bruyckere and Louise Bourgeois have informed my work, their styles being similar to what I want my work to achieve. Rather than looking like actual figures, the abstract form they take shows emotion and expression which is much more powerful.

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The annual Degree Show is a highly anticipated event amongst staff, students, external partners and friends of the School of Art – it provides a platform for the work that the students have spent so long conceiving and producing. The 2023 Degree Show has been realised through an ongoing testing of ideas in public arenas in which the discourse around art practice takes place. This process of realising practice which engages with audiences has over […]

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