Degree: B.A. Drawing and Fine Art
University: Camberwell College of Arts London
GraduationYear: 2010 - 2013
“Alice Freeman’s work focuses primarily on what she calls ‘the dark edge of beauty’. Through both sculpture and exquisitely detailed metal plate etchings, she explores the textural qualities of natural and biological forms, creating works that are at once visually appealing and oddly disturbing… Alice’s thought provoking pieces are as much about the phenomenon of viewer response as the forms that inspire them. Ideas of the incongruous and intrusive are themes which run throughout her sculptural work, while ideas of decomposition and the erosion of form are refected in the corrosive, metal plate etching techniques she uses to create her images.”
Mercedes Smith, Masters in the Making, 2017
My work deals with the tactile and textural qualities in etching and sculpture. Forms emerge through manipulating a range of materials These are moulded into an environment transforming it into a tactile space that both repels and attracts. I spend time building layer upon layer before I strip it back and start the process over again. Much of my work is focused on repetition, making marks, building layers and creating textures. Little by little my images take on a three dimensional, visceral quality. I am interested in the way an etching can become sculptural, and how sculpture can become almost linear – a drawing in space."
Commission for the Marylebone Psychotherapy and Counseling Practice, Central London, 2016
Interact Art Fair' Group Show, The Station Kitchen and Courtyard, Bristol, 2017
Spike Open' Group Show, Spike Island Print Studio, 2017
Drawn' Group Show, Royal West of England Academy, 2017
Sci-Art Synergy' Group Show, Royal United Hospitals Bath, 2016
164 Annual Open Exhibition' Group Show, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, 2016
The Other Art Fair' Group Show, Arnolfini, Bristol, 2016
Foreign Lands' Collaborative show with artist Joe Warrior-Walker, Centre Space Gallery, Bristol, 2016
RWA Artist Network Members Group Show' Royal West of England Academy, 2016
Double Helix' Group Exhibition with Susan Aldworth, Studio Upstairs, London
Who is normal' Group Exhibition, Free Space Gallery, Kentish Town, London, 2015
Bells from the Deep' Group Exhibition, Hundred Years Gallery, Hoxton, London, 2015
The Etching Room' Group Exhibition, Siena Art Institute, Siena, Italy, 2013
Above and Below Ground' Group Exhibition and Project, Fisiocritici, Siena, Italy, 2013
B.A. Drawing Degree Show' Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts, London, 2013
BA-SE' Group Exhibition, Shoreditch Town Hall, London, 2012
Draft' Group Exhibition, Bussey Building, Peckham, London, 2012