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ConceptsI call my monochrome paintings 'fragment drawings'. Pencil lines are applied to a white ground and obscured or brought out. The images arising from this process are often recurrent and obsessive. Heads, beasts, animals shift shape, travel the mysteries of birth and death. Banal or sublime forms evoke traumas of early relationships. ...
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The nature of language, and, in particular, its limitations as a method of expressing deep and difficult feelings, informs much of my work. I work directly with books, texts and paper ephemera to create drawings, installations and sculptures that pose questions rather than deliver answers about how we communicate within our familial and intimate...
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Alice Briggs is an artist from Aberystwyth. She studied Visual Performance at Dartington College of Arts and later went on to take an MA in Art Museum and Gallery Studies at Newcastle University. Alice's current work engages with memory and objects in the practice of collection and interpretation within museums, galleries, outdoor spaces and the...
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Concepts I live a quiet and simple life in the hills of mid-coast Wales, and my work reflects that. I am inspired by trees and the sea. In my personal history they mean refuge, but it isn't important to know that to appreciate the work. It is just where I'm coming from and why there is the affinity. I really like the fact that they appear...
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