Poetry and forms of map-making have always played an important part in the practice, which essentially centres around ambiguities in human perceptions of ‘nature’. The work involves minute exploration through the languages of sculpture, film, drawing and painting, often in collaboration with her partner Louise Short, under the moniker of Short&Forward.
Poetry and forms of map-making have always played an important part in the practice, which essentially centres around ambiguities in human perceptions of ‘nature’. The work involves minute exploration through the languages of sculpture, film, drawing and painting, often in collaboration with her partner Louise Short, under the moniker of Short&Forward.
Their migration to rural Wales ten years ago has had a profound effect on their perspective.
Short&Forward are currently working towards a show in Tampere, Finland in 2023 (postponed from 2020) : sculptural assemblages, drawings and paintings reference vernacular and animal architecture, animal traps, tunnels and abandoned mines around the Rheidol valley where they live.
Alice's work,Twnel, was purchased for the National Library of Wales collection in 2021.
Qualifications and training
2000s - MA Fine Art with Distinction, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, Wales
- BA (Hons) Ceramics, first class, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, Wales
1980s - Documentary Film Training, BBC Ealing Studios, London
1970s - BA (Hons) Fine Art, Hornsey School of Art (Middlesex University), London
Solo exhibitions
2014 - Swarm Society, Ceredigion Museum, Aberystwyth, Wales, UK
2010 - Bee Lines, Stroud Valleys Artspace, Gloucestershire, UK
2006 - Regeneracion, Biblioteca Nacional de Tunal, Bogota , Colombia
Public Collections
The National Library of Wales collection
Group exhibitions
2021 - Oriel Lockdown, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales, People's Prize winner
2019 - DEFAID/SHEEP at Ceredigion Museum, Aberystwyth, Wales
2018 - Gathering, UK/Georgian artists at Ambrolauri State Museum and Tbilisi History Museum, Republic of Georgia.
2016 - The Drawing Book, University of Carmarthen.
2015 - Griffin Gallery, London. Conte Drawing Prize finalist. Short&Forward at BV Open 2015, Bristol UK. Excerpt From a Library of Cast Objects, New British Art, Cylhrynys, as part of the 2015 National Eisteddfod, Wales, UK .The Art of Pollination, Peninsula Gallery, Plymouth, UK
2013 - Sweet Dreams, Wallsworth Hall, Gloucestershire, UK.
2012 - Boar Skull Vanitas, Short&Forward collaborative filmwork screened at Geneva Projects Film Festival, Bristol. 2012 - Art&Bee, Buckfast Abbey, Buckfastleigh, Devon.
2011 - Marmite Prize for Painting finalist, Central Art Gallery/Lanchester Gallery/The Nunnery, Tameside/Coventry/London, UK.
2010 - Lines of Desire, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Wales, UK 2010 - Super8Station Film Festival, ARNOLFINI, Bristol, UK 2009 - AiM International Biennale, Cyber Park, Marrakech, Morocco
2009 - Curatorial Contrasts, BAYART gallery, Cardiff, Wales, UK. 2009 - The Darbyshire Award (winner), Museum in the Park, Stroud, UK 2007 - Cardiff Fine Art MA Show, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, Wales, UK 2007 - Very Important Products, CentreSpace Gallery, Bristol, UK
2006 - Venice Bienal de Bogota, Barrio of Venice, Bogota, Colombia 2005 - The Marconi Project, Site-ations International 2005-6 (Artists Projects), Flatholm Island, Bristol Channel, UK 2004 - From The Ground Up, Old Brewery Galleries, Brick Lane, London, UK. 2003 - Fossil Fuel, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, Wales, UK
2011 - SUPER8STATION Film Festival, live film accompaniment at ARNOLFINI, Bristol, UK - 2010 - The Bristol Beehive Inaugural Walk, public participatory event, Arnolfini Gallery to Windmill Hill, Bedminster, Bristol, UK
2007 - Being Bird, Resound Art/Radio Sonic Art Conference, Stroud Valleys Artspace, Gloucestershire, UK
2014 - Bees in Art, lecture at Ceredigion Museum offsite gallery, Aberystwyth - 2011 - Artist's Presentation, Cortijada de Los Gazquez, Andalucia, Spain 2010 - In Conversation with Tom Trevor (director of ARNOLFINI GalleryBristol), SVA , Stroud, UK 2009 - Artist's Presentation, Cortijada de Los Gazquez, Andalucia, Spain - AiM Report, Stroud Valleys Artspace, Stroud, UK - 2006 - Invasion, Presentation, Biblioteca Nacional Central, Bogota, Colombia
2017 - The Treehouse Project - 8 weeks sculpture workshop with 7-11yrs at Newbridge on Wye CIW School. 2014 - Swarmbuilding, schools workshop at Ceredigion Museum, Aberystwyth, UK - 2009 - Drawing in the Dark I , STATION and Spike Island, as part of The Bristol Drawing Exchange Project, Bristol, UK - 2009 - Drawing in the Dark II, St John's Crypt, public drawing project, Bristol,UK
2018 - Arteli Ratcha residency involving six Georgian artists and six UK artists in rural Racha district of the Republic of Georgia, followed by a sojourn in Tbilisi and
2015 - Popty Bach 2015, South African and Welsh collaborative residency, Oriel Q Offsite, Pembrokeshire -
2011 - Joya Artists Residency Part II, Cortijada de Los Gazquez, Andalucia, Spain
2009 - Joya Artists Residency Part I, Cortijada de Los Gazquez, Andalucia, Spain
2008 - Marrakesh, two week residency funded by AIM Biennale and Stroud Valley Arts
2006 - Wales Arts International funded residency in Bogota, Colombia
2005 - The Flat Holm Project, part of Site-ations International 2005/6, Flat Holm Island, Bristol Channel, UK
2016/7 - Grimaldi's Lunch, plasterwork ceiling, Short&Forward collaborative piece, Venice, Italy - 2009 - AliasArtCamp 2009, documentary film commission for Artist-Led Initiative Advisory Service , South West England, UK 2008 - a momentary: film with Louise Short, Tblisi Film Festival at The Cube Cinema, Bristol, UK 2008 - CLIMB, film commission , Forest of Dean Sculpture Trust and Forestry Commission, Coleford, Gloucestershire, UK Public commissions 2005 - Ghost, sculpture installation, Cardiff Parks, Roath Park, Cardiff, UK
2016 - 2019 and on
~ Dai and Nancy, collaborative Short&Forward film project in the Rheidol Valley
~ Troedrhiwsebon/ Capel Bethel International Artists and Writers Residency Project in Cwmrheidol, Aberystwyth
~ Capel Bethel events organisation
2012 -2014 The Short&Forward MOBILE STUDIO Project: UK, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal 2011 - Beelines on Windmill Hill, Windmill Hill, Bristol, UK
Gathering, catalogue, Tbilisi History Museum publication, 2018. Lines of Desire, catalogue, Oriel Davies, Newtown 2010 - Marmite Prize for Painting 2010, catalogue, Susak Press,London 2010 - International Journal of Nautical Archeology, review, vol.39, issue 2, Blackwell Publishing, London 2009 - International Journal of Nautical Archeology, review, vol.38, issue1, Blackwell Publishing, London 2006 - Sense in Place, Site-ations International 2005-6, catalogue, University of Wales, Cardiff
