Alice Walton (b. 1987)
Alice is a British ceramic artist whose intriguing labyrinthine forms have attracted international acclaim. With a forensic eye, she translates the seemingly familiar into highly complex and multi-layered porcelain objects. Despite featuring intensely textured surfaces and complex colours, her work is also recognised for its meditative qualities. It is this tension between the repetitive and experimental, the calm and the kinetic, that makes her objects so compelling. She uses a panorama of objects, crafted from individual components, to create abstract scenes. Using repetitive, ritualistic mark-making, her work reflects how we continuously reobserve familiar objects during daily commutes, pivoting away from the literal into the imaginary and abstract. She firmly believes the creative journey becomes part of the technique, a philosophy that first emerged during her academic career. She is a Postgraduate (MA) of Ceramics from the Royal College of Art in 2018 and also completed an Undergraduate BA (Hons) Degree from the University of Brighton, for which she was awarded a Distinction in Wood, Metal, Ceramics and Plastics.
Alice has been an artist in residence during the European Ceramic Context in Denmark, a graduate residence at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London and a summer resident in Cove Park, Scotland. In 2017, she was awarded the Sir Eduardo Paolozzi Travel Scholarship, and in 2018, she was awarded the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust. Alice’s one-off abstract ceramics have been exhibited worldwide, including the Victoria & Albert Museum, Tate Modern, Make Hauser & Wirth, Officine Saffi, and Collect 2020. She was awarded the Wedgewood Prize at the British Ceramics Biennial in 2019.
