Alice Macdonald, Angus in Spring, 2025
Distemper and cut-out on canvas and hessian on canvas, 25 × 30cm
Alice Macdonald is an emerging, London-based artist whose diaristic paintings are informed by a broad range of sources spanning historical literature, myths, fairytales, memories, and friends and family painted from life. Fascinated by the complexities of human behaviour, emotion and relationships, she is attracted to the cinematic and the melodramatic, whether drawing scenes from classic films, or painting in the landscape.
This new painting on canvas is part of our 2025 London Art Fair presentation. It is a part of a body of unique works which have evolved since Alice’s recent artistic residency at Clover Mill in the Netherlands, where worked from life on paper and explored collaging techniques. Alice often uses her three brothers as subject matter. In this case, Angus is pictured by a window framing a sunny garden which contrasts with the rest of the image’s cool blue palette. Alice says; ‘In many of my paintings of windows I’m thinking about how to paint so that your attention is outside the window rather than inside’. This work features cut-out canvas and hessian collaged onto the surface of the painting giving it a constructed, textured quality.
Alice studied at Falmouth University (2011- 2014) followed by the Royal Drawing School (2016 - 2017). Since graduating, she has undertaken several artistic residencies in locations including Scotland, India and Italy. She has exhibited her work widely in the UK in group exhibitions including the Denton's Art Prize, London (2021) and the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts (2021, 2 and 3); a solo exhibition was presented in LKIF Gallery, Seoul, Korea in 2023. She was awarded the Great Art Prize, given at the National Original Print Exhibition, 2017, and the RWS Young Artist Award at the Royal Watercolour Society Open, Bankside Gallery, London. In September 2023 she graduated with an MA from City and Guilds of London Art School, winning the ASC Studio Residency Award. Oliver Projects has exhibited her work on several occasions including at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair in 2022 and 2023. Soho Revue presented a joint exhibition of her work with Joana Galego in December 2024. Alice is based in south east London.
Distemper and cut-out on canvas and hessian on canvas, 25 × 30cm
Alice Macdonald is an emerging, London-based artist whose diaristic paintings are informed by a broad range of sources spanning historical literature, myths, fairytales, memories, and friends and family painted from life. Fascinated by the complexities of human behaviour, emotion and relationships, she is attracted to the cinematic and the melodramatic, whether drawing scenes from classic films, or painting in the landscape.
This new painting on canvas is part of our 2025 London Art Fair presentation. It is a part of a body of unique works which have evolved since Alice’s recent artistic residency at Clover Mill in the Netherlands, where worked from life on paper and explored collaging techniques. Alice often uses her three brothers as subject matter. In this case, Angus is pictured by a window framing a sunny garden which contrasts with the rest of the image’s cool blue palette. Alice says; ‘In many of my paintings of windows I’m thinking about how to paint so that your attention is outside the window rather than inside’. This work features cut-out canvas and hessian collaged onto the surface of the painting giving it a constructed, textured quality.
Alice studied at Falmouth University (2011- 2014) followed by the Royal Drawing School (2016 - 2017). Since graduating, she has undertaken several artistic residencies in locations including Scotland, India and Italy. She has exhibited her work widely in the UK in group exhibitions including the Denton's Art Prize, London (2021) and the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts (2021, 2 and 3); a solo exhibition was presented in LKIF Gallery, Seoul, Korea in 2023. She was awarded the Great Art Prize, given at the National Original Print Exhibition, 2017, and the RWS Young Artist Award at the Royal Watercolour Society Open, Bankside Gallery, London. In September 2023 she graduated with an MA from City and Guilds of London Art School, winning the ASC Studio Residency Award. Oliver Projects has exhibited her work on several occasions including at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair in 2022 and 2023. Soho Revue presented a joint exhibition of her work with Joana Galego in December 2024. Alice is based in south east London.
Distemper and cut-out on canvas and hessian on canvas, 25 × 30cm
Alice Macdonald is an emerging, London-based artist whose diaristic paintings are informed by a broad range of sources spanning historical literature, myths, fairytales, memories, and friends and family painted from life. Fascinated by the complexities of human behaviour, emotion and relationships, she is attracted to the cinematic and the melodramatic, whether drawing scenes from classic films, or painting in the landscape.
This new painting on canvas is part of our 2025 London Art Fair presentation. It is a part of a body of unique works which have evolved since Alice’s recent artistic residency at Clover Mill in the Netherlands, where worked from life on paper and explored collaging techniques. Alice often uses her three brothers as subject matter. In this case, Angus is pictured by a window framing a sunny garden which contrasts with the rest of the image’s cool blue palette. Alice says; ‘In many of my paintings of windows I’m thinking about how to paint so that your attention is outside the window rather than inside’. This work features cut-out canvas and hessian collaged onto the surface of the painting giving it a constructed, textured quality.
Alice studied at Falmouth University (2011- 2014) followed by the Royal Drawing School (2016 - 2017). Since graduating, she has undertaken several artistic residencies in locations including Scotland, India and Italy. She has exhibited her work widely in the UK in group exhibitions including the Denton's Art Prize, London (2021) and the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts (2021, 2 and 3); a solo exhibition was presented in LKIF Gallery, Seoul, Korea in 2023. She was awarded the Great Art Prize, given at the National Original Print Exhibition, 2017, and the RWS Young Artist Award at the Royal Watercolour Society Open, Bankside Gallery, London. In September 2023 she graduated with an MA from City and Guilds of London Art School, winning the ASC Studio Residency Award. Oliver Projects has exhibited her work on several occasions including at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair in 2022 and 2023. Soho Revue presented a joint exhibition of her work with Joana Galego in December 2024. Alice is based in south east London.
