In her most recent body of work, Alice Wormald has created paintings in which there is a concentrated investigation and subsequent distortion of aspects of the natural world, which are heightened in order to eschew the naturalistic or the real. Based on arrangements of cut-out natural imagery from books and magazines, these compositions transform into strange landscapes through their reconfiguration into a painted surface.
Alice has a BFA with first class honours from the VCA. She has held solo exhibitions including: In the Unreal Air, Blindside 2012; Occluded View, Daine Singer 2012; and Wayside & Hedgerow at Shifted Gallery in 2010, and has participated in group exhibitions including Recent Work, George Paton Gallery; Debut VII, Blindside; and High Definition, Paradise Hills. She has been the recipient of awards including the Fiona Myer Award, the Casama Group Award and the National Gallery of Victoria Women’s Association Award and is currently a finalist in the John Leslie Prize. Her work is held in collections including the Fiona Myer Collection and Joyce Nissan Collection as well as private collections in Australia, New Zealand and Switzerland.
Tackle
oil on linen, 122 x 152 cm
Aquarium
oil on linen, 92 x 92 cm
Plant
oil on linen, 122 x 152 cm
Shattered, Serried
oil on linen,122 × 152 cm
Fuligin
oil on linen, 102 × 102cm
Waterfall
oil on linen, 122 × 92 cm
In the Unreal Air
oil on linen, 62 x 76 cm
Untitled
oil on linen, 76 x 62 cm
Velvet Cry
oil on linen, 62 x 76 cm
Untitled (#2)
oil on linen, 56 x 81cm (frame 58.5 x 83.5 cm)
Untitled (#11)
oil on canvas, 112 x 76 cm (frame 114.5 x 79 cm)
Untitled (#7)
oil on linen, 112 x 137 cm (frame 114.5 x 139 cm)
Untitled (#1)
oil on linen, 56 x 81cm (frame 58.5 x 83.5 cm)
Untitled (#5)
oil on linen, 112 x 76 cm (frame 114.5 x 79 cm)
Untitled
watercolour on paper, 76 x 56 cm (frame 82 x 63 cm)
Alice Wormald ( born 1987 Auckland, New Zealand, lives Melbourne)
Education
2008 – 2011 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), Victorian College of the Arts
Solo exhibitions
2012 Occluded View, Daine Singer, Melbourne >>
2012 In the Unreal Air, Blindside, Melbourne >>
2010 Wayside & Hedgerow, Shifted Gallery, Melbourne
Group exhibitions
2013 (forthcoming) New Horizons, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, curated by Simon Gregg
2013 (forthcoming) Synthetica, NETS Victoria, curated by Claire Anna Watson
2012 John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale
2012 VCA Graduates, Alliance Francaise, Melbourne
2011 Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2011 Honourable Discharge, VCA Student Gallery, Melbourne
2011 High Definition, Paradise Hills, Melbourne
2011 Debut VII, Blindside, Melbourne
2010 Recent Work, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
2009 Proud, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2009 Skericks, VCA Student Gallery, Melbourne
2008 Proud, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
Prizes
2012 Finalist, John Leslie Art Prize
2011 Fiona Myer Award
2011 The Casama Group Award
2010 National Gallery of Victoria Women’s Association Award
2010 Finalist, The Kilgour Prize for Figurative Painting, Newcastle Region Art Gallery
Bibliography
2013 Shae Nagorka, ‘Blindside’, Art Monthly, March 2013, p.51 >>
2012 Helen Frances, ‘In the Unreal Air’, (cat. essay), Blindside, Melbourne, 2012
2012 Dan Rule, ‘In the galleries: Alice Wormald, Occluded View’, The Age, Life & Style, 18 August 2012, p.5
2012 Simon Gregg, ‘Occluded View’, (cat. essay), Daine Singer, Melbourne, 2012
2012 ‘Alice Wormald’, Alliance Magazine, Sept-Nov 2012, p.5
2011 Dan Rule, ‘In the Galleries’, The Age, 29 Jan 2011
2011 Shae Nagorka, Debut VII, (cat. essay), Blindside, Melbourne, 2011
2010 Dylan Rainforth, ‘What’s On’, The Age, 10 March 2010, p.23
2010 Eugene Barilo von Reisberg, review ‘Wayside and Hedgerow’, www.artsdiary365.wordpress.com
Collections
Joyce Nissan Collection
Fiona Myer Collection
Private collections, Australia, New Zealand and Switzerland
