Alice Wormald
Alice Wormald creates paintings depicting strange constructed spaces where surface and depth, representation and abstraction and naturalism and artifice converge. The works often emerge through the process of image collection and collage. She exercises a controlled sense of representation, grounded in concerns around the act of painting and the physicality of paint itself, while reflecting a hallucinatory experience of space and nature.
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Alice Wormald completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts with first class honours at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne in 2011. She has held six solo exhibitions at Daine Singer, as well as solo exhibitions at Gallery 9, Linden New Art, Blindside and Shifted. Her work has been exhibited in Synthetica, a NETS touring exhibition at Wangaratta Art Gallery, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Counihan Gallery, Gippsland Art Gallery, Latrobe Regional Gallery and Wagga Wagga Art Gallery. She has also been included in exhibitions including Accession, Bundoora Homestead (2018), Analogue Art in a Digital World, RMIT Art Gallery (2018), Gardening is not a Rational Act at c3 Contemporary Art Space (2017), Visiting Painting at Horsham Regional Art Gallery (2016), Imagined Worlds, Town Hall Gallery (2016) and Vertigo, an Asialink touring exhibition at Galeri Soemardja, Bandung, Indonesia, Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Taipei, Taiwan and POSCO Art Gallery, Seoul, South Korea (2014). Other group exhibitions include Sydney Contemporary, Spring 1883 Art Fair (Sydney 2017 and 2015, Melbourne 2020, 2018, 2016 and 2014) and New Horizons at Gippsland Art Gallery in Sale (2013).
Wormald is the winner of the 2022 Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize and the 2022 Grace Cossington Smith Early Career Award. She has also been a finalist in the Bayside Art Prize (2020, 2017), Darebin Art Prize (2017, 2015), Bruny Island Art Prize (2016), City of Albany Art Prize (2015), Geelong Contemporary Art Prize (2018 and 2014), the John Leslie Art Prize (2016, 2014 – Highly Commended, 2012), the Macquarie Group Prize for Emerging Artists (2013), and the Banyule City Prize for Works on Paper (2013).
Her work is held in the ACU, Artbank, Bayside Gallery, Gippsland Art Gallery, Darebin City Council, Macquarie Group, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Fiona Myer, Artisit and Joyce Nissan Collections. -
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Alice Wormald (born 1987 Auckland/Tāmaki Makaurau, New Zealand, lives Melbourne/Naarm)
Education
2008 – 2011 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), Victorian College of the ArtsSolo exhibitions
2025 Window Dressing, Daine Singer, Naarm/Melbourne
2024 Window Fold, Gallery 9, Sydney
2022 Small Variations, Daine Singer, Naarm/Melbourne
2020 Uncertain Circle, Gallery 9, Sydney
2020 Partly Altered Aperture, Gallery 9, Sydney
2019 Passion Recognition, Daine Singer, Naarm/Melbourne
2017 Inversion Scenes, Daine Singer, Naarm/Melbourne
2016 Offerings, Gallery 9, Sydney
2015 Arrangements, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2014 Ordinary Picture, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2012 Occluded View, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2012 In the Unreal Air, Blindside, Melbourne
2010 Wayside & Hedgerow, Shifted Gallery, MelbourneGroup exhibitions
2026 Breaking Ground: Women Artists in the Whitehorse Art Collection, Whitehorse Artspace
2022 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Gallery
2022 O Horizon, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart
2022 (winner) Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize, Bayside Gallery
2022 Len Fox Painting Prize, Castlemaine Art Museum
2021 Spring 1883, Melbourne
2018 Accession, Bundoora Homestead, Melbourne
2018 Recent Acquisitions, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Horsham
2018 Analogue Art in a Digital World, RMIT Art Gallery, Melbourne
2018 Imagine, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale
2017 Gardening is not a rational act, c3, Melbourne, curated by Tai Snaith
2017 Spring 1883, Sydney
2017 Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Carriageworks, Sydney
2016 Visiting Painting, Horsham Regional Art Gallery
2016 Spring 1883, Melbourne
2016 Imagined Worlds, Town Hall Gallery, Melbourne, curated by Kent Wilson
2016 Concrete Agenda, c3, Melbourne, curated by Tai Snaith
2016 Verdant Garden, Bundoora Homestead, Bundoora
2015 Spring 1883, Sydney
2015 Atmosphere, Linden Projects, Melbourne
2015 Synthetica, NETS Victoria, Wangaratta Art Gallery, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Counihan Gallery, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
2014 In Bloom, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale
2014 Spring 1883, Melbourne
2014 Vertigo, Asialink, curated by Claire Anna Watson, Galeri Soemardja, Institute of Technology, Bandung, Indonesia; Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Taipei, Taiwan
2013 New Horizons, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, curated by Simon Gregg
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, MelbournePrizes
2022 Finalist, Len Fox Painting Award, Castlemaine Art Museum
2022 Winner, Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize, Bayside Gallery
2022 Winner, Grace Cossington Smith Early Career Artist Award
2022 Finalist, Len Fox Painting Award, Castlemaine Art Museum
2018 Finalist, Sunshine Coast Art Prize
2018 Finalist, Geelong Contemporary Art Prize
2017 Finalist, Darebin Art Prize
2017 Finalist, Bayside Art Prize
2016 Finalist, Bruny Island Art Prize
2016 Finalist, John Leslie Art Prize
2015 Finalist, Darebin Art Prize
2015 Finalist, Albany Art Prize, Perth
2014 Highly commended, John Leslie Art Prize
2014 Finalist, Geelong Contemporary Art Prize
2013 Finalist, Banyule Award for Works on Paper
2013 Finalist, Macquarie Group Emerging Artist Prize
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 GalleryBibliography
2022 Tiarney Miekus, The Age, 26 February, 2022
2019 Olivia Poloni, ‘Stories with unbound endings,’ Passion Recognition catalogue essay, Daine Singer, Melbourne, 2019
2017 Artists: Alice Wormald, Art Collector Magazine, Sydney Contemporary Special Edition
2017 Lisa Sullivan, 'Inversion Scenes', catalogue essay, Daine Singer, Melbourne, 2017
2017 Artists: Alice Wormald, Art Collector Magazine, Sydney Contemporary Special Edition
2014 Owen Craven, ‘Alice Wormald’, Artist Profile, Sydney, November 2014
2014 Ace Wagstaff, Smart Arts, RRR FM (audio at 31 min), 20 March 2014
2014 ‘Australian art on tour across Asia’, ABC News 24, 13 March 2014
2014 Dan Rule, ‘In the galleries’, The Age, 15 March 2014
2014 Toby Fehily, ‘Alice Wormald ‘Ordinary Picture”, The Thousands, 24 February 2014
2014 Kelly Fliedner, Ordinary Picture, catalogue essay, Daine Singer, Melbourne, 2014
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.comCollections
City of Darebin
Joyce Nissan Collection
Fiona Myer Collection
Gippsland Art Gallery
Australian Catholic University
Macquarie Group
ARTisIT
Bayside Gallery
Whitehorse City Council
