Clutch

Clutch

Clutch Hens’ eggs provide the scale and form around which a variety of soft and rigid materials, all grown, gathered and hand-processed on Alice’s allotment, are used to construct a series of 50 vessels: variations on a theme with emphasis on experimenting with...
Fragments

Fragments

Fragments Fragments – A Response : A series of 21 collagraph mono-prints. Responding to the ‘Ripon Fragments’ of medieval manuscript ‘stowaways’ held in the Leeds University Library special collection. Commissioned as part of the Sadler Seminar Series:...
Hybrid Objects

Hybrid Objects

Hybrid Objects Hybrid Objects form part of a series exploring old tools and other materials found on Alice’s allotment (garden) plot – found objects combined with cultivated and wild plants. Taking a playful approach to a set of old tools led Alice to...
Five Hectares

Five Hectares

Five Hectares In 2020 Chrysalis Arts began to evolve a new programme of Slow Art called Five Hectares. The programme was designed to explore ways of engaging deeply with nature, climate, place and sustainability over an extended period. As part of Five Hectares, we...
Plot 105

Plot 105

Plot 105 Plot 105 formed the focus of practice-based research for Alice’s MA in Creative Practice at Leeds Arts University and became the start of a long-term engagement with site and material. The allotment plot is the main source of materials for Alice’s...