Irwin aims to convey the innocence we possess as children but also to express the message of human identity; she wants some aspects of her work to be playful, naïve and comical while others are more thought-provoking. Her work offers contrasts: some parts are tactile; others create kinetic experiences in the mind. These contrasts are designed to stimulate different kinds of memory.
Born 1994. London based.
EDUCATION
2016-2018: Royal College of Art London, MA Print.
2013-2016: City and Guilds of London Art School, BA Fine Art.
2012-2013: Cambridge Regional College, Art and Design Foundation Year.
CURRENT
Jul 23-Jul 24- Streaky Dance commision, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield.
May 2022- People Play @ Dean Clough mills, Halifax.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Jan-Apr- ChinWag, Pitzhanger Manor and gallery, London.
2023
Sept8-Sept27- THINGS HAVE TO KEEP MOVING, Zuleika Gallery, Oxford.
2022
June2022-Dec 2023- Peeps @ Trinity Buoy Wharf, London.
2021-2022
Peeps, The Beaney House of Art and Knowledge, Canterbury Museum, Canterbury.
2021
Aug-Sept: Playing with Thought, Upper Gallery, Tremenheere Sculpture Garden.
2020
Nov-Jan: People Play x KCAW, 13 Bramley Rd, Notting Hill, London.
Feb - Nov: People Play, The Piece Hall, Halifax, Yorkshire.
Click here to watch some films about the show.
2019
May: Kick Back and Relax, 539 Battersea Park Road, London.
2018
Oct: Life lived with Play, Bothy Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023
Jul-Sept 2023 Curiosity and Wonder, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield.
Mar: Good as Gold display, Brockley, London.
Jan-Feb: CURATED AT DORFOLD HALL: BRITISH ART THEN AND NOW, Zuleika Gallery.
2022
Dec: Drawing Near, Tremenheere Sculpture Garden, Cornwall.
Dec: Winter Show with Zuleika Gallery, Cromwell Place, London.
Nov: Woolwich print fair with Zuleika Gallery, London.
April: Ingram Collection, Rawlinson & Hunters, London.
Jan- June: People Play x Tremenheere Sculpture Garden, Cornwall.
2021
Sept: Landmarks, Sky arts/channel 11 Freeview.
Apr-Dec: People Play x Tremenheere Sculpture Garden, Cornwall.
July: Summer Show, Karen Tronel, London.
April: Landmark, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne.
2020
7 Dec: SNOWFLAKE KITCHEN, Online auction with Goldfinger.
4 Dec-4 Feb: KCAW Christmas show, 8-10 Queensberry Place, London.
Nov: The Ingram Collection finalist, (online edition).
Nov: Woolwich print fair, (online edition).
Oct: Five Hides curated by Thorpi Stavri, 33 Manor Place, London.
Oct: The Future is Always in Flux, Artate, (online edition).
Aug: PreludE, ThorpStravi X World Of Fad. (online edition).
2019
Nov: Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Woolwich, London.
Oct: Moniker Art Fair, 90-100 Sydney Street, London.
Sept: NOPE, Bankside Gallery, London.
Aug: MotherLine, Flowers Gallery East, London.
June: Model Room, ANAGRA gallery, Tokyo.
Apr: Facevalue 3, Jealous Gallery, London.
Mar: Platform Projects, Curated by Becca Pelly-Fry (Head Curator of Elephant West), AAF, London.
Jan: Small is Beautiful, Flowers Cork Street Gallery, London.
2018
Nov: The Salamander Devours it’s Tail Twice, Gallery 46, London.
Nov: Woolwich Print Fair, Brocket Gallery, London.
Nov: Paper cuts, Saatchi Gallery, London.
Mar: Hold your horses, hold them, and never let them go, CGP London.
Jan: Play on Repeat, Sid Motion Gallery, London.
Jan: I Contain Multitudes, East of Elsewhere, Berlin.
2017
Nov: AKAA, Contemporary Art and Design Fair, Paris.
Oct: Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Brocket Gallery, London.
Oct: NOPE, Bankside Gallery, London
July-Sept: Mono: an exhibition of unique prints, Flowers Gallery, London.
AWARDS/FUNDING
Nov 2018: East London Printmaker Award, Brocket Gallery, London.
June 2018: Travers Smith Art Programme Prize (Sculpture), London.
Sept 2017: Contemporary Art Trust Prize, Bankside Gallery, London.
June 2016: Norman Ackroyd Etching Prize, City and Guilds of London Art School.
Nov 2015: Anthony Dawson Young Printmakers Award, Bankside Gallery, London.
Sept 2014: The Arts Club: Charitable Trust Award, Bankside Gallery, London.
RESIDENCIES/GROUPS
Mar 2019: London Graphic Store Material Exploring.
Oct 2018: Drawing based Residency, Life lived with Play, Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
Sept 2018-Dec 2020: Bainbridge Print Fellow, Bainbridge print studio, London.
Nov 2017: Project-based Residency, Elephant Lab, London.
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FEATURES
Online films: click here.
2021
Jan: Interview/studio visit with WhyNow.
2020
Oct: Metodo Milano, Alice Irwin.
July: Get To Know: Alice Irwin, Artate.
July: Pressing Matters Magazine article.
May: Story Behind The Artwork, Art Verge.
May: Fine Art Lecture Series: Conscious Isolation.
Apr: ZirArtMag, Alice Irwin.
Mar: FAD Magazine, People Play.
Feb: Guardian People Play, Top 5.
Feb: ‘People Play’ , Halifax.
Feb: Studio visit with photographer Oliver Holms.
Jan: Living North Magazine, People Play.
2019
Dec: The Issue In between, Thalia Magazine.
Oct: Alice Irwin: Artist inside the industry, Art Plugged.
Sept: Where creative people eat and drink, Elephant Magazine.
July: London Live on Motherline at Flowers Gallery.
June: Assemblage Magazine interview with Megan Elliott.
Mar: ‘Playing with Grown-ups’, Becca Pelly-Fry Platform Projects, ArtFrontiere.
Feb: Mizogart Podcast, available on Itunes and Spotify.
Jan: Rising Stars 2019, selected by Holly Black, Elephant Magazine.
2018
Dec: Maeve Doyle’s Private View with Soho Radio.
Dec: Printmaking Today, In Brief.
Dec: People of our Times.
Nov: Life Lived With Play, FAD Magazine.
Oct: Artonapostcard.
Oct: Reciprocal Art Mag.
Sept: Elephant Magazine Studio Visit with Holly Black and Ben McMahon
June: Partnership Editions in Vogue.
Feb: Play on Repeat ITunes Podcast in Collaboration with Sid Motion Gallery