Alicia French

She currently explores the medium of drawing, painting, and sculpture, seeking to draw out the uncanniness of everyday life and nature that lies dormant within our surrounding environment. Her particular curiosities lie within nature's organic beings, generating inanimate forms that look like they could become animate at any moment; lending to the art movements of Organic and Biomorphic Abstraction. Her work touches upon phobias such as trypophobia and arachnophobia to lend towards the uncanny opposites in her work; known and the unknown, comfort and discomfort, the familiar and the unfamiliar. This combination of subject matter being of interest due to the unexpected response from the viewer, as some experience discomfort and some are drawn even closer to the work, with curiosity taking over. It’s this particular moment that the work goes through that lends to it’s on going dialogue shifting between each individual who confronts it.

In terms of exhibitions since graduating, she participated in a group exhibition of 50 emerging artists called To Continue, all of whom were from Bath Spa University and explored a variety of different disciplines. The exhibition was held at OXO Tower Wharf in London from July 15th to July 18th 2021, where she exhibited my series A Bag of Old Potatoes (2021). Then another group exhibition Curios held at Art_House_Life which was curated by Joanna Kori, the show was a part of the Ventnor Fringe Festival held in Ventnor on the Isle of Wight, running from July 22nd to July 31st. From January 2022 to the exhibition opening, she was given a studio space at Art_House_Life to produce work for the show. She displayed an installation called A Collection of the Imponderable (2022). Her next opportunity is with Aspire Ryde, where she's been invited to complete a window installation to be on display for the entire month of April 2023.

Alicia French b.1998 Isle of Wight, currently lives and works in Sandown, Isle of Wight.

Alicia studied at Bath School of Art, where she was awarded a First Class Honours in BA Fine Art, graduating in 2021.