Alice Mahoney
B. Bremen, Germany
Based in Redruth, Cornwall
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Alice Mahoney is a multidisciplinary artist using sculpture, painting, print, film and sound to explore forms, colour, material, and surface, interrogating the relationships between things, exploring space both architecturally and topographically and the interconnectedness of objects, people and places to create fragmented narratives both real and fictional.
Having come from an art conservation background, Alice is interested in disrupting ideas around correct methodologies and material processes and enjoys using unconventional and experimental materials, re-using waste or by-products, questioning ideas around value and permanence within objects and places.
Alice works as a facilitator with both neurodivergent & neurotypical artists, including facilitating a BBC commission in 2020 and most recently working as an artist-educator on The Newlyn & the Exchange Gallery’s two year Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s Teacher Development Funded project to deliver Think, Talk, Make Art, an ambitious programme of professional development and learning for primary school teachers, helping them to harness the full potential of art across their curriculum.
Additionally, Alice has curated and run artist-led spaces, talks, screenings, and workshops, including an artist residency programme at CMR Project Space in Redruth (2018-ongoing) and Project Space, Berlin (2003-2005). Recent funded events she has led include those related to film, photography, publishing and sound. She also founded and co-organized the Inland Art Festival, Redruth (2014 and 2016). Alice plays keyboards in the band Disco Rococo.
EDUCATION
– University of East London, BA (Hons), 1999 - 2002
– Falmouth School of Art, Foundation in Art and Design, 1998 - 1999
AWARDS
– Develop Your Creative Practice, Arts Council England, 2023
– Cultivator skills based mentoring with Naomi Frears, 2023
– a-n Time Space Money bursary recipient, 2023
– Cultivator Skills Development Grant, 2023
– Cultivator mentoring programme with Ella Frears, 2021 - 2022
– Cultivator mentoring programme with Sarah Tripp and curator Andrew Hunt, 2018 - 2019
– Cultivator Creative Investment Grant, 2018
RESIDENCIES
– Schloss Plüschow, Germany, 2023
– The Cornwall Workshop, Kestle Barton, Cornwall, led by Andy Holden, 2019
– Uncanny Valley, Auction House Project Space, Redruth, 2019
– Back Lane West, Redruth, Cornwall, 2018 & 2019
– Fish Factory (HERE) Creative Centre, Stöðvarfjörður, Iceland - (an exchange with seven artists and Fish Factory, Falmouth), 2016
– Liminal Space, TAP, Southend-on-Sea, 2014
– Weekend Shift Part 2, Back Lane West, Redruth, 2014
– Weekend Shift, Stryx, Birmingham, with Back Lane West, 2013
– 4 Weeks 33 Hours, CMR Project Space, Redruth, 2012
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
– CLUSTER, Flamm Festival Redruth, 2023
– Under/Over, Redruth, 2023
– The Redruth Albany Club, Kingsgate Projects, 2023
– The Redruth Albany Club, Redruth, 2023
– The Only Thing More Slippery Than The Elbow, Auction House Space, Redruth, 2022
– Borderlands, Plymouth Art Weekender, 2020
– Scenes, The Picture Room, Newlyn Gallery, 2019
– From A to B, via C, Auction House Space, Redruth, 2019
– Everything is F**ked, CMR Project Space, Redruth, 2017
– Fish Factory *London*, St John on Bethnal Green, Whitechapel Gallery First Thursdays Initiative, 2013
– Ink and Pressure, Fish Factory, Falmouth, Cornwall, 2013
– Weekend Shift, Residency exchange at Stryx, Birmingham with Back Lane West, 2013
– Talking Out Loud (with Liam Jolly), Tardis Projects, Truro, Cornwall, 2013
– 4 Weeks 33 Hours, CMR Project Space, Redruth, 2012
– TRFifteen, CMR, Redruth, Cornwall, 2012
– Set of Odd Volumes, Book Art Exhibition; TAP, Southend, Essex, 2010
BIBLIOGRAPHY
– Idoine & Jane Lowry & Patrick Lowry, Idoine Magazine Edition, 2019
– Everything is F***ed, CMR Project Space, 2016
– Set of Odd Volumes, curated by Amy McKenny, copy held at The National Art Library, V&A, 2010
CURATED EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS
– Exhibitions, events and artist residencies, CMR Project Space, Redruth, 2019 - current
– Conjunction events, CMR Project Space & Fish Factory, funded by Cultivator, 2018 - 2019
– Play Reel, film programme, Inland Art Festival, Regal Cinema, Redruth, 2014
– Digital Artists’ Films, CMR Project Space, Cornwall Film Festival, in collaboration with Cinestar, 2015
PRESS
– Review: Art Monthly (printed, December 2023 / January 2024 issue), Flamm Contemporary Art Festival, written by Martin Holman, 2023
– Article: The Guardian, Not just St Ives: Redruth festival will shine light on vibrant Cornish arts scene, written by Steven Morris, 2023
– Review: Cornwall 365, Late at Tate - Gallery After Hours Returns with a Bang, written by Celeste Allen, 2022
– Article: The Guardian, Play What You See, written by Phil Hebblethwaite, 2020
MUSIC
– Disco Rococo, Late at Tate St Ives, Cornwall, 2022
– Disco Rococo supporting act, Martin Creed, Groundworks, Cornwall, 2018
OTHER
– CMR Project Space, Co-Director/Trustee, Redruth, Cornwall, 2013 - current
– Falmouth University, Visiting Lecturer, 2012 - current
– Think, Talk, Make Art, Artist Facilitator, The Paul Hamlin Foundation Teacher Development Fund and Newlyn Art Gallery & the Exchange, 2021 - 2023
– A Sense of Place, Artist facilitator, Emerging Artist Platform, Falmouth School of Art partnership with Tate St Ives, 2021
– Underworld, Artist facilitator, Shallal Arts, 2021 - 2022
– Scores of People Project, Artist facilitator, Moogie Wonderland, 2020 - 2022
– Rory’s Alternative Guide to the Woods, Producer, BBC New Creatives commission with Rory Bray-Harper 2020
– Inland Art Festival, Founder, co-organiser and concept, Redruth, Cornwall, 2014 & 2016
– Co-Director/Manager, Project Space, Berlin Mitte, Germany, 2003 - 2005