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
– Grant recipient, Arts Council England, Develop Your Creative Practice, 2023
– Grant recipient, Cultivator skills based mentoring with Naomi Frears, 2023
– a-n Time Space Money bursary recipient, 2023
– Grant recipient, Cultivator Skills Development Grant, 2023
– Grant recipient, Cultivator mentoring programme with Ella Frears, 2021 - 2022
– Grant recipient, Cultivator mentoring programme with Sarah Tripp and curator Andrew Hunt, 2018 - 2019
– Grant recipient, 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
– 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
– Drawing the Line, Millenium Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall, 2013
– 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
– Unconstructive Play, Arts Space Gallery, Camberwell, London, 2010
– Set of Odd Volumes, Book Art Exhibition; TAP, Southend, Essex, 2010
– Before, Between, Beyond, TAP, Southend, Essex, 2010
– Base, TAP, Southend, Essex, 2009
– The Value of Nothing, ArtsHub, London, 2008
– White on White, Windowlicker, Berlin, 2005
– One Week at Varden St, Varden Street Warehouse, Whitechapel, London, 2002
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
– 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
– Co-Director/Trustee, CMR Project Space, Redruth, Cornwall, 2013 - current
– Visiting Lecturer, Falmouth University, 2012 - current
– Artist facilitator, Think, Talk, Make Art, The Paul Hamlin Foundation Teacher Development Fund and Newlyn & Exchange Gallery, 2021 - 2023
– Artist facilitator, Emerging Artist Platform, Tate St Ives, 2021
– Artist facilitator, Bat Project, Shallal Arts, 2021 - 2022
– Artist facilitator, Scores of People Project, Moogie Wonderland, 2020 - 2022
– Producer, BBC New Creatives commission, Rory’s Alternative Guide to the Woods, 2020
– Founder, co-organiser and concept, Inland Art Festival, Redruth, Cornwall, 2014 & 2016
– Co-Director/Manager, Project Space, Berlin Mitte, Germany, 2003 - 2005