Alice Macdonald, Sunbathing and Seagulls, 2025
Distemper, canvas and scrim on hessian and wood, 25 × 30cm
Alice Macdonald is an emerging, London-based artist whose diaristic paintings are informed by a broad range of sources spanning historical literature, myths, fairytales, memories, and friends and family painted from life. Fascinated by the complexities of human emotion and relationships, she is attracted to the cinematic and the melodramatic, whether drawing scenes from classic films, or painting in the landscape.
This new, unique work is part of our ‘A Day at the Seaside’ exhibition and online collection. Inspired by a recent visit to family in Spain, it is one of a pair of studies on wood made for a larger paintings created later in Los Angeles. In this work, Alice continues to use the collaged elements which give her unique works a ‘constructed’ quality; this suggests a sense of vulnerability whilst giving the works texture and depth. The slim painted frame around this painting was made by the artist.
Alice studied at Falmouth University (2011- 2014) followed by the Royal Drawing School (2016 - 2017). Since graduating, she has undertaken several artistic residencies in locations including Scotland, India and Italy. She has exhibited her work widely in the UK in group exhibitions including the Denton's Art Prize, London (2021) and the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts (2021, 2 and 3); a solo exhibition was presented in LKIF Gallery, Seoul, Korea in 2023. She was awarded the Great Art Prize, given at the National Original Print Exhibition, 2017, and the RWS Young Artist Award at the Royal Watercolour Society Open, Bankside Gallery, London. In September 2023 she graduated with an MA from City and Guilds of London Art School, winning the ASC Studio Residency Award.
Oliver Projects has exhibited her work on several occasions including at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair in 2022 and 2023, and the London Art Fair in 2025. Soho Revue presented a joint exhibition of Alice’s work with Joana Galego’s in December 2024. Alice is based in south east London.
Distemper, canvas and scrim on hessian and wood, 25 × 30cm
Alice Macdonald is an emerging, London-based artist whose diaristic paintings are informed by a broad range of sources spanning historical literature, myths, fairytales, memories, and friends and family painted from life. Fascinated by the complexities of human emotion and relationships, she is attracted to the cinematic and the melodramatic, whether drawing scenes from classic films, or painting in the landscape.
This new, unique work is part of our ‘A Day at the Seaside’ exhibition and online collection. Inspired by a recent visit to family in Spain, it is one of a pair of studies on wood made for a larger paintings created later in Los Angeles. In this work, Alice continues to use the collaged elements which give her unique works a ‘constructed’ quality; this suggests a sense of vulnerability whilst giving the works texture and depth. The slim painted frame around this painting was made by the artist.
Alice studied at Falmouth University (2011- 2014) followed by the Royal Drawing School (2016 - 2017). Since graduating, she has undertaken several artistic residencies in locations including Scotland, India and Italy. She has exhibited her work widely in the UK in group exhibitions including the Denton's Art Prize, London (2021) and the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts (2021, 2 and 3); a solo exhibition was presented in LKIF Gallery, Seoul, Korea in 2023. She was awarded the Great Art Prize, given at the National Original Print Exhibition, 2017, and the RWS Young Artist Award at the Royal Watercolour Society Open, Bankside Gallery, London. In September 2023 she graduated with an MA from City and Guilds of London Art School, winning the ASC Studio Residency Award.
Oliver Projects has exhibited her work on several occasions including at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair in 2022 and 2023, and the London Art Fair in 2025. Soho Revue presented a joint exhibition of Alice’s work with Joana Galego’s in December 2024. Alice is based in south east London.
Distemper, canvas and scrim on hessian and wood, 25 × 30cm
Alice Macdonald is an emerging, London-based artist whose diaristic paintings are informed by a broad range of sources spanning historical literature, myths, fairytales, memories, and friends and family painted from life. Fascinated by the complexities of human emotion and relationships, she is attracted to the cinematic and the melodramatic, whether drawing scenes from classic films, or painting in the landscape.
This new, unique work is part of our ‘A Day at the Seaside’ exhibition and online collection. Inspired by a recent visit to family in Spain, it is one of a pair of studies on wood made for a larger paintings created later in Los Angeles. In this work, Alice continues to use the collaged elements which give her unique works a ‘constructed’ quality; this suggests a sense of vulnerability whilst giving the works texture and depth. The slim painted frame around this painting was made by the artist.
Alice studied at Falmouth University (2011- 2014) followed by the Royal Drawing School (2016 - 2017). Since graduating, she has undertaken several artistic residencies in locations including Scotland, India and Italy. She has exhibited her work widely in the UK in group exhibitions including the Denton's Art Prize, London (2021) and the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts (2021, 2 and 3); a solo exhibition was presented in LKIF Gallery, Seoul, Korea in 2023. She was awarded the Great Art Prize, given at the National Original Print Exhibition, 2017, and the RWS Young Artist Award at the Royal Watercolour Society Open, Bankside Gallery, London. In September 2023 she graduated with an MA from City and Guilds of London Art School, winning the ASC Studio Residency Award.
Oliver Projects has exhibited her work on several occasions including at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair in 2022 and 2023, and the London Art Fair in 2025. Soho Revue presented a joint exhibition of Alice’s work with Joana Galego’s in December 2024. Alice is based in south east London.
