TURPS BANANA _ One year of studio painting

Where is the vase, I?

Acrylic and gesso on canvas

122 x 184cm

2023

Been a total treat returning to art school - Alternative Art School, Turps Banana as part of their studio programme from 2022 - 2023.

Led by Phil Allen and orchestrated by Marcus Harvey and Helen Hayward, it has been an absolute pleasure to join the Turps Painting community. Turps provides artists with studio space and regular tutorials, artists talks and contextualising crits, with an invitation to investigate your painting practice via these sessions with mentors as much as with peers on course.

For more of my art works please visit: www.alicemccabe.com

The Unknown Home’s the Known

Acrylic and gesso on canvas

91 x 122cm

2023

Mat(t)er

Acrylic, gesso and hand cut milk bottle tops on canvas

100 x 120cm

2023

Dystopia Wetlands 21.08.23 // Realisation of accessories for Livia Rita at Southbank Centre

It was a delight as ever creating flower boots for Livia Rita’s creatures at Southbank Centre for her new performance Dystopian Wetlands.

In her own words:

DYSTOPIA WETLANDS is a new interdisciplinary performance by Livia Rita & the Avantgardeners based on the ethereal bio punk EP with the same name. The EP will be released in May 2023 alongside a cli-fi music video trilogy. DYSTOPIA WETLANDS explores cross-species alliances; interweaving our identities with nature and creating a future-focused complicity where nature can rebel.

Livia Rita has been tirelessly cultivating a reputation for subverting music through their tantalising and transformative live performances, merging musicianship and brave choreography with self-sculpted wearables (ArtFashion). This collaborative approach serves to explore the oscillating relationship of gender and nature as we strive for inclusion. During the DYSTOPIA WETLANDS live performance, the audience is invited to immerse themselves within a multisensory fantasy landscape, which provokes collective healing and intimate dreaming together with the natural world. The live band transforms into mossy creatures and lets their musical instruments be more and more taken over by samples and algorithms of natural environments, whilst the dancers metamorphosize into radical creatures, uniting the earthy with their imagination and inviting you on a quest to manifest and test possibilities of ambitious future cross-species identities.

For more of her work, please visit: Livia Rita

Sidestep Group Exhibition of female artists curated by Anna Lytridou 23.02 - 11.03 // Set Set Set Ealing

Delighted to take part in this all female exhibition Side Step curated by Anna Lytridou. This exhibition brings together works by artists whose practices do not fall squarely into one type of art making bracket.

I was delighted to exhibit Rake #3. One of an ongoing series of collaged paintings pairing world leaders with garden rakes - the research and raking continues. This rake featurs the Queen.