Alice Burns Printmaker

Artist in Residence -Alice Burns

Alice Burns will be artist in residence at Wharepuke from April 25th – May 21st
Alice Burns lives and works in Northern Ireland. She graduated BA Hons, Fine and Applied Art, 1st Class, from the University of Ulster, Belfast, NI in 2010 and Post Graduate Diploma, Art in Public, 2012. Her artistic practice currently explores the associative and fragmentary nature of traumatic memory.

A key element of her practice is a dialogic process that mediates recollection, through which she creates objects offering multiple representations of non-verbalised past trauma. This calls for a multidisciplinary approach that uses process and materials selected by the artist as authentic in relation to the narrative.
“Connections” five works on paper
Using Braille as a starting point these five works explore possible connections to unspoken traumatic memory. Each piece is part of a larger narrative concerning trauma and death.

During her artist residency at Wharepuke Alice will be working with Mark Graver in his Nontoxic Printmaking workshop.