Alice Channer
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Alice Channer is an artist working with sculpture.
Alice Channer's forms and materials are found in the sensual and social worlds of industrial and natural processes. Over long periods of time, she immerses herself in organic and synthetic materials and production processes to find forms within them that she develops as sculpture. Her method is both experimental and precise, collaborating with machines, materials and people to bring multiple bodies and voices into her polyphonic works.
Alice Channer lives and works in the edges of London.
Academic qualifications
- MA Sculpture, Distinction, Royal College of Art, London 2008
- BA, Fine Art (Studio Practice and Contemporary Critical Studies), First Class, Goldsmiths College, London 2006
- BA, English Literature, First Class, The University of Sussex, UK 1999
Featured publications
2023:
'Heavy Metals / Silk Cut', comprehensive monographic catalogue (English/German)
Essays by Rosanna McLaughlin and Zoë Gray, an experimental text by Daisy Hildyard and a conversation between Stefanie Gschwend and Alice Channer, Designed by Mathias Clottu, Published by DISTANZ
2022:
'Sand In The Vaseline: On 21st Century Process Art', artist-edited feature 'On Process'
Sand In The Vaseline: On 21st Century ProcessIn Sculpture Journal, published by Liverpool University Press, with contributions from 5 invited artists
2022:
'Lockdown Cultures The arts and humanities in the year of the pandemic, 2020-21'
'I have a studio (visit) therefore I exist', by Carey Young, Alice Channer, Anne Hardy and Karin Ruggaber
2021:
The Art Newspaper, Interview: 'I weaponise glamour... I see clothes as a kind of armour that can change and mutate'
Conversation between Alice Channer and Louisa Buck
2020:
Studio Voltaire, Alice Channer on Nnena Kalu
Written in response to Kalu's offsite commission as part of Studio Voltaire elsewhere
Conferences and talks
2023:
New Art Gallery Walsall and Arts Council Touring Exhibitions, 'Breaking the Mould: In Conversation with artists Alice Channer and Rana Begum'
Moderated by Independent Curator Natalie Rudd
2021:
Henry Moore Institute and Pangaea Sculptors' Centre, Roundtable Discussion: Engaging Technologies / Emerging Technologies
Discussion with artists Alice Channer, Daniel Steegman Mangrané and Zachary Eastwood-Bloom
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2021: Liverpool Biennial, Alice Channer - Studio Visit video, March 2021
Exhibitions
Alice Channer's work has been exhibited at the Coventry Biennial, UK (2023), Liverpool Biennale, UK (2021); 55th Venice Biennale, IT (2013); and Glasgow International, UK (2010).
Solo institutional exhibitions include Heavy Metals / Silk Cut across Kunstmuseum and Kunsthalle Appenzell, CH (2023); R o c k f a l l at Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, US, touring with Public Art Fund to to City Hall Park, New York (both 2015); Pool at Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, DE (2014); Invertebrates at Hepworth Wakefield, Yorkshire, UK (2013); Soft Shell at Kunstverein Freiburg, DE (2013); and Out of Body at South London Gallery, UK (2012).
Commissions to make sculptures in public space include Rockpool for High Desert Test Sites in the Mojave Desert, CA, USA (2022); Nanowires for the Engineering Department of the University of the West of England, UK (2021); and Lethality and Vulnerability for Artangel at Orford Ness, Suffolk, UK (2021).
She has participated in numerous institutional group exhibitions including; Milton Keynes Gallery and The Herbert Museum, both UK (2023); Kunsthalle Hamburg, DE (2022/23); the Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (2022); at Marta Herford, DE (2021); Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK (2021); Tate Britain, UK; Ca’ Pesaro, Venice, IT; Towner Gallery, Eastbourne, UK and Nasher Sculpture Centre, Dallas, USA (all 2019); Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2017/18); MO.CO. Montpellier, FR; Kettles Yard, Cambridge, UK; and Museum Morsbroich, DE (all 2018); Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK, Aspen Art Museum, USA and Kunsthaus Hamburg, DE (all 2017); Museum Kurhaus Kleve, DE (2016); Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, LB; Public Art Fund, New York, US and John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK (all 2015); Fridericianum, Kassel, DE (2014); Künstlerhaus Graz, AT (2014); and Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK and Tate Britain, London, UK (both 2012).