Alice Macdonald British, b. 1992

 

Education

MA Fine Art 2022-23 City And Guilds Art School, London (distinction)
The Drawing Year 2016-17 The Royal Drawing School (post-graduate diploma) 
Illustration BA Hons 
 2011-14 Falmouth University 
Foundation Diploma in Art and Design ​2010-11 Oxford Brookes University

Selected Exhibitions


Solo and Two Person Exhibitions 

2025 (upcoming) The Cabin, LA
2024 A Hand Is Not A Cage two person exhibition with Joana Galego at Soho Revue
2024 Looking Glass two person exhibition with Jessica Jane Charleston at Weald Contemporary, Sussex 
2023 Fruit, Birds, Flowers, Trees (solo show) LKIF Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2022 The Gentle Vibration Of Things (solo show) curated by Paint Talk, V.O curations, London
2020  Silent Disco  Collaborative installation with Mark Connolly at Wells Projects, London

Group Exhibitions 

2025 London Art Fair with Oliver Projects, London

2024 Print Revue Soho Revue, London
2024 Still Life Contemporary Six, Manchester 
2024 Liminality EY Projects, China
2024 Almost Blue Oliver Projects at The RWS Gallery, London
2024 Work On Paper 6 Blue Shop Gallery (online)
2024 Behold Your Heart at Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London 
2024 Moments Of Glad Grace with The Violet Hour at Abbot And Holder, London 
2024 Moodlight at The Platform by VCRB Gallery, Antwerp
2023  Small Worlds The Graduate Gallery, London​
2023  Samhain Purslane (online)
2023  Ode To Autumn The Violet Hour (online)

2023  Don't Look Back Vivienne Roberts Projects, London
2023  Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair with Oliver Projects, London 
2023  Moored Together Canal Boat Art Fair, London
2023  MA Degree Show City and Guilds Art School, London
2023  RWS Now Royal Watercolour Society, London
2023  Work On Paper 5 Blue Shop Gallery (online)
2023  Summer Exhibition The Royal Academy, London
2023  Power Play Oliver Projects, London
2023  Love And Worry Pound Arts Centre, Corsham 
2023  Who Holds The Sword? Hypha Studios, London

2022  The Artist’s Office Party The Amber Room , London
2022  Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair with Oliver Projects, London
​2022  Power To Emotion Tart Gallery at Fitzrovia Gallery, London 
2022  Bankley Open Call Bankley Gallery, Manchester
2022  A Well Lived Life curated by Phin Jennings, Drakes, London
2022  Bright Young Things Alex Eagle Studios, London 
2022  Women Celebrating Surrealism at Islington Arts Factory, London 
2022 London Lives Royal Watercolour Society, Bankside, London
2022 Escape Routes Oliver Projects, London
2022 The Amber Room III Reference Point Library, London
2022 Omicron Edition Open Call Tini Mini Room, The Netherlands  
2022  Royal Watercolour Society Open Bankside Gallery, London
2022  Dream Baby Dream Curated by Paint Talk, The Fitzrovia Gallery, London
2022  Assemble V.O curations, Conduit Street, London
2022  Carnival of Clouds Jane Trady Fine Art, Online

​2021  Dentons Art Prize, Dentons, London
2021  Paint Talk Open Call, With Love II online show
2021  Art On A Postcard Winter Auction Soho Revue, London
2021  We Are Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On Aleph Contemporary at The Cello Factory, London
2021  Open Studios V.O. Curations, London
2021  Notes From The Big Screen The Narrow Gallery, London
2021  A Small Good Thing online show curated by Sam Luke Heath
2021  Life On Venus (part II and III) The Tub, Hackney, Live auction via the Auction Collective

2020 The Amber Room II curated by Rosie Reed
2020  Hung Up curated by All Mouth Gallery, The Tub, London
2020  Reaction In Seclusion online show
2020  Curated For Covid online show
2020  The Just  curated by Dan Coombs for Aleph Contemporary 

2019  A High Hang Curated by Christabel McGreevy, Arebyte Project Space
2019  Papillon Tom Faulkner Show Room, London
2019  If You Know You Know ​Arebyte Project Space at Eccleston Place
2019  Spot The Artist Porthmeor Studios, Cornwall
2019  Fresh Air Hot Sauce Arebyte Project Space at Eccleston Place
2019  The Summer Exhibition The Royal Academy of Arts, London
2019  This is The Deep ​The Brixton Windmill, London
2019  Sugar Shilpa, Espacio Gallery, London

2018  Charlie Waller Memorial Trust Art Fair, Newbury
2018  Beep Painting Prize, Esylium Gallery, Swansea
2018  Bow Arts Open Studios, Leegate House, London 
2018  Bainbridge Print Open, ASC Gallery, London  
2018  Downsizing, Cave Space, London
2018  Gift Shop, 66 Exmouth Market, London
2018  Drawing Marathon, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI

2017  Open Studio, Space Studios, London
2017  The Drawing Year End Of Year Exhibition, The Royal Drawing School, London
2017  The Best of The Drawing Year, Christies, London
2017  National Original Print Exhibition 2017,  Bankside Gallery, London 

2016  Make Ready, Attico Arts Centre, Watford 
2016  Line, The Line Gallery, Stroud 
2016  The Family Jewels, Darbyshire Picture Framers, London
 
2015  Drawing Intensive, Mercer Chance Gallery, London 
2015  Pop up GalleryAldborough, Suffolk
2015  Pushing The Envelope, The House of Illustration, London 


Awards and Residencies 

2023 Awarded ACS x CGLAS Studio Prize 
2023 Awarded The Skinner's Company Stephen Gooden Prize For Engraving 

2022 Awarded the Elizabeth Greenshields Grant 

2022  Young Artist Award, Royal Watercolour Society

2021  Painting Residency, Dumfries House, Scotland 
2021  shortlisted for The Dentons Art Prize 
2021 longlisted for the Ruth Borchard Self portrait prize


​2020 shortlisted for the Sequested Prize 
2020 awarded Arts Council Emergency Funding for individuals

2019 Dumfries House Residency, Scotland

2018 Awarded IIFA Teaching Residency (Modinagar, India) 

2017 Awarded the Rhode Island School of Design Residency Prize 
2017 Shortlisted for the Gwen May Student RePrintmakers Award
2017 Recipient of The Great Art Prize at the National Original Print Exhibition 2017.

2015 – 2016 Artist in Residence (Ceramics) at Lyndons Arts Trust London 

2014 Artist in Residence (Printmaking) at the Scuola Graphica Internazionale, Venice 
2014 Shortlisted for the Falmouth Reportage Drawing Award