ALICE PARLE
Alice Parle is a painter whose practice explores the complexities of contemporary life, processing tensions between internal and external realities. Over the last decade, her work has developed into a form of survival and self-discovery, allowing her to process disillusionment with late-stage capitalism and momentarily escape the pervasion of digitisation through her studio practice through tactile play and meditative states. Through material experimentation, focussing on unstable physical and energetic presence of her works as an extension of herself, Parle explores the boundaries between reality and abstraction, recognising the human impulse to reflect on psychological and spiritual internal landscapes when the external world is perceived as insecure.
Alice has exhibited work at Goodness Coffee (2022), Fleurieu Art House’s ‘Flourish’ (2023), ‘Out of the Box’ at SASA Gallery (2023), ‘Keeping The Lights On’ at Floating Goose Studios (2023), ‘Small Works of Medium Density’ at Liverpool Street Gallery (2024), and ‘Paintings and Such’ at Fall from Grace (2024). She also had work included in the 2019 SACE Art Show in which she received the Graham F. Smith Peace Foundation Prize.
She is also our Contemporary Arts Club/Graduate Committee President who organised/curated our fundraiser exhibition ‘Small Works of Medium Density’ in addition to UniSA’s 2023 SALA exhibition ‘Out of the Box’ and her solo show ‘Paintings and Such’.