Alice Foxen’s ceramic sculpture is formed from the memories she collects of encounters with roadside waste. Soft objects found discarded on the street. These once domestic objects have been left to lean and droop, taking on a new life and character for Alice. She finds a quiet beauty in these plump forms.
Walking in her home city of London, Alice finds an endless amount of these unwanted belongings. Meetings with found objects are her personal connection with public space. Through many layers of meditative process and material testing she attempts to capture the spark of that first meeting.
There is an uncanny playfulness to Alice’s work. The soft creases of fabric and foam are captured in surprising ceramic, holding the viewer in their own moment of encounter with form and surface.
2024
Holt Festival, Charlotte Fraser Ceramic and Glass Prize, Norfolk.
European Ceramic Context Triennial, Bornholm, Denmark.
British Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, London.
Botanising on the Asphalt, Kiosk Takeover, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London.
London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, London.
2023
Winter: The Weakening Eye of Day, Cromwell Place, London.
Elemental Lines, Caveliero Finn at Ballroom Arts, Aldeburgh, Suffolk.
Artefact, Design Centre Chelsea Harbour, London.
Salon Show, Caroline Fisher Projects, London.
2022
Royal College of Art Ceramics and Glass Graduate Show, Royal College of Art.
Melting Point, Private house, London.
2024
This House, artist retreat, Stroud.
Shortlisted for the Charlotte Fraser Ceramic and Glass Prize. Holt Festival.
2022
Grocers Bursary Scholarship. Royal College of Art.
2019
Windgate Fellowship Sculpture Residency, Vermont Studio Centre, VT, USA, full stipend awarded.
2016
Winner of The Annex Collection Acquisition Award.
Project Network Residency, International Ceramics Research Centre, Guldagergaard, Denmark.
2013
Shortlisted for FRESH Graduate Prize, British Ceramics Biennial, Stoke-on-Trent.
alice@alicefoxen.co.uk