Alice Maclean

Alice MacLean was born in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, surrounded by lakes and the Atlantic ocean. She attended NSCAD University followed by the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, in Paris, where she experienced an appreciable amount of art in person.

Her work explores self-understanding through the evocation of landscapes, combined with the materiality of watercolour paint (thin, thick, textural, and abstracted water marks) and gestures of the human form. “This work is part of an ongoing investigation which aims to elaborate on a model of emotion in self-portraiture and figurative art, and explores how emotional content is generated by internal (bodily) and external experiences (landscapes). To convey a collage, both a landscape and a gestural, figurative drawing aesthetic are presented in work that is intentionally subtle and spacious.”

Alice has attended numerous artist in residency programs, and has exhibited her work in Paris, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Halifax and Toronto. She was most recently awarded a Canada Council for the Arts grant to accomplish her first watercolour animation. Her most recent projects include a solo-exhibition at The Craig Gallery (2021), a mural on the Halifax Ferry Terminal (2021), and a mural with STEPS Public Art for a bank in Halifax (2022).

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