Alice Clough is a research-led artist working across sculpture, film, photography, printmaking, sound, and text. With a background in both archaeology and anthropology, Alice locates her work across and between spaces and disciplines. Her research interests focus around exploring methodologies of the heart, time, wonder, and more-than-human relationships, drawing on theories of posthumanism and vibrant matter.
Alice is also a doctoral researcher with University of Bristol and Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA). Her PhD, which is a Collaborative Doctoral Partnership funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council, looks at strategies for interpreting and communicating the past within the developer-funded archaeological sector, and the affects of these strategies.
Alice Clough (b. 1986, Banbury)
Education
2022 - 2026 Museum of London Archaeology & University of Bristol - PhD Archaeology & Anthropology
2009 - 2010 University College London - MA Material and Visual Culture Studies
2005 - 2008 University of Cambridge - BA (Hons) Archaeology & Anthropology
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Gallery 333, Exeter Phoenix Gallery, Devon
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Through Line, Newton Abbott, Devon
2024 Out With The Old, In With The New, Studio KIND, Barnstaple, Devon
2023 Under/Over (CAMP x Auction House), Krowji G12, Redruth, Cornwall
2023 Thelma Hulbert Gallery Open, Honiton, Devon
2023 Studio KIND. Summer Open, Braunton, Devon
2023 Festival of Archaeology, Council for British Archaeology (online)
2023 Go Wherever You Wish, For Verily You Are Well Protected, Dartington, Devon
2022 Catalogue of Failures (6-month programme), Grays Wharf, Cornwall
2022 Habitats as Heritage, Kresen Kernow, Cornwall
2022 Sentient Performativities (art.earth), Dartington, Devon
2022 Kernow Art Collective, Boconnoc Estate, Cornwall
2021 Bull Mill Arts, Wiltshire
2021 Stone Lane Sculpture Garden, Devon
2019 Put This In Your Window And Think of Me, Cambridge Artworks Gallery and University of Cambridge
2018 Dreaming With Open Eyes, Landscove House, Devon
2018 Artizan Collective, Torquay, Devon
2018 EDGE Sculpture Trail, Dartmoor, Devon
2018 Metáfora Studio Arts, Barcelona
Awards
2024 Artist Moving Image Film Commission (Exeter Phoenix Gallery)
2023 Artist Award (Devon Artist Network)
2022 Mentoring Grant (Cultivator Cornwall)
2022 Time, Space, Money Bursary, a-n (Artist Newsletter)
2019 Mentoring Bursary, a-n (Artist Newsletter)
2018 Emerging Artist Award (Devon Artist Network)
Publications
2022 Contemporary Identities Issue 15, review by art critic Zoltan Somhegyi
2022 Gestures of making: an exploration of material / body dialogue through art process. Co-written with Fo Hamblin. In Tracing Gestures: The Art and Archaeology of Bodily Communication, UCL World Archaeology Series, Bloomsbury Publishing, London. ISBN: 9781350276987.
2016 Make, mistake, journey: practice-led research and ways of learning. Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA-PGN, special edition. Co-written with Anna Piper.
Residencies
2022 Stile Collective, Cornwall
2020 Arts Lab, Dartington Hall
2019 Metafora, Barcelona