About Alice
Alice's work expresses her belief in art as consolation and our need for emotional connection. Much of her work uses shared behaviours, associations and memories to reveal the similarities that bind us together, but also the infinite variety of human truth.
She has used our to-do lists, our shoes and memories of our grandmother's to this end. Recognising our need for ritual, mystery and catharsis she has employed giant communal washing lines, a magic art caravan and playing cards to reveal our shared unconscious heritage.
Alice feeds our appetite for illusion, spectacle and meaning; from lush phantasmagorical paintings to family trees, lustrous sculptures of imaginary beasts and plants to densely layered and mysterious collages and prints. She has created entire alternative environments, a film of a golden winged oracle which hatches out in a cloud of green smoke and a mystical tower on an island. Enter into her enchanted world where you can leave your troubles in a giant bird-woman's mouth, sit in a monstrous cat's jaws and reflect on the universal condition, go on a journey with the moon, sit in the grandmother's garden and play a game. Visit the Motherhouse and leave renewed, uplifted and joyful.
Alice has had solo projects with the British Houses of Parliament, the National Trust, Tate Modern, Canary Wharf Group, the British Medical Association, No 10 Downing Street, the United Nations, Northampton Museum, the Royal Society of Arts and legendary Hollywood hotel The Chateau Marmont amongst others. She has also worked with global organisations including Ernst and Young, Allen & Overy, Rothschild, Herbert Smith, Chanel and Oxfam. Regularly featuring in the media, from BBC Women's Hour to The Guardian, Alice has had several publications. She frequently collaborates with individuals who are part of our cultural conversation - musicians Annie Lennox, Beverley Knight, Dame Evelyn Glennie and Alison Goldfrapp, Secretary General of the Commonwealth of Nations Baroness Scotland, actress Helen McCrory, Rabbi Baroness Julia Neuberger, artist Sir Peter Blake, designers Bella Freud, Alice Temperley and Nicole Farhi, playwright Sir David Hare, human rights barrister Baroness Kennedy, film makers Emma Freud and Richard Curtis, Lord Chief Justice Baron Woolf and scientist Professor Baroness Greenfield to name a tiny selection.
Exhibitions & Projects
(solo unless stated otherwise)
Alice is currently working on a two-acre sculpture garden and a new film
2023
A Visit To The Oracle, Dirty Lane, Borough, London
Combat Stress Charity Auction, Bankside Gallery, London
2022
Sculpture Installation for The Hollandridge Group, Henley Festival, Berks
Clermont Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, France (Oracle film)
What Did You See In the Garden Honey? Luckhurst, Kent
Artist’s Talk for students in Canterbury, Kent
The Book of Self Loathing, collaboration with Seagull Bindery
2021
Winner Best Fantasy Short Film, Cannes Short Film Festival, France
The Deck of Archetypes, Pallas Athene, London
Eye Of The Collector, Temple, London (group)
2020
Creation of The Grandmother’s Garden collages, sculptures and Oracle film
2018
Playing Cards With My Grandmother, for United Nations International Women’s Day multiple London sites: Reuters Plaza Canary Wharf, River Walkway Tate Modern Bankside, Carnaby Street Soho
Residency at Chateau Marmont Hotel, Hollywood, Los Angeles
2016
The Pram In The Hall, 1 Cathedral Street, London
2013
She Should Have Known Better, Lamb House Rye - National Trust owned home of Henry James
2012
Because A Fire Was In My Head, Cob Gallery, London
2010
The House of Fallen Women, The House of St Barnabas in Soho, London: Grade I listed former refuge for destitute women
Alice Instone, Northampton Museum: home to the largest collection of historical footwear in the world
Phantom of Delight, Archer Street Soho London: former brothel – collaboration with photographer Camilla Broadbent
2009
Interview With A Shoe, BBB Gallery London
Laura Bailey's Lucky Shoes, Chanel Head Office London
2008
In History Anonymous Was A Woman, House of Commons, London
– opened by The Right Honourable Theresa May MP
21 21st Century Women, Ernst & Young Headquarters London
– opened by Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws QC
2007
Phenomenal Women, Royal Society of Arts London
Bibliography
Playing Cards With My Grandmother (2018) - published by Did You See The Crocodile/Pallas Athene
The Pram In The Hall (2016) - published by Did You See The Crocodile/Pallas Athene in 2018
She Should Have Known Better (2013)
Because A Fire Was In My Head (2012)
True British: Alice Temperley (2011)
The House of Fallen Women (2010)
Interview With A Shoe (2009)
21 21st Century Women (2008)
Salon du The catalogue (2009)
Happy Birthday Peace (2008)
Selection of previous sitters and collaborators:
Alice Temperley – Fashion Designer
Alison Goldfrapp - Musician & Producer
Amanda de Cadanet - Photographer and Chat Show Host
Amanda Eliasch - Photographer, Artist and Film-Maker
Angela Conner FRBS - Sculptor
Ann Francke - CEO Chartered Management Institute
Anita Zabludowicz - Art Patron
Annie Lennox - Singer, Composer, Activist
Anya Hindmarch - Designer, Businesswoman
Avery Agnelli - Architect
Baron Woolf - former Chief of Justice
Barbara Taylor Bradford OBE - Author
Baroness Patricia Scotland QC - Minister of State for Justice Baroness Helena Kennedy QC - Barrister, Broadcaster, Author
Bay Garnett - Stylist, Author, Editor
Bella Freud - Designer
Beth Colocci - Artist, Curator, Patron
Beverley Knight MBE - Singer, Songwriter, Producer
Bianca Jagger - Human Rights Activist
Caitlin Moran - Journalist and Writer
Cath Kidston MBE - Designer, Businesswoman, Author
Celia Walden - Journalist and Author
Chantal Joffe RA - Artist
Cherie Blair CBE QC - Barrister, Judge, CB Foundation for Women Claudia Winkleman - TV Presenter
Cilla Snowball CBE - Chairman of AMV BBDO
Dame Evelyn Glennie DBE - Percussionist
Dame Jacqueline Wilson DBE - Author & Children's Laureate
Danielle Lineker - Actress & Model
Diana Henry - Cook and Writer
Dianne Thompson CBE - CEO Camelot Plc
Elle Macpherson - Model, Presenter, Actress, Businesswoman
Emilia Fox - Actress
Emma Freud CBE - Actress, Writer, Producer, Dir of Red Nose Day Empress Stah - Performer
Fiona Banner - Artist
Fiona Bruce - Journalist & Broadcaster
Fleur Bothwick OBE - Dir Diversity & Inclusive Leadership E&Y
Georgie Hopton - Artist
Genevieve Garner – Fashion Ed of Libertine, Model
Grace Saunders – Author
Helen McCrory - Actress
Hilary Stafford-Clark - Journalist
India Knight – Author, Journalist, Sunday Times weekly column
Indre Serpytyte - Artist
Jilly Cooper OBE - Novelist
Jo Wood – Founder Jo Wood Organics, Model, prev m. Ronnie Wood Joanna Berryman – Interior Designer
Jodie Harsh - DJ and Drag Queen
Joe Corre - Founder Agent Provocateur
Kathryn Blair – Barrister
Kathryn Nawrockyi - Gender Equality Director Prince’s Trust
Kathy Lette - Author
Lara Bohinc - Designer
Laura Bailey - Model, Writer and Muse
Lisa Gunning - Film Editor, Director & Writer
Lisa Moran Parker - Film Producer
Lisa Unwin - Founder of She’s Back
Liz Gilmore - Dir Jerwood Hastings Art Museum
Lola Lennox - Musician
Lorraine Candy - Editor of Elle
Lucy McIntyre - Documentary Maker
Lucy Yeomans - former Ed of Harpers Bazaar now Net A Porter
Lynne Franks - PR Guru
Lynne Page - Choreographer
Marisa Drew - Banker
Marta Nowicka - Interior Architect
Nazy Vassegh - CEO Masterpiece
Nicole Farhi - Fashion Designer
Pat Cash - Tennis Player
Patti Boyd - Photog, 60s model, m. George Harrison & Eric Clapton Pinky Lilani OBE - Entrepreneur & Speaker
Professor Baroness Susan Greenfield - Scientist & Broadcaster Professor Parveen Kumar CBE - Leading figure world of medicine Rabbi The Rt Hon The Baroness Neuberger DBE
Revd Dr Fiona Stewart-Darling - Bishops Chaplain in Docklands Sadie Frost - Actress, Producer, Designer
Sally Williams - Public Art Consultant
Sam Taylor - Editor of The Lady
Sarah Doukas - Founder of Storm
Sarah Shotton - Creative Dir Agent Provocateur
Shami Chakrabarti - Dir Liberty (human rights), Broadcaster
Sir David Hare - Playwright and Screenwriter
Sir Peter Blake - Artist
Sue Crewe - Editor of House & Garden
Susan Daniels OBE - CEO of National Deaf Children’s Society
Susie Cave/Bick - Model, Actress, Designer Synthia Griffin - Curator Tate Modern
Terry and Liz de Havilland - Shoe Designers The Broken Hearts - DJs
Thomasina Miers - Cook, Writer, Presenter Val Gooding CBE - CEO BUPA
Vanessa Branson - Art Patron
Victoria Miro - Gallerist
