Alice Chandler (b.1993, Leeds) is an artist and researcher currently living and working in Leeds, UK.
Alice Chandler (b.1993, Leeds) is an artist and researcher currently living and working in Leeds, UK.
Chandler’s practice is informed by the intersection between art, craft and design. By learning about and utilising various craft processes, she creates series of works that build narrative and interrogate our relationship with the domestic and wearable. Dependent on display and context, her work can be at once sculptural, functional, or decorative. Chandler is interested in object and material networks that contain layered histories, etymologies, narratives, myths, and meaning. She often draws from the material culture and history of her hometown of Leeds. Exploring patchwork as method; she considers what happens when you put things in dialogue, and how they begin to juxtapose, interconnect or form relationships. As a maker, she starts to raise questions around value, production, retail and display.
Her PhD research is currently exploring artist networks in Yorkshire in partnership with YVAN.
Education
Current: WRoCAH funded PhD at University of Leeds School of Performance and Cultural Industries in partnership with Yorkshire Visual Arts Network (YVAN)
University of Leeds 2019 - 2021 MA Art Gallery and Museum Studies (FAHACS)
University of Edinburgh 2012-2015 - BA(hons) Sculpture
Leeds College of Art - Foundation Diploma in Fine Art
Employment
2015-2021: Arts programming and marketing at Sunny Bank Mills
Upcoming
2021/22, Unreal Estates, curated by Amanda Lwin, collaboration with writer Wes Foster, Leeds
Residencies/Awards
2020 Shortlisted Artist. Selected for Leeds Summer Group Show (Online)
2020 Selected for Yorkshire Sculpture International Sculpture Network
2018/19 Selected for Tetley's Artist Associate Programme (TAAP)
2018 Selected for a-n mentoring bursary
2017 Shortlisted for Jerwood 3Phase
2015 Assembly House Graduate Residency, Leeds
Curatorial
2021 Material Matters, Sunny Bank Mills Gallery, Leeds
Solo Exhibitions
2021 Privet, Threshold Sculpture, Leeds
2019 July 3rd - 10th, TAAP Showcase, The Tetley, Leeds
2017 Lick and a promise, The Trophy Room, Royal Standard, Liverpool
2017 Floordrobe, Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun, Leeds
Selected Group Shows/Projects
2020 In Situ, 30 Broughton Street, Edinburgh, curated by Eleanor McCullough
and Oisin Gallagher
2020 Leeds Summer Group Show (online)
2020 The Potion Room, Subsidiary Projects, London
2020 Artifact, Sunny Bank Mills, Leeds
2019 Ebc022 Sitting Show, East Bristol Contemporary
2018 Swan Song Contribution to online project
2018 Encountering Objects, Encountering Place, Duo show with David Haslam, Assembly House, Leeds
2018 Mantel @ Copperfield, London - curated by Doug Bowen/Cactus
2017 Hybrid Art Fair, Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun, Madrid
2016 Bankley Studios Open Call, Manchester
2016 HIX Prize 2016, Unit London
2016 Home and Away, Cass Art Space, Glasgow
2016 Prod + Push, Sunny Bank Mills, Leeds
2016 General Studies, Gildengate House, Outpost, Norwich
2016 TH4Y, GeneratorProjects, Dundee
2016 Ones We Watched, Sunny Bank Mills, Leeds
2016 RSA New Contemporaries, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2016 The Follies of Youth, The Brunswick, Leeds
2015 Ex at blip,blip,blip, East Street Arts, Leeds
2015 Keeping up with the Joneses, Assembly House, Leeds
2015 The Skinny Showcase, Hill Street Design House, Edinburgh
2015 Entente, Hotel Elephant, London
2015 Subject to Change, Space Club, Edinburgh
2014 Interim, blip, blip, blip, Leeds
