My work is characterised by lightweight, intricate, wooden structures.
Selecting labour-intensive and repetitive processes, I celebrate the irregularity of the natural material whilst evidencing the hand.
I am currently presenting a collection of steam-bent, carved, and ebonised sculptures in Edinburgh.
Education
Edinburgh College of Art, BA (hons), 2016-2018
Oxford Brookes, Art Foundation, 2015-2016
Awards
Graduate Studio Award, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, 2019-2022
Shortlisted Young Artist Award, Biscuit Factory, Newcastle, 2020
The New Contemporaries Award, Royal Scottish Academy, June 2018
FEUVA Award For Sculpture, June 2018
Residencies
Artist residency with David Nash, Capel Rhiw, Blaenau Ffestiniog, (upcoming 2023)
Selected exhibitions
2022
Walnut Sculptures, St Andrews & St Georges West Church
Alice Dudgeon, Selected Works, Open Eye Gallery
Line Drawings, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
Winnowing in the wind, Upright Gallery, Edinburgh
Artful Craft, MAKE Southwest, Devon
2021
Small Scale, Open Eye Gallery
Surge, Tatha Gallery, Dundee
2020
Small Scale, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
Young Artists Award, Biscuit Factory, Newcastle
2019
New Contemporaries, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
Press
New Blood - The Royal Scottish Academy New Contemporaries, THE SKINNY Magazine, 2019
ECA Art Review, The Scotsman, 2018
Betraying Expectations: ECA Degree Show, THE SKINNY Magazine, 2018;
'In the same room, there’s the work of Alice Dudgeon, which operates in a sculptural language of handcrafted elegance and large scale ambition. The structure itself is a skeletal pine circle of skinny posts that spread out slightly as they go towards the ceiling. In the large room, the light passes through it, its presence not obstructive, instead opening out the space as it draws the eye upward (and across the amazing views of these studios); it’s a quietly uplifting experience.'