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Alice Lang
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Little Ghost (2008)
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Born in Byron Bay in 1983, Alice Lang is an Australian artist currently based in Brisbane. In 2004, Lang completed her Honours in Visual Arts at Queensland University of Technology and was awarded the Queensland Art Gallery Hobday and Hingston Bursary. Her work was included in Fresh Cut at the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane and she was artist in residence at Metro Arts, Brisbane in 2005. She was artist in residence at the Klondike Institute for Art and Culture in Dawson City, Canada and was announced winner of the pictures category of the Qantas Spirit of Youth Awards in 2006. Lang completed a 2-month residency at the Art Students League of New York in Sparkill, New York in 2008 and was recently awarded the Queensland Art Gallery Melville Haysom Scholarship. Alice was also recently announced as one of 10 artists selected to participate in the “Splendid” program in association with the Splendour in the Grass festival.
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What we left behind l (2009)
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Ossein Pod (white) (2009)
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Osseois Collar and Sterniobiosis Portrait (2008)
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Decoy 2 (2007)
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My practice investigates possibilities for sewn sculpture to explore and complicate the relationships between concepts of the decorative and the grotesque. My work is materially driven and usually involves an obsessive compulsive process of making hundreds of individually stuffed fabric forms and then sewing them together in an intuitive manner that allows the work to grow organically. The resulting sculpture is a hybrid object/organism whose final form references both foreign and familiar bodily elements to create tension between the familiar and the unknown and explore notions of the abject. It is this tension between form and formlessness, and allure and repulsion that is central to my practice.
Recent work uses a sewing technique influenced by cut-work embroidery in which puckered holes are sewn into fabric. This use of negative space and bone/flesh coloured fabric such as calico makes reference to varying bone-like forms such as coral as well as the inside structure of bone itself. Exploring the idea of bone as something soft, malleable and organic as well as strong and protective. This reversal of hard and soft textures creates tension within the familiar duality of flesh and bone, blurring the boundary between the two to navigate a space that exists in-between, oscillating between the physical and the metaphysical.
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between the two to navigate a space that exists in-between, oscillating between the physical and the metaphysical.
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What we left behind ll (2009)
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Alice Lang
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Australia
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