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Alice Ellis Bray (b. 1994)
Alice Ellis-Bray is an artist from Lamorna
in Cornwall. She works with self made
costume, painting, performance and
script to explore the infinite possibilities
of identity and experience. Through
learning the properties of nature and the
nature of people, Bray seeks to portray
an interconnectedness she feels with all
things. Painting has assisted her as a tool
to transmute stubborn emotions laying
dormant within, painting the strength
she seeks in the eyes of her paintings,
helping her to find a way through life with
painting as her remedy. With her oeuvre
she has created something of a temple
to mythical women, using arch-shaped
boards tinged with gold in an allusion to
religious iconography, which frame ‘selfie’,
‘alter -ego’, subjects that are either direct
references to well-known figures, looser
notions of the primitive.
Alice Ellis-Bray has exhibited her work
widely, most recently at Tate St Ives.
She has also taught at a number of art
galleries and schools including Newlyn
Art Gallery, Tate St Ives and CAST in
Helston, Cornwall. She was selected as an
‘Artist to Watch’ by Elephant Magazine in
August 2022.
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‘I am the Stone’
oil and 23.5ct gold on board , 44 x 30 cm
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