'Chocolate Eclair' by Alice Calvert
'Chocolate Eclair'
26 x 21 cm
Monotype in Oil on Awagami Kitakata Green Paper
2024
£350
Bespoke framing available for Greater London collectors only | Framing lead time is 8 weeks from confirmation.
Alice Calvert (b.1999) is a figurative artist and printmaker. She is based in South London, UK, not far from Camberwell College of Art where she graduated with a First class degree in Fine Art Drawing in 2022. She is a self-taught printmaker and often returns to her hometown of Bath to work at Bath Artist Printmakers, a co-operative studio in Larkhall. Calvert's work exists at the intersection of printmaking, painting, and drawing. These disciplines meet in her recent body of work which engages the tactile and expressive process of Monotype printmaking, to create one-of-a-kind prints.
Calvert’s work is process driven, and finds the structure of building up an image layer by layer, a method that invites sponteneity and embraces uncertainty. With every layer, she distances herself from the subject matter, allowing unexpected developments to shape the work and capture a fleeting moment. Her self-portraits in particular mirror this exercise to seperate reality from an idealised outcome. Beauty culture teaches women that our appearances are a measure of our worth. We are asked to analyse and “correct” our appearances via an endless onslaught of billionaire-backed campaigns at every turn. Contemplating her position as a young woman, the self-portraits require similar scrutiny of her appearance to make a likeness, but, more akin to the ‘body neutrality’ movement, the portraits are vehicles to accept rather than ‘correct’ her appearance. Each-and-every mark leaves visible the decision-making of her creative process.
'Chocolate Eclair'
26 x 21 cm
Monotype in Oil on Awagami Kitakata Green Paper
2024
£350
Bespoke framing available for Greater London collectors only | Framing lead time is 8 weeks from confirmation.
Alice Calvert (b.1999) is a figurative artist and printmaker. She is based in South London, UK, not far from Camberwell College of Art where she graduated with a First class degree in Fine Art Drawing in 2022. She is a self-taught printmaker and often returns to her hometown of Bath to work at Bath Artist Printmakers, a co-operative studio in Larkhall. Calvert's work exists at the intersection of printmaking, painting, and drawing. These disciplines meet in her recent body of work which engages the tactile and expressive process of Monotype printmaking, to create one-of-a-kind prints.
Calvert’s work is process driven, and finds the structure of building up an image layer by layer, a method that invites sponteneity and embraces uncertainty. With every layer, she distances herself from the subject matter, allowing unexpected developments to shape the work and capture a fleeting moment. Her self-portraits in particular mirror this exercise to seperate reality from an idealised outcome. Beauty culture teaches women that our appearances are a measure of our worth. We are asked to analyse and “correct” our appearances via an endless onslaught of billionaire-backed campaigns at every turn. Contemplating her position as a young woman, the self-portraits require similar scrutiny of her appearance to make a likeness, but, more akin to the ‘body neutrality’ movement, the portraits are vehicles to accept rather than ‘correct’ her appearance. Each-and-every mark leaves visible the decision-making of her creative process.
'Chocolate Eclair'
26 x 21 cm
Monotype in Oil on Awagami Kitakata Green Paper
2024
£350
Bespoke framing available for Greater London collectors only | Framing lead time is 8 weeks from confirmation.
Alice Calvert (b.1999) is a figurative artist and printmaker. She is based in South London, UK, not far from Camberwell College of Art where she graduated with a First class degree in Fine Art Drawing in 2022. She is a self-taught printmaker and often returns to her hometown of Bath to work at Bath Artist Printmakers, a co-operative studio in Larkhall. Calvert's work exists at the intersection of printmaking, painting, and drawing. These disciplines meet in her recent body of work which engages the tactile and expressive process of Monotype printmaking, to create one-of-a-kind prints.
Calvert’s work is process driven, and finds the structure of building up an image layer by layer, a method that invites sponteneity and embraces uncertainty. With every layer, she distances herself from the subject matter, allowing unexpected developments to shape the work and capture a fleeting moment. Her self-portraits in particular mirror this exercise to seperate reality from an idealised outcome. Beauty culture teaches women that our appearances are a measure of our worth. We are asked to analyse and “correct” our appearances via an endless onslaught of billionaire-backed campaigns at every turn. Contemplating her position as a young woman, the self-portraits require similar scrutiny of her appearance to make a likeness, but, more akin to the ‘body neutrality’ movement, the portraits are vehicles to accept rather than ‘correct’ her appearance. Each-and-every mark leaves visible the decision-making of her creative process.