Known and the unknown, comfort and discomfort, familiar and the unfamiliar.

 

Alicia French is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores the uncanniness of everyday life and twists things to rebirth something new: extracting the strangeness and discomfort from the known and unknown surrounding us.

 

Taking inspiration from a multitude of sources, which include nature, the deep sea, phobias (like arachnophobia and trypophobia) , unsolved mysteries, fossils, mushrooms, sprouting potatoes and more.

 

Her practice centers around the mediums of drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, sewing, film, and everyday objects. Recently she has been exploring the medium of film, as it heightens the senses through interactions with the work and objects involved; developing sensory connections for both the artist and the viewer as inanimate objects become animate.

 

Her art practice intends to find out what makes you uncomfortable as we explore the unknown.