Alice Browne’s interests lie at the intersection of nature, technology and fantasy. Her practice is predominantly painting-based and expands into site-specific installation, photography, drawing and sculpture. She uses the flattened space of the canvas, paper or wall to explore frictions between the realms of the real and imagined, drawing attention to the fallibility of human senses and the continual rewriting of history. In her paintings, which she describes as a kind of ‘sci-fi still life’, colourful objects and forms wrestle with an exaggerated presence or lack of gravity.
Using symbolic references, she explores thoughts and actions that incorporate hope, luck, wishing and promise which she feels exist in a sticky place where imagination can blur with fact. Her subjects often touch on everyday themes of self-improvement, duality (eg. of above and below, function vs dysfunction) and the use of natural materials for human advancement. The freedom and flexibility of paint allows for the incorporation of a breadth of ideas and influences taken from history, nature and popular culture as well as her immediate surroundings.