Alice Anderson

Alice Anderson
Born	1972 London, England
Nationality	British, French
Education	Goldsmiths, University of London, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts
Known for	Sculpture, Performance, Film

Alice Anderson (born 1972) is a French-British artist who studied Fine Art at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and Goldsmiths College, London. She currently lives and works in London. Anderson works primarily with copper-coloured wire associated with the Postdigital movement.

Alice Anderson's process-driven practice is an exploration of memory in the context of the digital world via COR-TEN steel and thread sculptures, drawings and performances. Through the transformation of virtual data into tactile forms, Anderson creates a new physical relationship with objects and spaces through ritual performance.

Anderson's practice began primarily with video. In 2011, this took a new direction following her personal exhibition at the Freud Museum in London, where she worked on Anna Freud's loom and initiated geometrical works of lines and grids. This is also when Anderson began to use copper-coloured wire in her studio. ‘I took objects apart and put them back together again, and during one of these dismantling sessions I came across an alarm clock with a bobbin of copper wire inside it’.

Anderson began to memorise objects from her London studio with copper-coloured wire. On her relationships to objects, Anderson says, "I always worry about breaking or losing an object, therefore I have established rules: When one of the object around me is likely to become obsolete or is lost in the stream of our lives, I memorise it with wire before it happens. If an object breaks, I encapsulate it in steel, I leave it outside for few weeks until it rusts, then I perform a ritual and when the dance is over, everything is repaired. The broken relation is healed".

Desiring to encourage collective discussions and human exchanges, Anderson invited people to join in her actions, expressing art as a powerfully charged communal ritual. This experience was going to initiate the basis of her new practice aiming to memorise objects and keep physical DATA.

In 2015 she exhibited her objects '[1]' in copper wire at the Wellcome Collection in London. Jonathan Jones of The Guardian described the work as "glutinous in the memory. The reason it works is because she takes the whole thing so stupendously seriously. This is passionate, obsessive, intensely concentrated work." Visitors were asked to help the artist record a Ford Mustang in wire through a collective sculpture. Anderson also uses rough material such as recycled steel and works with metallic meshes to create sculptures from repetitive gestures

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