About Alice
Alice was born in Tokyo, Japan and grew up in both Tokyo and Kyoto with her two younger sisters, also artists, and her older brother. She was educated in Japanese schools until she moved to Sydney in 2000 and is bilingual and bicultural in Japanese and English. Alice began drawing and painting from an early age. When Alice was 15, she travelled to Paris, and the art she saw there made a strong and lasting impression on her. This experience and her other travels have influenced her development as an artist. Alice has studied life-drawing and has taken courses at the Julian Ashton Art School and at College of Fine Art in Sydney.
Alice exhibits her paintings regularly and has been a finalist in numerous art prizes including the Portia Geach Art Prize, the Mosman Art Prize, the Kilgour Prize, the Ravenswood Art Prize and the National Capital Art Prize. Alice has been a semi-finalist six times in the national Doug Moran Portraiture and in the prestigious BP Portraiture Prize in London.
Alice has also had the opportunity to spend some time Paris, as well as travelling in Germany, the UK, China and Singapore. The art Alice saw on her travels has melded into her painting imagination, which is filled with images of air, water, animal and plant life. She recreates the strange relationships between the way we as humans experience our world and the forces of the universe acting upon our sense of reality. In Alice’s work, elements of naturalism, such as birds, fish, cattle and cats, appear in two-dimensional schematic landscapes. These are reminiscent of the way Japanese art flattens and arranges landscapes. Water birds appear frequently in her paintings. Alice has a fascination with these special birds, which can swim under the water, float on the water, walk on the land and fly in the air. In this way they transcend the forces of nature that confine many other living things, including ourselves.
Alice Pulvers Curriculum Vita
Alice Pulvers
(b. 1984 Japan)
Affiliated Galleries: Live in Art Sydney Gallery
Aarwun Gallery, Canberra
Audrey Fine Art Gallery, Sydney
Rochfort Gallery, Sydney
Education:
2005 COFA one semester course – Drawing and Painting
2014 Short Course, Portraiture drawing and painting – Julian Ashton Art
School
Exhibitions:
2023 Portia Geach Art Prize - finalist exhibition-S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2023 'Through a Looking Glass' solo exhibition - Audrey Fine Art, Sydney
2023 'Luminescence' solo exhibition - Aarwun Gallery, Canberra
2023 'May Flowers Inspire Joy' group exhibition - Princes Art Gallery,
Sydney
2022 - 2023 'The Tapestry of Me' group exhibition - Rochfort Gallery, Sydney
2022 Solo exhibition - M.C.&Shelly Gallery, Mosman
2022 Mosman Art Prize - Finalist Exhibition, Sydney
2022 'Shikisai' - Audrey Fine Art, Sydney
2022 'Sisters' exhibition - Aarwun Gallery, Canberra
2022 International Woman's Day Group Exhibit - Sutton Village Gallery
2021 'A Glassy Affair' December exhibition - Audrey Fine Art Gallery
2021 Kilgour Prize - Finalist exhibition
2021 Camberwell Art Show - online finalist exhibition
2021 'The Vincent' Prize Finalist exhibition - DuckRabbit Gallery, Redfern
2021 'Three Sisters' Exhibition - Live in Art Sydney Gallery,
InterContinental Hotel, Double Bay
2020 Live in Art Sydney Art Prize - finalist exhibition, Live in Art Sydney,
InterContinental Hotel Double Bay
2020 Live in Art Sydney Art Prize - finalist exhibition, Live in Art Sydney
Gallery, Surrey Hills
2018 Portia Geach Portraiture Prize -finalist exhibition
2018 Mosman Art Prize -finalist exhibition
2017 'Pulvers Art' Exhibition at Willoughby Town Council Foyer,
Chatswood
2017 Hunters Hill Art Prize –finalist exhibition
2017 'Pulvers Art' Exhibition at Art Space Concourse, Chatswood
2016 Pymble Ladies College Centenary Exhibition
2016 Hunters Hill Art Prize –finalist exhibition
2016 Sydney Royal Easter Show – Three Sisters Group Exhibit, Cattle
Pavilion
2015 ‘Three Sisters’ Group exhibition, Landship Gallery, Georges
Heights,
Sydney
2015 Hunters Hill Art Prize –finalist exhibition
2015 Sydney Royal Easter Show – Three Sisters Group Exhibit, Cattle
Pavilion
2014 Mandorla Art Prize – finalist exhibiton, WA
2013 Three Sisters Art Exhibit at Concourse Art Space, Chatswood,
Sydney
2013 Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Prize – finalist exhibition, Lane
Cove Gallery, Sydney
2013 SKA Art Prize - finalist exhibition, Federation Square, Melbourne
2012 Cowra Japanese Peace Garden Gallery exhibition – month of
September
2011-12 Wahroonga Preparatory School Art Exhibition
2010 Pymble Art Gallery Artist on exhibition
2007-8 Michael Commerford Blue Door Gallery-Artist on exhibition
2007 Milk Factory Gallery, Bowral-Artist on Exhibition
Award and Prizes:
2023 Portia Geach Art Prize - finalist
2023 National Capital Art Prize - finalist
2023 Naked&Nude Art Prize - finalist
2022 Moran Art Prize - Semi-finalist
2022 BlueThumb Prize Finalist - Portraiture Category
2022 Mosman Art Prize - Finalist
2021. Luxembourg Art Prize - Certificate of Merit
2021 National Capital Art Prize - Finalist
2021. Camberwell Art Show - Finalist
2021. Kilgour Prize - Finalist
2020 Ravenswood Art Prize - finalist
2020 Live in Art Sydney Art Prize - finalist, Live in Art Sydney Gallery,
Surrey Hills
2018 Portia Geach Portraiture Prize -finalist
2018 Doug Moran Portrait Prize Semi-finalist
2018 Mosman Art Prize -finalist
2017 Hunters Hill Art Prize –finalist
2016 Doug Moran Portrait Prize Semi-finalist
2016 Hunters Hill Art Prize –finalist
2015 Doug Moran Portrait Prize Semi-finalist
2015 Hunters Hill Art Prize –finalist
2014 Doug Moran Portrait Prize Semi-finalist
2014 Mandorla Art Prize - finalist
2014 Lethbridge Small Works – finalist
2013 Doug Moran Portrait Prize Semi-finalist
2013 Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Prize, finalist
2013 SKA Art Prize – finalist and ‘Director’s Choice’ Federation Square, Melbourne
Commissions and Texts:
2020 Balestire Press - Cover Art 'Wholly Esenin' Roger Pulvers
2012-13 Phasminda Publishing - Online publication of illustrated
books; Three Sisters and the Train, I Love my Pets, I Love my
Garden, Maximus Moose’s
Marvelous Morning, The Frandon Agricultural School Pig, The
Honey and the Fires
2010-2016 Numerous commissions for portraits and animal paintings
2009 Commissioned portrait - John Bell, Actor and Director of Bell
Shakespeare
Company
2006-13 Illustration of books for major Japanese publishers such as
Iwanami Shoten
and Shueisha, as well as for the popular daily, The Japan Times,
and, in Australia, for ABC Books.
