About Alice

'Self-Portrait with Koi'
76x53cm​
Framed Oil on Linen

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:   Aarwun Gallery, Canberra
​                                       Dickerson Gallery, Sydney
                                       Rochfort Gallery, Sydney
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Education:
 
        2005            COFA one semester course – Drawing and Painting
        2014            Short Course, Portraiture drawing and painting – Julian Ashton Art
                             School
 
Exhibitions:           
         2024            'The Mind's Eye' Solo Exhibition, Dickerson Gallery, Sydney
         2024            Buddhist and Multicultural art in Australia Symposium, group                                            exhibition, Art Gallery NSW
          2024            'Imagine' solo exhibition, Aarwun Gallery, Canberra
          2024           'July Brilliance' group exhibition, Rochfort Gallery, Sydney
          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:   
               2024          National Contemporary Art Prize - Finalist
               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:
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                  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.