Alice Anna Ford

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Biography

Alice Anna Ford is an interdisciplinary artist born in 1997 in Boorloo, Perth, currently residing and working in Australia's South West on Whadjuk and Wadandi Boodja. Working across drawing, painting, architecture, publishing, film and installation, Ford positions her artworks as value-recalibrating machines that reconnect the human to the more-than-human. Using contemporary mechanical language, she employs drawn blueprints and written instructions, manuals and codices to curate each work's encounter. Bound by strategies of defamiliarization, or strange making, her projects evoke other-worldly environments operating across multiple scales; compelling, surreal, gently comedic, ecologically disturbing. Vibrant colour, distorted focus, absurd scale and sharp detail move throughout spatially curated portals, with sequences connected by movement featuring prominently across her work.

Solo Exhibitions

2026
The Pigment Pictures
The first major solo show by Ford launches her solo debut publication, an artist-run press and her first architectural work as part of the Margaret River Regions Open Studios.

Group Exhibitions

2023
Forest Atlas Launch
Published by WA Forest Alliance, The Forest Atlas book was launched at the Moores Building, Walyalup.

2022
The Yoke
The Yoke was developed through an extended reading of The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka, undertaken alongside fieldwork across multiple farms in Japan.

2022
The Unthing machine
The Unthing Machine was developed following a month-long residency at Studio Kura in Itoshima, Japan. The exhibition operated as an interactive studio environment.

Awards

2024
Reimagining Where We Live
As part Super Natural environmental design team with LM2A Architects, Alice contributed to Scales of Care, awarded First Place (Urban Metro Category).

2022
EG Cohen Medal
This award remains in place today as the EG Cohen Medal and is managed by his architect grandson Philip Gresley with support from the AIA.

2019
Fremantle Young Citizen of the Year
Alice was named Fremantle's Young Citizen of the Year for 2019 (announced in January 2020) for her contributions to local public art and youth art education.

Collections

The Pigment Pictures

Publications

2026
The Pigment Pictures
A manual for soul re-ignition, the Pigment Pictures is the first publication by Alice Anna Ford overpaintings, draiwngs, collage and typewritten text.

Residencies

2022
Arts Itoya
Arts Itoya is an artist in residence program in Takeo, Saga Prefecture, Japan.

2022
Studio Kura
Studio Kura’s Artist in Residence Program is a chance for artists to experience and draw inspiration from Japan’s rural environment and Studio Kura’s thriving local community.

2021
Donnelly River Taking Shape
Taking Shape is an annual artist residency designed to nurture and support emerging career artists in supported by Early Work Gallery.

Alice Anna Ford
Design, Drawing, Performance art

Artist Statement

Alice Anna Ford is an interdisciplinary artist working across drawing, painting, publishing, film, and installation. Her practice explores how artworks can act as value-recalibrating machines.