Alice Barker
Alice Barker is a painter whose work explores memory as something unstable, vivid and in flux. A graduate of the University of Edinburgh, BA Hons Painting, 2021, she was selected for RSA New Contemporaries 2023.
Working with collage, thin washes of oil paint and turpentine, Barker builds layered compositions where figures sit within expansive, flattened landscapes. These spaces feel both intimate and unsettled, holding a tension between presence and distance.
Her paintings move between clarity and dissolution, with forms emerging and fading through translucent colour. The work carries a strong sense of scale and psychological charge, where moments feel simultaneously close and unreachable.
Barker’s inclusion in RSA New Contemporaries 2023 confirms the strength of the work and marks her as an artist deserving closer attention at this stage in her career.
