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艾丽斯·古尔·阿里
Writer and self taught artist who takes photographs around the world and repaints them into limited edition, fine art images. Inspired by the natural world, landscapes, seascapes, nature and wildlife dominate my portfolio, ranging in style from soft, textured tones to bold, saturated abstracts.
关于
我的职业生涯始于广告行业，担任概念文案撰稿人和平面设计师。最终，我转向客户端，负责国际品牌的营销策略和传播方向的制定、制定和实施。11年前，我回归了创作的本源。
我的全职创作专注于摄影与绘画交汇的“最佳点”。我邀请观者用镜头取代他们观察世界的窗口，将视觉体验诠释为既熟悉又陌生的事物。受自然界的启发，我的作品集以风景、海景和野生动物为主，风格多样，从大胆饱和的抽象画到柔和的纹理色调，应有尽有。
In the creative process for developing my interpretive works, I treat my photograph as the canvas. The photographs, taken around the world, are repainted by hand with a “brush” digitally, using washes to create layers, and blowing up the image to paint pixel by pixel as detail requires. Importantly, my work is not about digital manipulation (I do NOT use Photoshop) but about re-imagining experience.
My solo exhibitions include the Embassy of Iceland and the Coningsby Gallery in London.
Recognition highlights: ArtGemini Prize (shortlisted); LensCulture Art Photography Award Gallery (featured); Aesthetica Art Prize (long listed); The Secret Art Prize (long listed); Terry O'Neill Photography Award (2 series nominated); Bridgeman Images Studio Award (shortlisted); Christie’s London (2 works auctioned); Royal Ontario Museum (winner, national design competition to promote the Smithsonian’s Travelling Exhibition, “The Precious Legacy”.)
I recently published a two book project inspired by the ancient Chinese world view of the universe. Twelve: Shengxiao Zodiac Creatures in Art and Words offers 32 hand painted photographs and twelve short stories relating to each of the Chinese "year of" zodiac animals. Twelve can be found here https://issuu.com/agurarie/docs/twelve. The companion book Five: Wuxing Elements in Art and Words, features 81 landscapes, seascapes, cityscapes and abstracts aligned with the five wuxing themes: wood, fire, earth, metal and water. Five can be found here https://issuu.com/agurarie/docs/five. Available only digitally, both books are free to browse. Forwards by Asian art scholar John E. Vollmer.
我的照片出现在书籍封面上，并被英国、美国、加拿大、德国、瑞士和以色列的私人收藏。
I hold degrees in Education, English literature and Business, but I am a self taught artist.
I am a past Trustee of Gasworks Dock Partnership, a registered charity and social enterprise formed to act as a vehicle for the community led regeneration of Cody Dock and the local waterways of the Lower Lea River. In this role I had lead responsibility for strategic communications and the development of an arts and creative industries community at Cody Dock.
CONTACT
电子邮件 - alice@alicegur-arie.com网站 - www.alicegur-arie.com Instagram - @alicegur_arie
ONLINE GALLERY
(Please note all images are shown in square format. Therefore some areas of the artwork have been cropped.)
All works in the Gallery are for sale. Please contact Alice directly for more information or to discuss a commission.
您会如何向初次看到作品的人描述它？我想说我的作品引人入胜、独具特色、与众不同、发人深省——是“关于”而不是“关于”的。但是，用颜色、大小、形状、图案和纹理来描述我看到的东西，与表达我对一幅图像的理解截然不同。因此，我更倾向于询问观者在观看作品时看到了什么。我的艺术具有阐释性，因此了解人们对作品的反应，以及他们在情感和理智上对此有何反应（或无反应）至关重要。他们看到了什么，他们对作品有何看法，以及作品带给他们怎样的感受。通常，观者看到的东西与我的意图或追求截然不同（尤其是在抽象作品中）。我不认为这是一个缺点——看待任何艺术作品都没有唯一正确的方式来进行，因为艺术是个体的、个人的。什么艺术家以及哪些艺术家影响了您的作品？以下艺术家让我对艺术创作的各个方面大开眼界，但这个问题的答案是开放式的，随着我自己的艺术发展而不断发展。
- 埃贡·席勒，因其能用一行字就能唱出欢乐的歌声
- Frederick Remington, for his mastery of balance
- Cindy Sherman, for her unrelenting exploration of reinvention
- Henry Moore, for his matchless ability to make me look his pieces from all sides and angles, and see what is not there (as well as what is)
- Georgia O’Keefe, for her ability to compel a sense of destination
- 爱德华·霍普，他激发了我对夜晚世界的热爱
- Alex Colville, for his ability to convey urgency in a frozen moment in time
- 亨利·卡蒂埃-布列松，他教会了我们如何“看”
Two of the key influences that shaped my outlook and interests, and awakened my imagination at a very young age, were
- the National Geographic, whose children’s version of their publication ignited the lifelong passion to explore the natural world and engage with the creatures that inhabit it, and,
- Jacques Cousteau, who introduced me to the concept of “other worlds”
If you could collaborate with any artist past or present, who would you select and why?
Bruce Springsteen. I can imagine creating a book of b/w (straight) photographic images of the people and places in the America he imagined and brought to life in his songbook.
What can we expect to see from you in the future?
I have just finished the first of a two part project that combines approximately 50 works of my interpretive art and 12 of my short stories, based on the conceptual scheme of the Chinese zodiac. The second part, containing 6 poems, 5 short stories and approximately 35 interpretive artworks, will be completed by the end of the year.
我最喜欢的五件艺术品
1 - Mascot (UK)
2 - Fallen Leaves (France)
3 - Noon at Beach Point (France)
4. 天使与天使报喜（以色列）
5 - Ruby Sky (Portugal)
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