Alice McMurrough PAI RGI RSW
Alice was born in Glasgow, where she attended the Glasgow School of Art before undertaking teacher training. She worked as a teacher from 1979 to 2007, during which time she married Neil Macdonald, with whom she has two sons, and in her own words spent time 'loving and living in Scotland'. In 2007 she left teaching to paint full time. She has received multiple awards for her work, including the James Torrance Memorial Award in 2011 and the Dalrymple Award at the inaugural Maclaurin Annual Fine Art Exhibition in 2011.
Alice says of her work: "In my artwork, I create connections. I intertwine memories of personal events with contemporary issues, family legends, cultural myths and religious fables. I use distortion, metaphor and symbolism, in a context free from chronological time and precise place. I aim for an attention that children have for the world, before ritual and maturity strips life of its daily magic."
The right-hand work below will be for sale at the exhibition as a limited-edition, high-quality giclée print on acid free, museum grade paper. It depicts a calm Caledonia who has thrown down her gauntlet and awaits the response from the 'Mad Hatter'.
Alice says of her work: "In my artwork, I create connections. I intertwine memories of personal events with contemporary issues, family legends, cultural myths and religious fables. I use distortion, metaphor and symbolism, in a context free from chronological time and precise place. I aim for an attention that children have for the world, before ritual and maturity strips life of its daily magic."
The right-hand work below will be for sale at the exhibition as a limited-edition, high-quality giclée print on acid free, museum grade paper. It depicts a calm Caledonia who has thrown down her gauntlet and awaits the response from the 'Mad Hatter'.