ALICE DOLLING is an Australian visual artist currently based in Lisbon. She has been exhibiting in solo and group shows since 2008. After completing a bachelor of visual communication (illustration) Alice taught fundamental visual arts topics at Flinders University (South Australia) for five years. Her brash and uncompromising style is recognizable across multiple media and is informed by irreverence and absurdity. 

Automated & Sugar Free | Alice's multidisciplinary work embodies an attraction/repulsion dynamic that aims to undermine representations of body, beauty and gender in social media and popular culture.

During her reisdency at Zaratan, Alice has developed a new series of painting, drawing and collage that play with an obsessive representation of the female figure.

For contemporary artists, drawing is often a process more than a medium, and this is the case of Alice, who is examining here the idea of being ‘machine-like’ and its impact on the practice of making art, by using her left hand to draw and repeatedly reproducing a same subject.
In an oscillation between artificiality and authenticity, a personality emerges to bother the status quo, disturbing the male gaze, and questioning the sexual identity.