Alice Tilley is an emerging visual artist that lives and works at her studio on a cropping and sheep farm in South Australia. It is Alice’s intention through her paintings and artistic process to embrace and document being present in the simple and ordinary moments of daily life.
Alice’s art practice is largely informed by direct observations and experiences including her garden, rural landscape, and family’s role as farmers and land custodians. Predominately a figurative landscape and still life oil painter, Alice’s paintings are characterised by an expressive play between light and colour, with lively brush strokes and marks translating into her unique, richly layered style.
Upon receiving a scholarship for outstanding secondary students at Adelaide Central School of Art Alice attended and completed a Certificate IV in Visual Art in 2000. Painting sporadically as she explored other creative outlets and career options, it was not until 2015 as a new stay-at-home Mum that Alice reignited her interest and a subsequent career as a painter. Currently practising full-time at her studio on a farm near Kapunda, South Australia, Alice is represented by galleries in SA and QLD, and regularly exhibits in group and solo exhibitions.
AWARDS & EXHIBITIONS
2024
Bowerbird group exhibition, Bowerbird Markets
2023
Summer Exhibition (Best in Exhibition Award), Kapunda Gallery
The Nature of Things group exhibition, Wonderground Barossa Gallery
Mid North Seasons & Landscapes group exhibition, Coorong Gallery
Loreto SpringART exhibition, Loreto College
Art on Terrace SALA group exhibition, Terrace Floors + Furnishing
Posy SALA group exhibition, Flowers Everywhere
Grounded, Yorke Peninsula Art Festival
The Affordable Art Fair Sydney, The Toowoomba Gallery
Bowerbird group exhibition, Bowerbird Markets
Barossa Vintage Art Prize, Barossa Regional Gallery
The Grammar Art Show, Toowoomba Grammar School
Feed the Soul group exhibition, New England Regional Art Gallery
2022
Small Wonders group exhibition, Wonderground Barossa Gallery
Places of Eight group exhibition, Burra Regional Art Gallery
5th Birthday Group Exhibition, Sydney Road Gallery
Finding Place solo exhibition, 2B Nourished
Inside This Box group exhibition, The Corner Store Gallery
The Grammar Art Show, Toowoomba Grammar School
2021
Merit Certificate, Kapunda Rotary Art Show
Land & Sky SALA solo exhibition, 2B Nourished
Barossa vintage art prize, Barossa Regional Gallery
100 Barossa Artists exhibition
2020
Wanderlust art festival exhibition, Hygge Home and Vintage
2019
Kidman art show, Rotary Club of Kapunda
Loreto SpringART exhibition, Loreto College
Petrichor Barossa vintage art prize, Barossa Regional Gallery
Clare rotary art prize, Clare
2018
Best in Exhibition, Summer Exhibition, Kapunda Community Gallery
Traditional Winner, Art of the flower and garden, Burra Regional Art Gallery
2000
Scholarship for outstanding secondary students, Adelaide Central School of Art
1999
Certificate of Merit for Visual Art Studies (SACE), Loreto College