Design and Art Australia Online

Alice Lang’s work unfolds from various points of mixed-media by alternating disciplines that encompass painting, drawing, and craft-form objects. These works underlie key surfacing themes in her practice on toward an emotional encounter with materiality, the historical & current roles of feminism, and in recent works the tension of identity constructs and fragmentation between our virtual and physical selves. The material expression of her art-objects also have an aesthetic relation, ongoing tension, that can somehow signify itself between form and formlessness, allure and repulsion, the known and the unknown. Those signature crafted forms are able to tease the relationship between the decorative and the grotesque, previously she has experimented using techniques such as macramé and other fibre crafts throughout her oeuvre. Lang seemingly represents an alternate contemporary populist range of craft materials such as puff paints, and bright fluorescent thread.

She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours (Visual Arts) First Class from Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia (2004).

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Date written:

2014

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2014