Giclee Print by Alice Oliver
Obscure Fluorescence
Alice Oliver
I am a visual artist working with photography, moving image, and installation, after recently graduated from Swansea College of Art with a 1st Class Honours in Photography in the Arts, I am now completing a Master’s in Photography at the Royal College of Art.
'Common Ground’ focuses on the human's role in relation to their surrounding environment and landscape, reflecting on our sense of place, to tell an underlying narrative of human presence or existence.
The work touches on my own identity whilst dissecting the rural interactions through the study of found artefacts, texts, videos, and sounds from my surroundings. The ongoing work is a methodical investigation and a lyrical exploration into the rural and the duality of the illusions and existence of nature in what is becoming an ever urban world. The work acts as a study into Britain’s drifting and often conflicted relationship with its own landscape, as the pandemic has demonstrated the importance of our relationship to our home and our surroundings.
By making the unseen seen, I expose the intricacies of the unknown investigating the darker side of the British countryside, from traditions, hidden histories to superstitions and rituals, questioning why the rural is often portrayed to exist outside of modernity, searching for some way to express this underlying unsettledness of the postcard countryside dream, in the age of Brexit and the Pandemic, observing the contradictory nature of society’s relationship to the rural.
Giclee Print
37x50cm
Framed