ALICE SIELLE
Alice Sielle
Born and lives in London
One Sunday lunchtime when I was 9 years old, my mother asked my uncle how long he was going to paint abstract for. After lunch I went upstairs to my oil paints in the attic to see if I could paint an abstract, and discovered I couldn’t. Ever since then I have been concerned with the formalities of picture making – balance, line, colour, tone, space, proportion and so on.
I started painting full time in 1973 as an abstract painter, but now also do figurative work when the subject demands no ambiguity.
Amongst the many painters who have influenced me are Barnet Newman, Duccio, Piero della Francesca, Ben Nicholson, my uncle, William Scott and John Craxton.
© Tom Hains
Exhibitions
One Man Shows
1974 Selwood Gallery, Frome
1978 Cricklade College, Andover
1980 General Trading company, London
1981 Lowes Court Gallery, Egremont
1982 Carlisle Museum and Art Gallery
1983 Abbot’s Hall Gallery, Kendal
1985 Mildred’s Wine Bar, London
1986 St. Paul’s School, London
1989 Half Moon Theatre, London
Thumb Gallery, London
1992 Austin/Desmond Gallery, London
1994 Dead Horse I & Dead Horse II
1995 Wodka Restaurant, London
Lying Knave, Tredegar Square
1996 Lying Knave II, Tredegar Square
Dancing Sacrifice, Tredegar Square
1997 Wodka Restaurant, London Exhibition for Shelter, Tredegar Square
1997 The Divine Couple, Tredegar Square
1998 Dog show, Tredegar Square
Hidden Art, Tredegar Square
2001 Suddenly Figurative, Tredegar Square
2002 Stan, 13 monotypes at Baltic Restaurant, London
2003 The Camouflage Stiletto, Tredegar Square
2004 The Stations of the Cross, Globe Centre, London
2005 The Stations of the Cross, St. Matthew’s Church, Westminster
2005 Sex at a Price, 93 Gallery, London
2006 Nicholson /Sielle , Tredegar Square
2007 175 Small Blue Drawings, Tredegar Square
2008 Flying Angels, Tredegar Square
2008 Flying Angels, SE1 Gallery, London
2009 The Big Bang and All That, Tredegar Square
2010 Six Ravens and a Website, Tredegar Square
2012 Works on Paper, Tredegar Square
2013 Whist I'm Alive, Tredegar Sqaure
2013 Snake, The Garden of Eden, NSHarts
2014 Manush NSHarts
2015 Nazrul/Blake Manush II NSHarts
2015 Sea Monster, Tredegar Square
2015 Brick Lane monotypes, Altab Ali. Kobi Nazrul Centre
2016 Vrindavani Vastra, new lino prints, Tredegar Square
2017 Platinus x acerifolia, the London plane tree, Brady Arts Centre
2019-2020 Exhibitons of the portrait project , Tredegar Square
2021 One Creation Climate Crisis Concert
2021 30 Variations on a Theme
2021 Stations of the Cross Book Launch
2022 The Plane Papers Book
2023 The Framer's Daughter Workshop 353
2023 Photosynthesis
2023 Timeline: 50 Years of Exhibiting
Mixed Shows
1973 Westward TV Open Art Exhibition
1974 Pictures For Schools , National Museum of
Wales, Cardiff
1977 Tolly Cobbold Eastern Arts
1978 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
1981 Creative Cumbrian, Whitehaven Museum
1983 Thumb Gallery, London
1984 Austin/Desmond Fine Art, Ascot
1st International Contemporary Art Fair, London
1987 First Showings, Thumb Gallery, London
1998 Hidden Art
1999 Painting by Numbers, Brunel University
2002 Animals, North house Gallery, Manningtree
2005 Turn-up Prize, St. Paul’s Gallery, Bow
2006 In Colour, 93 Gallery, London
2007 Art Pavilion Summer Show, Mile End Park
2008 Flying Angels Film, North Norfolk Music Festival, South Creake
2010 Christmas Show, North House Gallery
2012 10x10 Drawing The City London
2012 The Piper Gallery New Possibilities: paintings from the Seventies
2013 10x10 Drawing The City London
2016 Altab Ali at the Brady Centre, London E1
2016 Aviary at Transitions Gallery London E8
2017 One Creation, first performance. St. Marylebone Parish Church 26.7.18
2018 Hope not Hate, Brady Arts Centre 4-29 May
2018 Naked:War 11.4.18-11.5.18 NSHarts
2019 The Ruth Borchard Self Portrait exhibition
Awards
Southern Arts
Northern Arts
V&A Purchase Grant for Abbot Hall, Kendal
Collections
Medical Research Unit, Harrow
Homerton Hospital, Hackney
Cardiff University Faculty of Science and Technology
St. Barnabas Church, Bethnal Green
Commissions
The Stations of the Cross for St.Barnabas Church, Bethnal Green, London
Books
What's the price of a poem? 2020
Stations of the Cross 2021
The Plane Papers 2022
Videos
A plane tree grows up in lockdown 2021
What’s the price of a poem? 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqTrVNZKiOs
Garden Museum video 2020
https://vimeo.com/519593622?mc_cid=c450579644&mc_eid=1a5c7303c6
Self portrait video 2019