Alice Fennessy

Growing up in New Zealand, rivers and oceans formed the backdrop for every memory. Living overseas, I still find myself drawn to the vastness of water and the space it creates for reflection.

Water Poems is a 16 page zine project comprising of a collection of poems about the water that is most precious to me, illustrated with paintings made with the water of each site.

The paintings were created using a single shade of paynes grey watercolour, to allow the organic movement and fluid qualities of the water to be of focus.

Professionally printed on 120 gsm recycled stock.

Mangamaire
2016
pencil and solvent transfer photograph on Arches 180gsm
A4

A work created for my 2016 solo exhibition A Strange Place.

Personal memory fragments colliding and conflating in shifting states of clarity.

Poems About Me/mories
28 pages

This zine of poetry further delves into my fascination with the uncertainty and complexity of memory.

Illustrations were made through a process of marbling with oil, solvent and water. This medium caused unpredictable, complex, infinite possibilities.

Digitally printed on 120 gsm stock.
 

Soft Power
2017
Pencil and watercolour on Arches smooth 120gsm
Float Mounted in recycled timber frame
A3

For Botanica group exhibition, 4 April - 28 April 2017 at in.cube8r Gallery.
Wild and Free, Cut and Dry.

in.cube8r gallery presents Botanica, an exhibition featuring a diverse group of female artists this April.

Botanica explores the way we interact with plants in our modern world. We invite you to celebrate nature in all the forms it reveals to us. From the most sensory experience and moments of deep connection, to those misplaced good intentions. Botanica will take you from green thumb graveyards, to where the wild roses grow and everything that blossoms in-between. Join us as we dust off the dirt and create a new kind of oasis.


 

A poem and illustration for F*EMS Zine Issue 6 exploring the theme of body positivity.

F*EMS Issue 6 explored the theme of the body. I wanted to create a piece that reflected my own path to body love through my work within museums and galleries encountering the beauty of historical artefacts marked by living.

Ink on paper
Available in F*EMS Issue 6.
http://femszine.com/



Issue 6 of FEMS zine was curated, edited and published by Freya Alexander, Tegan Iversen and Cassandra Martin in December 2016.

Cover Art by Kitty Chrystal.

Often There Are Warnings
Fold out A4 Split Mini Zine
8 pages

A poem illustrated with drawings exploring my personal experiences with anxiety attacks.

Risograph printed by Glom Press on pink 80 gsm stock

Arms
2015
pencil on paper
A4

Skies are shifting moments in time, as individual as the people we love most.

Anxiety Rash
2016
594 x 841 mm
Pencil and watercolour on Arches watercolour, float mounted in recycled timber frame

Trying to find strength in the softness of chronicling a hard lived experience.
 

Alice Fennessy
You Came To Visit
Pencil, watercolour on paper
295x387

An oyster shell I picked up as we walked, a photograph of birds we don't have at home.

Sweetness
Winsor & Newton inks on 120gsm Arches
A4
Framed

This work uses drawing to collage disparate imagery from found sources onto a single surface.

 

Soft

Pencil on paper

Digitally coloured

Made for Girls Will Be Girls zine

Weak Willed Night
2016
Pencil and ink on paper
A3

This work was created for my 2016 solo exhibition A Strange Place, held at Brunswick Street Gallery.

This work collides fragments of memories on a fragile surface of throwaway lilac paper, exploring the uncertainty of fading recollections over time.

Digital print on 120 gsm Arches
A4

Alice Fennessy
Cold Sunset
Pencil, solvent transfer photograph on baby pink paper
297x420

A dream or a memory or a creeping feeling that I had been here before.

Daiso Paper
Collection of A5 works
Mixed media
2015

With this collection of mixed media works, I take small fragments from my everyday experiences of the world and collage them, displayed together to form a dream-like floating cloud of disparate images. Some images have been created through painting, others through surface rubbings, printing or photography. All are captured on the pastel, fragile surface of kraft paper.

These works were also used as illustrations alongside poetry for my zine, A Strange Place.

Spring
2014
pencil on baby pink paper
A2 Framed

A drawing of a fever dream.