About
 

I am an artist from Te Papaioea, Aotearoa. I use drawing and painting to convey themes such as memory, domestic life and interior worlds. My work is currently intertwined with motherhood as I raise my two young children. I find myself endlessly fascinated by the juxtapositions or dualities thrown up by pregnancy and motherhood, how these experiences can be simultaneously beautiful and ugly, ordinary and other, tender and excruciating. My work explores these spaces through materials and compositions; disparate images from fleeting moments drawn together in stark tones on surfaces such as paper, silk or aluminium. My work aims to be sensitive and vulnerable, casting light on experiences of life often disregarded. I studied a Bachelor of Fine Art with Honours at Massey University CoCA, and also work as a gallery educator and art teacher.

Recent Exhibitions:

2025
Manawatū Now! Local Artists Current Practice, Alice Fennessy, George Agius, Kirsty Porter, Laurence Gatehouse and Tom Armstrong, curated by Sian Van Dyk, Te Manawa Public Art Gallery, April - Sept 2025

Blue, A Group Exhibition featuring Tia Ranginui, Ming Ranginui, Devon Smith, Emma Camden, curated by Angela Tier, Utopia Gallery Whanganui April - May 2025

Homebodies, Alice Fennessy and Jennifer Baker, SECA May - June 2025

2024
Parkin Prize Shortlisted Finalists Exhibition, NZAFA, August 2024

2023

Women & Children: New Works by Alice Fennessy and Bonnie Wroe, October 2023 at A Gallery Whanganui
Parkin Prize Shortlisted Finalists Exhibition, NZAFA, August 2023
High Summer Fading & Small Treasure, Peep Window Gallery, April 2023
Swamp Gallery Group Show, April 2023

2022

Through a small window, Space Gallery, Whanganui

2021

Floating hours and ghost days, Space Gallery, Whanganui

2020

Through Branches/Scattered Across the Lake, Welcome to Nowhere, Whanganui

2019

Blue Nights, Space Gallery, Whanganui
Seeing Red, Thinkspace invitational group show curated by Booooom, Los Angeles
3AM, with Alice Fennessy, AJ Bradley, Briana Jamieson, Katie Morrow & Rose Young, Parrotdog Gallery, Pōneke Wellington