One of the island’s emerging artistic talents has had her work included in a prestigious UK arts gallery.

Alice Dudley, who is in her final year studying fine art at Falmouth University, was included in the Tate Gallery’s Emerging Artist programme at the beginning of the year and her work is about to be published.

Alice is one of a group of 20 young artists who were chosen for the programme, which runs every year in partnership between the Tate St Ives and Falmouth University.

The chosen creatives worked with the gallery earlier this year to create and present new collaborative work based around the theme ’the Cornish landscape’.

For her part in the collaborative project, Alice created a series of embroidered pieces inspired by the famous Lost Gardens of Heligan, at St Austell, using the colours and shapes of the gardens and landscape to create seven circular, abstract patterns that invoke nostalgia and memory.

The project was severely interrupted by the covid restrictions, which has led to a change on how the work is to be displayed.

In any other year, the collaborative project would have displayed on the walls of the Tate St Ives gallery.

However, due to the restrictions, which were still in place during the creation of the project, the finished pieces will now feature in a magazine, published by the gallery, which will be released this summer, in line with the gallery’s eventual reopening.

However, some of Alice’s work has already been exhibited in around the streets of Falmouth as part of a recent ’Street View’ exhibition, a student-led art exhibition which saw nearly every window in the Cornish coastal town filled with the work of local artists.

Also, rather than being able work face-to-face with her fellow students and Tate gallery resident artists , most of the collaborative work was held over online meetings, while she was splitting her time between being at home in the Isle of Man and Cornwall.

’It’s safe to say it wasn’t exactly how I had envisioned the experience originally,’ said Alice.

’Meeting every two weeks on Teams didn’t quite have the same feel as working directly alongside artists and Tate curators in a gallery space, but it was still such a lively project.

’Responding to the Cornish landscape when I was in lockdown in the Isle of Man at the time also proved to be a little challenging.

’Nostalgia became a central part of the project, revisiting old surroundings and old ways of working.’

More details of the Emerging Artists project can be found on the ’Alice Dudley Art’ Facebook page.

by Mike Wade

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