Alice Gale-Feeny is an artist who makes performance via dance, sculpture, drawing and facilitation.
Her work evolves out of improvisations alongside costumes and objects, which informs the writing of monologues / scripts. She draws from her lived experience, LGBTQIA+ social histories, the conventions of artistic disciplines and new materialist, post-human and Buddhist philosophies. She has a material practice that involves making maquettes and books. This emerges out of, and feeds back into her performances.
Alice trained in Ba Fine Art at Nottingham Trent (2009-12); completed an MFA in Creative Practice: Dance Professional Practice at Laban / Independent Dance, London (2019-21), and has a Foundation in Meisner Acting technique (2018) and stand-up comedy training from Angel Comedy (2023). She has performed at: Camden Art Centre, London (2023); Seventeen, London (2021); Fabrica, Brighton (2023); Lambeth Fringe Festival, London (2023); Edinburgh Fringe Festival (2023).
Alice taught Ba Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University and Kingston University across a 10-year period. She is currently Artist in Residence at the Women’s Art Library, London, and is collaborating on movement/archival research with artists and dance-makers.
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alicegalefeeny[at]yahoo[dot]com
@alicegalefeeny
Born 1989, Brighton. Lives and works between London and Reading/Oxford
Education
2019-2021 MFA Creative Practice: Dance Professional Practice, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in assoc. with Independent Dance, London
2009-12 BA Hons Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham
Performances
2024 '1989 was 34 Years Ago, Camden Art Centre, London for JOAN publication launch
2024 '1989 was 34 Years Ago, Hey Mum!, Lambeth Fringe Festival, Bread & Roses Theatre, London
2024 'You Can Call it Confirmation Bias' in collaboration with Emma Lindsay, Brighton Fringe Festival,
2023 'You Can Call it Confirmation Bias' in collaboration with Emma Lindsay, Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Aug 3-15)
2022 'book as right hand', Knights Park Library, Kingston School of Art, funded by CARC (Contemporary Art Research Centre)
2021 Performance Exchange, Seventeen gallery, London, curated by Rose LeJeune.
2019 Peer Sessions #88, performance presented at APT Gallery, London.
2017 Béton Caverne, Rennes, France
2013 Hatch: Scratched, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, a Hatch commission.
2012 Hatch: Hazard Festival, in collaboration with Katherine Fishman, St Annes Square, Manchester, a Hatch commission.
2012 ‘Beyond the Suspension of Disbelief’ in collaboration with Katherine Fishman and performed with Michael Pinchbeck, Surface Gallery, Nottingham.
2011 Hatch: Fresh Festival, in collaboration with Katherine Fishman, Embrace Arts Centre, Leicester.
2010 Hatch: It’s about Time Festival, as a member of Medium Rare, Embrace Arts Centre, Leicester, a Hatch commission.
2010 The Red Velvet Curtain Cult presents: I Believe (Tales from the edge of everything) in collaboration with Ruby Glaskin, The De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill.
Solo exhibitions
2017 ’the conditions we’ve set up for ourselves’, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
2016 -17 ’Getting to know’, Nottingham Castle Museum and Gallery.
2015 ’Close Attention’, Space One, Seoul, South Korea.
2014 ’HairWashCarWash’, Two Queens Gallery, Leicester.
Research
2023 ‘Diffracting New Materialisms: Emerging Methods for Artistic Research’, co-contributing chapter author, edited by JJ Chan and Annouchka Bailey published by Palgrave MacMillan
2023 'The Iridescent Creature', performance and chapter reading, On Not Knowing: How Artists Teach, Glasgow School of Art
2021 'Begin in the Middle: Neither Me Nor the Bucket', MFA thesis, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in partnership with Independent Dance, London.
Funding
2023 A-N Artist Bursary recipient
2022 CARC (Contemporary Art Research Centre) funding, Kingston University, supporting the research and initial performance sharing of 'book as right hand'.
2019 Gill Clarke Bursary, awarded by Independent Dance and Siobhan Davies Dance
2019-2021 Leverhulme Arts Scholarship, awarded by Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
2018 A-N Artist Bursary recipient
2015/16 Grants for the Arts funding from Arts Council England for ‘Ground’ with Oliver Tirre
2014 Grants for the Arts funding from Arts Council England
Residencies
2022 ‘228 Chingford Mount, 2-week residency and public sharing alongside Adam Moore, supported by Hypha Studios and Waltham Forest Council, selected by Roisin Ingleby.
2017 Béton Caverne, solo residency, Rennes, France.
2017 New Art Gallery Walsall, ‘Glasshouse’, 1 month, group residency alongside Bryony Gillard and Joe Orr.
2018 UKYA with Claudio Zecchi at Porthmear Studios, St Ives, ‘Cornish Weekender’, group residency on performance and collaboration.
2015-16 STORE projects, peripatetic, 6 months.
2015 The Drawing Board, Primary, Nottingham. Curated by Michael Pinchbeck.
Writing and Reading
2024 JOAN, 'Dance Across the Carpeted Floor, Please', anthology, contributing writer, published by JOAN during their 'Wrong Writing' Residency, Kingston University, London
2022 'One Line, Two Times', reading, 228 Chingford Mount, London, supported by Hypha.
2020 ’As Parts’, poetry edition in collaboration with Jessica Jane Charleston, self published.
2020 ‘Repeating on Me: Patterned Ground’, co-curated night of performance and poetry with Natalie Zervou-Kerruish, Housmans Radical Booksellers, London.
2020 'Gabriella Boyd: For Days' at Seventeen, exhibition review, this is tomorrow, online.
2019 'Pocket Litter’, three poems published by Writers Forum, London. Editors: Matthew Robertson and Laurence Upton.
2019 Patterned Ground, reading, Housmans Radical Booksellers, London.
2018 The Poetry Cafe, London, reading.
2015 'High Street Haiku's', limited text edition, self-published.
2015 'Since the beginning of human civilisation we have worked with second-hand knowledge to shape ourselves (things I have learnt from people my own age.)' Writing commission for ‘Search the Collection’, a project curated by Colette Griffin for Nottingham Castle.
2014 Danh Vō at Nottingham Contemporary, exhibition review, this is tomorrow, online.
2013 Performance Studies International: PSi Lexicon online, published text online.
2012 'In the Presence of Multiple Possibilities', contributing writer, An Ordinary Press Publication, curated by Royal College of Art and French Riviera 1988 Gallery, London.
Events, Facilitation and Curation
2020 ‘Repeating on Me: Patterned Ground’, co-curated reading and performance event with Natalie Zervou-Kerruish, Hausmans Radical Booksellers, London.
2019 'Collectivism’, co-curated residency, Haarlem Artspace, Wirkswirth.
2019 ’Communal Lunch: How to Arrange Ourselves’, Mansions of the Future, Lincoln.
2018 ’In Circles, Around Tables’, facilitated fishbowl conversation event, ‘Dissections’, Royal Academy of Arts, London.
2017 ’2-Way Street’, fishbowl conversation event, Eastside Projects, Birmingham.
2016 ’Ground’, group exhibition co-curated with Oliver Tirre, Turf Projects, Croydon, London.
2015 ’Ground’, exhibition series, co-curated with Oliver Tirre, ATTIC, One Thoresby Street, Nottingham.
Group Exhibitions and screenings
2022 ‘228 Chingford Mount, duo presentation alongside Adam Moore, supported by Hypha Studios and Waltham Forest Council, selected by Roisin Ingleby.
2022 ancient~flippant, Gallery Lock-In, Brighton, curated by Emma Lindsay.
2021 Kinesthesia festival, selected video work, Middlesex University, in partnership with Independent Dance, London and online.
2021 ACTS, Stanley Picker Public Lecture Series, online
2018 ’Retreat: this is not a holiday’, group exhibition and solo performance, curated by Michael Whitby and Sarah Bowden, Hardwick Gallery, Cheltenham
2017 ‘Glasshouse’, New Art Gallery Walsall
2017 ‘Portes Ouvertes’, group exhibition with Simon Faithfull, Briac Lepretre, Caroline McCarthy, Guillaume Pinard, Babeth Rambault, Roy Voss, Minoterie21, Brittany, France. Curated by Alun Williams and Claire Lestevan.
2017 ’Production Show: Artists House’, group exhibition, Eastside Projects, Birmingham.
2017 ’Steppes’, group exhibition, Two Queens Gallery, Leicester in association with Eastside Projects, Birmingham.
2016 ’Five Finger Discount’, group exhibition, Bronze Dog, Göteborg, Sweden, curated by Joe Rowley.
2015 ’Nottingham Castle Open 2015’, group exhibition, Nottingham Castle Museum and Gallery. Selected by Deb Covell, Robert Dingle, Kerry Harker and Ben Woodeson.
2015 ’Magnolia Cube’, group exhibition, 114 Middleton Road, London, curated by Christopher Burman.
2015 ‘RoCH Fans & Legends’, GIF commission, QUAD, Derby.
2015 ’Playing With Space’, touring screening curated by Lawrence Bradby, Norwich Arts Centre, Live Art Development Agency, London, FirstSite, Colchester, The Maltings and Newbridge Projects, Berwick-Upon-Tweed.
2014 ‘FOAM’, audio commission, ATTIC, One Thoresby Street, Nottingham, curated by Mat Jenner.
2014 ’NN Northampton Contemporary Art Open’, group exhibition, Northampton.
2013 ’Artist Film Fortnight: ‘Joints in Associative Scenes’, screening curated by Katherine Fishman, The Lombard Method, Birmingham.
2012 ’Cultural Embassies’, Maribor 2012 European Capital of Culture, group exhibition, Vetrinj Mansion, Maribor, Slovenia.
Participation and collaborations
2019-2024 A Particular Reality, inter-institutional collaboration, Kingston School of Art, Goldsmiths, Manchester Met, Middlesex University, Bath Spa.
2021-22 Manuela Albrecht, research collaborator for Body Polyphonies
2016-2021 Reactor, Performance collaborator.
2020-2021 DanceOutsideDance, podcast, in collaboration with Laura Colomban, Michaela Gerussi, Julia Pond.
2017-2019 Artist Working Group (lead facilitator), London
2015-18 Film Free and Easy, Nottingham
Press
2021 DanceOutsideDance, ‘Double Interview with Alice Gale-Feeny and Michaela Gerussi’, podcast.
2019 Interview with Matt Cornell for Wombat Radio, conversations on dance and choreography (online).
2017 ’How many other people are you able to drift with, alone?: Conversations June ‘16 - Apr ‘17’, Doggerland, London (online).
2012 Beyond the Suspension of Disbelief, Wayne Burrows, The Serendipity Project, 13 March, 2012.