Artist statement
I am an artist based rurally between Reading and Oxford. My performances ask indirect questions and return to particular fixations: books, bags, buckets, boxes. You may feel as though you’re stumbling into a divergent performance lecture where the speaker breaks into song and dance.
I experiment with different roles during these performances, trying on flirtatious, sincere, assured, and whimsical personas. I pivot between improvised movement scores and non-linear narratives, punctuated by shadow play, chants and calls to action on placards and embroidered T-shirts.
The work is often rooted in my lived experience in conversation with shared social histories. I am compelled to talk about events in the history of the LGBTQIA+ fight for liberation-most recently, the Section 28 laws and the impact they had on my generation.
My sculptures were once performance props, and drawings and diagrams are the result of accumulating research in archives, capturing networks of artworks, books, and conversations. I repeat and reconfigure information and motifs to problem-solve and eventually build logic. This process often involves reducing imagery and language to the point of abstraction, an approach that helps me to digest complex subjects “through the back door" and can create space for audiences to join the conversation.
Through an eagerness for seriousness and humour to exist side by side, I’m most at home working across galleries, museums, dance spaces, libraries and cabaret nights. I often work site-responsively, getting hooked on a fragment of social history or an object that prompts me to recycle my materials and reassemble them again.
Bio
Alice Gale-Feeny (born 1989, Brighton UK) has performed at Goldsmiths CCA with the Feminist Duration Reading Group' and Deptford X Festival (2025); Supernormal Festival, Braziers Park (2025); Camden Art Centre, London for the launch of a collection published by JOAN of which she is a contributing writer (2023); Fabrica, Brighton (2023); Lambeth Fringe Festival, London (2023); Edinburgh Fringe Festival (2023); Seventeen, London for Performance Exchange curated by Rose LeJeune (2021).
Alice was Artist-in Residence at Women's Art Library, Goldsmiths (2024-2025) where she had her solo exhibition 'I'm Trying to Find the Others: Section 28 and All My Workings Out' (2025). Alice was invited by Producer Nikki Tomlinson and Nick Toner to be in residence at Newington Green Meeting House, London supported by The Grand Camp Maisie Fund (Autumn 2025).
Alice trained in Ba Fine Art at Nottingham Trent (2009-12). She was awarded the Gill Clarke Bursary and Leverhulme Scholarship to take an MFA in Creative Practice: Dance Professional Practice at Trinity Laban/ Independent Dance, London (2019-21). Alice has a Foundation in Meisner Acting technique ( Actor's Temple, 2018) and trained in stand up comedy (Angel Comedy) with a bursary from A-N (2023).
Alice has lectured in Ba Fine Art for over ten years (Nottingham Trent University from 2025-19 and Kingston University from 2019-2025). She has been improvising for over 12 years, and works collaboratively with artists and dance-makers alongside her solo practice.
CV
Education
2019-2021 MFA Creative Practice: Dance Professional Practice, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and Independent Dance, London
2009-12 BA Hons Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University
Performances
2026 Section 28 and its Afterlives, Greenwich University Heritage Gallery
2025 Supernormal Festival, Braziers Park, South Oxfordshire.
2025 'Unbecoming Chorus' curated by Feminist Duration Reading Group, in partnership with Deptford X Festival, Goldsmiths CCA, London, July 20th 2025.
2024 Camden Art Centre, London for a JOAN publication launch
2024 Hey Mum!, Lambeth Fringe Festival, Bread & Roses Theatre, London
2023-2024 Fabrica, Brighton Fringe Festival and Edinburgh Fringe Festival, in collaboration with Emma Lindsay.
2022 ancient~flippant, Gallery Lock-In, Brighton, curated by Emma Lindsay.
2022 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.
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.
Residencies
2025 Newington Green Meeting House, London, funded by The Grand Camp Maisie Fund. Produced by Nikki Tomlinson, supported by Nick Toner.
2022 ‘228 Chingford Mount, alongside Adam Moore, Hypha Studios and Waltham Forest Council, selected by Roisin Ingleby.
2017 Béton Caverne, solo residency, Rennes, France.
2017 New Art Gallery Walsall, ‘Glasshouse’, group residency alongside Bryony Gillard and Joe Orr
2018 Porthmear Studios, St Ives, UK Young Artists ‘Cornish Weekender’, group residency
2015-16 STORE projects
2015 The Drawing Board, Primary, Nottingham, curated by Michael Pinchbeck.
Funding
2025 The Grand Camp Maisie Fund
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
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 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.
Solo exhibitions
2025 I’m Trying to Find the Others: Section 28 and All My Workings Out, Women's Art Library, Goldsmiths, London.
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.
Group Exhibitions and screenings
2021 Kinesthesia festival, selected video work, Middlesex University, in partnership with Independent Dance, London
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 & Claire Lestevan.
2017 ’Production Show: Artists House’, group exhibition, Eastside Projects, Birmingham.
2017 ’Steppes’, group exhibition, Two Queens Gallery, Leicester in assoc. 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’, group exhibition, Vetrinj Mansion, Maribor, Slovenia.
Collaborations
2025 Henrietta Hale, performance collaborator alongside Ben Ash, Alexandra Baybutt, Rachel Lopez de la Nieta
2023-2024 Emma Lindsay performance collaboration
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
Writing
2024 JOAN, 'Dance Across the Carpeted Floor, Please', anthology, contributing writer
2020 ’As Parts’, poetry edition in collaboration with Jessica Jane Charleston, self published.
2020 'Gabriella Boyd: For Days' at Seventeen, exhibition review, this is tomorrow, online.
2019 Patterned Ground, reading, Housmans Radical Booksellers, London.
2015 Commission for ‘Search the Collection’, a project curated by Colette Griffin for Nottingham Castle Museum.
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.
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, conference, 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.
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.