Alice Sherlock | Romeo and Juliet

Alice Sherlock’s practice centres around the idea of aural verbatim storytelling, focusing on locality, the everyday, and the mundane. She takes recorded familial conversations discussing childhood stories and turns them into a visual language. Her work is not a literal translation of these stories but a romanticised, fantasied, bittersweet look at nostalgia.

A lot of her work revolves around domestic scenes and items people are very familiar with - such as tables, chairs and fence posts. By including these items it gives the audience a way into her work and is something that they already have connections with, this allows them to then go deeper into the storytelling aspect of her practice. Working across disciplines such as painting, drawing, sculpture and print allows Alice to explore storytelling in a more nuanced way. The delicate etched line on a print engages with an almost forgotten memory whereas the thick brush mark on a canvas speaks to a more playful surreal memory that has been exaggerated and elaborated on with every retelling of the story.

Alice works on being playful in her practice, adding humour and not taking anything too seriously. Sh sees her practice almost as an act of translation turning an aural story into a visual language. Once the story has been filtered through her it often becomes more ambiguous and often exaggerated as stories often do when being retold. This then extends the parameters for more surreal and uncanny elements, playing with perspective to create an imagined world. Alice sketches whilst listening to the recorded verbatim recording, then draws from the drawing which makes the drawing more playful. This allows her to worry less about the image being an accurate depiction.

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