Alice Wormald creates paintings depicting strange constructed spaces where surface and depth, representation and abstraction and naturalism and artifice converge. The works often emerge through the process of image collection and collage with a focus on natural imagery such as rocks, plants and geological formations. She exercises a controlled sense of representation, grounded in concerns around the act of painting and the physicality of paint itself, while reflecting a hallucinatory experience of space and nature. Alice Wormald completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts with first class honours at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne in 2011. Solo exhibitions include Passion Recognition (2019), Inversion Scenes (2017), Arrangements (2015), Ordinary Picture (2014) and Occluded View (2012) at Daine Singer, and In the Unreal Air at Blindside (2012). Her work has recently shown in Synthetica, a NETS touring exhibition at Wangaratta Art Gallery, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Counihan Gallery, Gippsland Art Gallery, Latrobe Regional Gallery and Wagga Wagga Art Gallery. She has also been included in exhibitions including Accession, Bundoora Homestead (2018), Analogue Art in a Digital World, RMIT Art Gallery (2018), Visiting Painting at Horsham Regional Art Gallery (2016), Imagined Worlds, Town Hall Gallery (2016), Atmosphere at Linden New Art (2015) and Vertigo, an Asialink touring exhibition at Galeri Soemardja, Bandung, Indonesia, Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Taipei, Taiwan and POSCO Art Gallery, Seoul, South Korea (2014). Other group exhibitions include Spring 1883 Art Fair with Daine Singer (Sydney 2017 and 2015, Melbourne 2018, 2016 and 2014) and New Horizons at Gippsland Art Gallery in Sale (2013). She has been a finalist in the Darebin Art Prize (2017, 2015), Bruny Island Art Prize (2016), City of Albany Art Prize (2015), Geelong Contemporary Art Prize (2018 and 2014), the John Leslie Art Prize (2016, 2014 – Highly Commended, 2012), the Macquarie Group Prize for Emerging Artists (2013), and the Banyule City Prize for Works on Paper (2013). Her work is held in the ACU, Gippsland Art Gallery, Darebin City Council, Macquarie Group, Fiona Myer and Joyce Nissan Collections.