Hi, my name is Alice Burnhope
Textile Artist
As an award-winning textile artist, I blend sustainability with creativity and play to create immersive experiences. Using recycled materials and natural dyes, the experimental wearable art, installations and sculptural forms, I create tap into our primal needs for touch, comfort, and a connection to the natural world.
Socially-Engaged Artist Educator
With a strong focus on community engagement, I invite diverse individuals to co-create through textiles, fostering empowerment and storytelling to address themes of social integration, mental wellbeing, and connectivity to nature.
Workshop Facilitator
My background as a workshop facilitator is rich and varied, spanning collaborations with museums, organisations, charities, corporate clients, fashion brands, schools, and youth services.
Scroll down for Artist CV
↓
Alice Burnhope is a textile artist and Sarabande scholar. She was born and raised in the West Midlands and has a first-class degree in Textiles: Innovation and Design from Loughborough University, East Midlands.
Alice’s work highlights the importance of the natural world and the sensory experience of being immersed within nature. She facilitates community workshops in skill sharing to empower locals voices and present their stories to a wider audience by creating sculptural forms, tactile wearable art and immersive spaces. Alice utilises unwanted textiles, traditional craft techniques and natural dyes, to support wellbeing and connectivity to nature.
Alice’s aspirations are to co-create with marginalised communities and individuals with disabilities through the power of textiles and nature. Her ambitions are to inspire and create playful community spaces that seeks to support a more inclusive and harmonious world. Alice aims are to interactively promote nature’s ability to improve personal wellbeing which are grounded in a holistic, socially and environmentally considered philosophy.
Alice facilitates a host of creative textile workshops, including embroidery and natural dye workshops. Additionally, she is an artist educator, working with local schools in Deptford and the Royal Maritime Museum, supporting and inspiring young people and families with their creative ambitions.
Alice’s work has been exhibited internationally and has taken part in group and solo shows in London and throughout the UK.
EDUCATION
2016/20 - First Class BA Hons in Textiles: Innovation and Design, Loughborough University.
2020 - Diploma in Professional Studies, Loughborough University.
2015 - Art and Design Foundation, Distinction, Loughborough University.
COMMISSIONS & COLLABORATIONS
2024 - Creative Practitioner for Royal Horticultural Society for 'Gardens of Imagination' Programme | Lewisham, London
2023 /24 - Creative Practitioner & commissioned Installation by ArtHouse Jersey | 'Land & Us | La Tèrre Et Nous' Project | Jersey
2023 - Scouted by TV Show 'Repair Shop' for a maker role.
2023 - Workshop Facilitator for Arts 4 Dementia & Buckingham Palace | 6 Weeks Facilitation Collaboration | London
2022/23 - Creative Practitioner for Lewisham Borough of Culture & Cockpit Studios | Commissioned Installation 'Murmuration' & Lead Maker for Creative Challenge | London
2021/23 - Commissioned by Hayward Gallery | Collection for Louise Bourgeois 'The Woven Child' Exhibition | South Bank, London
2021 - Commissioned by Toast & Crafts Council for Repairs/Artwork for 'Renewal' Project
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2023 /24 - 'Land & Us | La Tèrre Et Nous' at ArtHouse Jersey | Jersey
2023 - Maker in Residence at Goya Design Studio | Peckham, London
2022 - 'When Waste Meets Design' Exhibition at Arthouse Jersey | Jersey
2022 - London Borough of Culture - Artist in Residence for the Day | Lewisham, London
2021 /23 - 'Make It' Maker at Cockpit Studios Deptford | Lewisham, London
2020 - Modern Painters, New Decorators | East Midlands
AWARDS
2022 - The Fine Art Textile Prize 2022 | Shortlisted, supported by The Open College of the Arts.
2022 - Awarded Cockpit Textile Prize 2022
2021 - A-N Artists Bursaries 2021 | Time Space Money
2021 - Loughborough University | Founder's Club Grant
2021/22 - Awarded the 'Developing Your Creative Practice' Grant from Arts Council
2021 - Nominated by Tamsin Blanchard for '2022 Arts Foundation Futures Award for Materials Innovation, focused on participatory and co-created theatre.'
2020 - Awarded 'Make It at Cockpit Arts 2021'
2020 - ‘One to Watch’ Youth Crafts Council
2016/20 - ‘Sarabande Foundation Scholarship’, Sarabande Foundation founded by Lee Alexander McQueen
2016 - ‘John Mack Foundation Prize’ Loughborough University
2014 - 'The Samantha Malbon Memorial Trophy' for Art and Design
2010 - Art Scholarship for St Dominic's Grammar School, Brewood.
TALKS & SEMINARS
2025 - Upcoming talks 'Greening your Art Practice' at Walsall Art Gallery
2024 - Panel Talk for Cockpit Effect 2024 at Art Guild
2024 - 'Waste Not! With Alice Burnhope' at Amwell Quilters
2024 - 'Waste Not! With Alice Burnhope' at Bromley Embroiderers Guild
2024 - Artist Talk & Tour for 'Land & Us | La Tèrre Et Nous' Project at ArtHouse Jersey | Jersey
2023 - Artist Talk for 'Japanese Aesthetics of Recycling' at the Brunei Gallery and in partnership with SOAS | London
2023 - 'Conversation on making with Waste with Alice Burnhope' at St Helen’s Community Centre | Leicestershire
EXHIBTIONS
2024 - 'A Textile Assembly' Group Show Curated by Craft Show | London Craft Week at Staffordshire Street Gallery | Peckham, London
2024 - 'Land & Us | La Tèrre Et Nous' at ArtHouse Jersey Capital House | Jersey
2023 - 'Murmuration' Installation for Lewisham Borough of Culture | Forest Hill Library, Lewisham London
2022 - The Knitting & Stitching Show in London and Harrogate
2022 - The Festival of Quilts at NEC Birmingham
2022 - 'When Waste Meets Design' Exhibition at Arthouse Jersey
2022 - 'Soft Dialogue' with Soft Collective, during London Craft Week. The Department Store, Brixton
2022 - Artwork for sale at 'Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child' Exhibition at the Hayward Gallery
2021 - 'Crown Shyness' SKT Spaces at The Halley. Haggerston, London
2021 - 'In the Wild' The Artist Lounge
2021 - 'Fashion Season' LCB Depot, Leicestershire
2021 - 'Rising Stars 2021: Call for Early Career Makers,' New Ashgate Gallery, Surrey
2020 - ‘Home(work)’ at ArtHelix Gallery, New York in partnership with SHIM Art Network and The Social Distance Art Project
2020 - 'Feet on the Ground Head in the Sky,' Modern Painter, New Decorators, East Midlands
2020 - ‘Design Season 3’ showcase at LCB Depot, East Midlands
2020 - Solo exhibition ‘Harmony’ at Gallery No.32, London
2020 - ‘Complication’ exhibition at Eclectic Magazine
2020 - ‘Earth’ exhibition at Round Lemon
2020 - 'Online Degree Show,' Loughborough University Creative Arts, East Midlands
2018 - 2020 - Designs were selected for Première Vision in Paris
2017 - 'Making History' exhibition at Charnwood Community Centre
2016 - 'Transparency and Layers' installation was exhibited at Loughborough University
2016 - Foundation Year Postcard Art show, exhibited at Loughborough University
WORKSHOP PARTNERS
2024 - Royal Academy of Arts
2024 - Stitch Club | Online
2024 - Leighton House & Sambourne House | Chelsea, London
2024 - The British Museum | London
2024 - Royal Horticultural Society | London
2024 - Arte International | Chelsea, London
2024 - Gallery No.32 | South East, London
2023/24 - St George's Hospital Charity | London
2023 - Buckingham Palace | London
2023 - ACAVA & Maxilla Men's Shed | Kensington, London
2023 - Now Gallery | London
2023 - Greenwich Peninsula | London
2023 - Migration Museum | Lewisham, London
2023 - Katie Treggiden | Online
2023 - Hole & Corner | London
2023 - Adidas | London
2023 - Goya Design | London
2022/23 - Deptford Green Secondary School | Lewisham, London
2022/24 - ArtHouse Jersey | Jersey
2022/24 - Royal Maritime Museums | London
2022/24 - Arts 4 Dementia | London
2022 - Old Spitalfields Market | London
2022 - London Craft Week | London
2022 - American Vintage | London
2022/23 - Lewisham Borough of Culture | Lewisham, London
2021 - London Design Week | London
2021 - Colour of Saying | London
2021 - Toast | London
2021/24 - Cockpit Studios | London
WORK EXPERIENCE
2022 /24 - Colour of Saying | Experience-driven CMF design agency | Freelance CMF Designer, Research & Studio Assistant
2022 /23 - Social Media Coordinator for Young Craft Citizen at Crafts Council
2022 - Deptford Green Secondary School | Freelance Textile Tutor | Teaching Year 10 Textile students, stitch techniques leading up to their GSCE’s
2021 - Studio Assistant for Unit 89 | Ceramics and Installation studio
2018/19 - Three London internships at PriestmanGoode, Anne Kyyro Quinn and John Alexander Skelton