Watch Alice Sheppard Fidler MRSS who joined the Royal Society of Sculptors in 2023 as part of the Gilbert Bayes Award, talk about her experience and why she recommends emerging artists to apply.
Alice’s practice spans Installation, sculpture and performance, often operating outside the gallery context. Born 1966, UK, she lives and works near Stroud, Gloucestershire, having lived in London till 2016, where she was a founding member of Studio Voltaire Gallery and Arts Charity.
Selected solo shows include, Imagining the fluidity of Permanence, Casa Regis, Italy 2022 and Site-specific Installation Surfeit, Old Butchers Shop, Stroud 2019. Collaborative exhibitions Alice curated and exhibited in, include THISS, eight artists bring their practice outside, Stroud, 2022 and leave / stay / arrive, an exhibition with artist Rebecca Stapleford on the former site of the Comrades Club, Nailsworth 2021. Alice exhibits in group shows with regular inclusion in the RWA Annual Open, Bristol. Commissions include support for new work from Bricks Bristol 2020 and in 2022 Alice received the Gilbert Bayes Award for 2023, from the Royal Society of Sculptors.
She is a Guest lecturer at The University of the West of England, Bristol where she received her MA in Fine Art, and is the founder of The Hide Artist Retreat which offer residencies, workshops, events and exhibitions in her studio at The Hide and on-line.
