Chalk Horse is pleased to announce that Alice Couttoupes will be presenting a new solo exhibition at the gallery. Couttoupes will present a series of ceramic and photographic works Gallery Two.

Alice Couttoupes is a ceramicist working primarily with porcelain. Throughout her practice the focus of her work has been informed by an exploration of notions of history, national memory, identity and processes of cultural exchange, appropriation and domination. Inspired by a fascination with the natural – particularly botanical – world, her current practice is preoccupied with the processes of colonial botany and their consequent enduring socio-political and environmental implications. The historical and cultural associations, and the traditions of the material with which she works – porcelain – so too provide her with an intellectual framework that underpins her artistic practice. More recently Couttoupes has expanded the scope of her practice beyond the confines of three-dimensional sculptural works to explore the potential of presenting ceramics within a Fine Arts capacity, via a mediation of the objects through photography.

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courtesy of the artist and Chalk Horse