Alice Lenkiewicz
Born 1964, Tavistock, Devon.
Email- alicelenkiewicz@googlemail.com
Education
1998 – 2001- BA Honours Art & Design & English – 1st Class degree.
Edge Hill College of Higher Education.
2001 – 2003 – MA Writing Studies .
Edge Hill College of Higher Education.
1989 – Arts Foundation – Open University.
1983 – 1984 – Art Foundation – Plymouth College of Art.
Representation
Degree Art – Somerset House
Awards
Teravarna Gallery. Honorable Mention Award for the 5th Colour Art Competition
Exhibitions and projects
Forthcoming – Solo Show / The Vault – Creative Street Studios, Hamilton Square, Birkenhead.
2023 – Forthcoming group show. I See YOU – Bath Fringe Festival.
2022 – Three-month art residency from June – House of Annetta, Princelet Street.
2022 – WOW Festival Marketplace, South London Women Artists. (March 11-13) Arts and Crafts.
2022 – South London Women Artists – Group show. ‘I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar’ – AMP Gallery, Peckham, London. (March 3-6)
2021 – 26 to Zero Hour Online Charity Auction. Supporting campaign group Zero Hour’ and their work on The Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill, in partnership with art gallery DegreeArt.com.
2021 – Group show – Inside Outside – Llanover Hall, – Cardiff – Women’s Arts Association Wales.
2021 – The Curators salon, “She Answered “Art” – South London Women Artists.
2020 & 2023 Art House Southport – 2022 – Solo Show, Nouveau – 2023 – Tenth anniversary celebration group exhibition.
2020 – International Women’s Day – Art Central Barry and Llanover Hall – Textile Art.
2020 – Housekeeping – Jeannie Avent Gallery – London – Writings – Group show.
2018 – Solo Show – “Inspired by Nature” – The Bear Steps Gallery – Shrewsbury.
2018 – Rimrose Valley – Environmental Art Trail – Goddess Trail.
2017 – Hornshaw Gallery – Genius in Beauty – A&D Gallery – Marylebone – London.
2016 – Hornshaw Gallery – Looking to the Stars – Brick Lane Gallery, London.
2015 – Look/15 – Liverpool Photography Festival – Group show.
2015 – GOOD FIGURES – TINT -ART – Mall Galleries – London.
2014 – Future Visions – Threshold Festival – Digital Art.
2014 – Solo Show – “Beauty” – Bistro One – Plymouth
2014 – Solo Show – Retrospective – The Art Gallery – Bootle.
2013 – Number Nine Gallery – Birmingham – Selected Paintings.
2013 – Art in The City – Wall to Wall Gallery – Prince’s Trust Art Auction.
2012 – Solo Show – ‘Journey of the Bride” – Blackburne House – Liverpool.
2012 – Vice Chancellor’s Lodge – University of Liverpool. Group show – Landscape.
2012 – Debut Contemporary – Kensington, London, Group show, Juicy June.
2012 – TOMS One for One Art of Giving Tour. Group Show – Baltic Quarter, Liverpool.
2011 – Group Show – “-SHO/Is – She’s – Hers – Ours – 75 Women” – Feminist Art Show. The Gallery Stoke Newington, London.
2010 – Solo Show – Lady Chapel – “Noble Women” Liverpool Anglican Cathedral.
2010 – Group Show – “Recollections” – Edge Hill University 125th Anniversary, Ormskirk.
2009 – Solo Show – “Gin Lane” – Dot art – Liverpool.
2009 – Group show Lauries centre – “Continuities” – Wirral – Photography.
2009 – Group Show – “Showcase” Cafe 1001 – Brick Lane – London.
2009 – The Garage Presents – Insider Outsider – San Diego – California – USA.
2008 – Group show – “Migration” – Novas centre -Liverpool.
2008 – Group Show – “Drawn here” – Arena Studios – Liverpool.
2002 – Group show – “Ladies Only’ – Creative Letts – Liverpool Independents., Blundell Street.
1995 – Solo Show – Museum of Oxford – Oxford Visual Arts Week, St Aldates.
1991 – Solo Show – Selected Paintings – Pied Cow Coffeehouse – Portland – USA.
1989 – Group Show – Brighton Pavilion Gallery – Bookbindings.
1989 – Group Exhibition – Murals “Berlin Wall” – Maize Gallery – Brighton.
1988 – Solo Show – “Horizons” – Oxford Old Fire Station.
Art Fairs
2018 – Liverpool Art Fair- Dot Art
2014 – Liverpool Art Fair – Dot Art
2012 – Cheshire Art Fair
2012 – Parallax Art Fair – Chelsea
2013 – Edinburgh Art Fair – Number Nine Gallery
2012 – New Artist Fair- London
Talks
2009 – Fact- Artist’s talks- Standing Out as an Artist- Dot-art
Performance
2019 – 2020 – Give Poetry a Chance
2018 – Performer – Signature Sculptural Facial – Liverpool Biennial
2018 – Installation – Walk the Sacred Way – City is a School – Liverpool Biennial
2009 – Neon Highway presents CRUNCH- Poetry Reading -The Fifth Floor – Tate Liverpool
2006 – Liverpool.- Walker Art Gallery- Poetry Reading – Capital of Culture
2006 – 33/45 Club – Liverpool- Poetry.Reading – Guest Poet – Geraldine Monk and Alan Halsey
2003 – Rose Theatre – Edge Hill University – Poetry reading.
2008 – The Bluecoat – Women’s Poetry Reading – The Sandon Room – Liverpool
2008 – Manchester – North West Writers – Poetry Reading
Previous curatorial experience
2022 – The South London Women Artists – I AM WOMAN, HEAR ME ROAR! for International Women’s Day. 2022. AMP Gallery, Peckham.
2021: Set up The Songbird Gallery – A space for art exhibitions and projects –
The Pendle Witches Art Performance.
2013 – The Art Gallery Bootle initiative, 78 Stanley Road, Bootle, Merseyside, L20 2AB –
Exhibitions: Order and Chaos, Facing the City, Crossing Borders, I am Spartacus, Be- Bop, Local History, Summer exhibition , The Enchanted Garden, The Dream,Clubbing, Brave New World.
Archive website: https://bootleartgallery.wordpress.com/
2008 – The Toxteth Art Gallery Initiative
Exhibitions – September 2008 – Liverpool, United Kingdom – St. Brides Church – Exhibition – In an ideal World – The Toxteth Art Gallery presents local artists from Liverpool city and abroad in a mixed exhibition of various media.
Toxteth Art Gallery – September 2010 – Liverpool , United Kingdom – Exhibition, Voice and Visibility – Toxteth Town Hall – Exhibition: An installation based upon memory and experience – Artists, members of the community and Sola Arts collaborate on a project for the Toxteth Town Hall in the beautiful newly restored meeting room. (Sponsored by North West Housing Services)
The Toxteth Art Gallery – Liverpool , United Kingdom, Over the Water, Through the City, Into the Park, 15 September – 15 November 2012 – View by Appointment 15 September – 15 November 2012 Open Mondays – The Vice-Chancellor’s Lodge, University of Liverpool.
The Toxteth Art Gallery – Liverpool , United Kingdom – Exhibition – Love or Nothing – Private view of Toxteth Art Gallery’s exhibition, exploring what it means to Love and lose Love, the Space and Silent Space, a personal exploration of emptiness versus fulfilment. – Opening Night: 10, October 2012, 1800 – 2100 – The Florence Institute – 377 Mill Street – Toxteth – Liverpool L8 4RF, UK
2004 – Poetry readings in conjunction with my poetry magazine, Neon Highway.
Organised live readings at Liverpool Central Library in the Hornby Room. The events were funded by the Arts Council for Liverpool Central Library. I continued to put on readings with guest poets at Liverpool Museum Planetarium, The Walker Art Gallery, The Bluecoat, 33-45 club and Tate Liverpool. Guest poets were Geraldine Monk, Robert Shepard, Dave Ward, Allen Fisher, Bill Griffiths, Alan Halsey, Lawrence Upton, Steve Sneyd and many more. Readings involved people published in and outside Neon Highway Magazine, the aim being to bring together local as well as guest writers from further afield.
Neon Highway Poetry Magazine and Readings
April 2005 – Liverpool , United Kingdom – Poetry in the City – Capital of Culture – April 10th, 2005 – The Walker Art Gallery – William Brown Street – Liverpool – Room 12 – Poets from the Edge Hill Poetics Research Group will also be reading their work along with guest poets.
May 2005 – May 2005 – Liverpool , United Kingdom -2005 Neon Highway Reading Series, The Walker Art Gallery,Liverpool -Medieval Room – Philip Davenport with Tony Trehy and Ben Gwilliam – Performances and Versions – A poetry event at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool – Saturday 13th May – 2.30pm – 4.30pm
April 2006 – Liverpool , United Kingdom – Poetry Reading – Guest poet, Steve Sneyd – The Planetarium – World Museum Liverpool – Saturday 29th April – 12-2pm
January 2009 – Liverpool , United Kingdom – Curated CRUNCH – A Poetry Reading – Tate Liverpool – Tate 5th Floor project: Ideas Taking Space: CRUNCH. 2009 – Neon Highway Poetry Magazine presents CRUNCH – Readings from The Fifth Floor – Sunday 25 January 2009, 16.30–17.50 – Performance and reading. Poets and musicians play and read text and thoughts concerning The Wall Street Crash, 1929. Poems will be a response to artists and their work throughout The Fifth Floor project concerning the credit crunch and present day Liverpool.
Further readings have been held in The Bluecoat The Sandon Room, The Masque nightclub, The 33-45 Club.
Neon Highway Poetry Magazine Archive. .http://neon-highway.blogspot.com
Commissions
1990 – Brighton Festival – Zap Club installation
2011 – Edge Hill University – Painting commission for Gifts
2015 – Book Cover Art – Jane Wenham: The Witch of Walkern
2020 – Book Illustration Commission – Private
2023 – Book Cover Art
Publications and writing
Artlyst London – Press Writer of Art Reviews
Poems Published in Zines: Peggy’s Blue Skylight, Pages, Smoke, The Journal, The People’s Poet, Fire, The Marymark Press.
Published Books and Poems
Maxine – Novella – Prose and Fiction – Published by Bluechrome.
Men Hate Blondes – Poetry Collection – Published by Original Plus.
When Robert met Mouse – Memoir of my parents
Give Poetry a Chance – Poetry Anthology
Listening to the Birth of Crystals – Poetry Anthology
Lockdown Poems, Ledbury Poetry Festival.
World in Lockdown – People’s poem. https://wirralview.com/news/local-poets-give-wirral-voice-world-lockdown-people-s-poem
Art Collections – Art UK – The Robert Lenkiewicz Liverpool Collection.
https://artuk.org/discover/stories/introducing-the-robert-lenkiewicz-liverpool-collection
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