Looking for Alice
This project, using my great grandmother's Victorian doll, was created in 2013 for my final year at the Arts University Bournemouth. It was then amended for the RPS and gained me my Associateship in 2014.
Photography, Digital Photography, Fine Arts,
This is my successful ARPS panel ‘Looking For Alice’ Statement of Intent – Looking For Alice This doll dates from 1875 and once belonged to my great-grandmother Alice, who was born the same year. I planned to use the doll to explore the idea of her searching for her “doll-mother” as inspired by the children’s novel ‘Lady Daisy’ by Dick King-Smith. This sequence of images begins when the doll wakes in an unfamiliar contemporary world and ends with her finding Alice’s final resting place, realizing that she has nothing left; there is no reason to continue. By incorporating a number of Alice’s possessions and a glimpse of her former home, I follow the doll on her journey of search and reflection in which the viewer is allowed to intrude into her private world. My intention was to bring the doll to life and I hope I have achieved that.
The Panel and the hanging plan can been on the RPS website