Alice Motte-Muñoz
Alice Motte-Muñoz
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Reflections and Reflexions (Self-Portrait), 2021
Photograph on paper
75 x 75 cm
Edition of 10 + 2AP
About this work
This self-portrait is an ode to the artist's Filipino tribal roots, through the facial scrolls. The lines act as threads, alluding to how everything is interconnected in a trans-disciplinary way. It is a reflection on the sense of the forbidden, yet craved for, sense of touch in the current pandemic. The orchid's open flowers and buds celebrate hope, and our own combination of fragility and strength. Furthermore, the orchid refers to masks as here it both protects the sitter's face whilst reminding us of our responsibility, as humans, to protect nature. This portrait also seeks to remind us of the importance of resilience and curiosity.
Reflections and Reflexions (Self-Portrait), 2021 has been Longlisted, Highly Commended Works, for the Ruth Borchard Biennial Self-Portrait Prize 2021.
About Alice Motte-Muñoz
Alice Motte-Muñoz is a Filipina-French artist who studied at the Royal College of Art obtaining her Masters of Research, Fine Arts & Humanities in 2020. She also received a BA in Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2005 and Postgraduate Diploma in the Classical and Decorative Arts of Asia at the British Museum in 2006. Motte-Muñoz won first place at Trinity Buoy Wharf (previously, Jerwood) Drawing Prize in 2019; she was longlisted, as Highly Commended Works, in the Biennial Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize, U.K., 2021; in 2020 she was a finalist for the Ingram Collection Prize, shortlisted for the Derwent Art Prize, and longlisted for the V.A.O. Art Prize, selected as a Highly Commended Artist; in 2019 she was shortlisted for the ING Discerning Eye Prize.
Motte-Muñoz is artistically influenced by her ethnic roots: half Filipina half French, she has grown up, lived and worked in both Europe and Asia, including more than 15 years in London. Some of her major areas of research are grace and justice, which are important concepts for her. Through her art she wishes for the viewer to feel a sense of hope, accountability or curiosity.
She seeks artistic ways to honour both traditional and innovative techniques that can transcend a vertical/linear understanding and usage of art, simultaneously working with more sustainable materials, to pay an ode to the protection of the environment.
Education
2020/21 Royal College of Art, Masters of Research, Fine Arts & Humanities, London
2021 and 2019 Intensive/Development Programs at the Royal Drawing School and Slade School of Arts, London
2006 Postgraduate Diploma in the Classical and Decorative Arts of Asia, British Museum, London
2005 Bachelor of Arts in Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Awards & Recognitions
2021
Longlisted, as Highly Commended Works, in the Biennial Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize, U.K
2020
Finalist for the Ingram Collection Prize
Shortlisted for the Derwent Art Prize
Longlisted for the V.A.O. Art Prize, Selected as a Highly Commended Artist
2019
Shortlisted for the ING Bank Discerning Eye Prize
First Place at Trinity Buoy Wharf (previously, Jerwood) Drawing Prize (By Jury’s unanimous vote)
2006
British Museum Scholarship
Group Exhibitions
2021
Biennial Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize Longlisted Artists, Highly Commended Works, (organized by Piano Nobile Gallery, London, and on Artsy)
Royal College of Art's Research Biennale in 2021
2020
Works show on London Design Museum website during the Symposium in between the Royal College of Art and the London Design Museum, “Thinking inside and outside the box”
Derwent Art Prize Shortlisted artists' show (online)
Ingram Collection Prize Finalists' show (online)
Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art, London
San Mei Gallery, London, in Collaboration with Royal College of Art
2019
Exhibition Tour travelling the U.K. for a year (2019-2020) as a Winner of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Award, along with its shortlisted artists; The Salisbury Museum, the Trinity Buoy Wharf Arts Centre in London, and the Leicester Gallery at De Montfort University.
ING Bank Discerning Eye Prize Shortlisted Artists, Federation of British Artists, Pall Mall Galleries, London
Slade School End of Program Exhibition
Publications:
2020 Photography Book, Royal Automobile Club, London, December 2020
Digital exhibition catalogue for the “DIG” show at San Mei Gallery, Group publication with the Royal College of Art, May 2020
Exhibition Catalogue, Ingram Prize, 2020
Exhibition Catalogue, ING Bank Discerning Eye Prize, 2019
Exhibition Catalogue, Trinity Buoy Wharf Prize, 2019
Selected by, and published in, Murze Magazine, October 2019