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School of Fine Art
Sculpture & Environmental Art

Alice Pool

The Locust

It is stuck in the fibres of a green cashmere sweater on a forgotten hot summers day.

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Things I've Seen

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Tall Stories

Animation, 50 seconds long Two separate stories, developed from my memories, playing simultaneously. Both stories are difficult to believe, exaggerated. The young girl climbing the tree is me and my experience when I was a child, and the man climbing the tower is a glass player I briefly saw in the streets of Venice. Each thing that plays a role in these stories are taken from different fragments of my memories, for example, the tower; I saw it whilst walking home one day, and was intrigued to what it was used for. I knew it was some kind of observation tower for someone to climb up, however I could not see anything surrounding it that needed to be watched over, nothing urgent like sinking ships or flood warnings. There was a gap to fill; what happens when the person reaches the top of this tower, what is the purpose of them being there? This is when my brain started imagining lots of different possible scenarios, many of the peculiar.

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Stuck in our nests, 2020

Pencil drawing, Square A1

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Singing Glasses

Some experiences that we witness in day to to day life don’t stop once we have walked past them; they have an after-life. Our brains instinctively replay and ponder them. I walked past the glass player haunted with disbelief, I couldn’t believe that the man rubbing his fingers around rims of glasses filled with water could create a song so angelic that it lit up his presence. I was wracking my brain re imagining the scene searching for a hidden speaker or alternative source of sound. Maybe this is due to me never being successful at making a sound round the rim of a glass. As a kid I told myself it was a well known magic trick I’ve just not been let in on, like whistling with a split blade of grass. 1 min long

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Catching Drips

He saw moonlight on the surface of the water. Projection into buckets, catching drips of water.

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Water Pipes that Sound like Thunder

Stills from animation, see my website for full film

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Ant Raft

Pencil drawing, square A1

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Price: ££60

This item is for sale, please contact for more information.

Ant Raft

Projection into bin filled with water

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Pause or Pay!

I, as a graduating student at the Glasgow School of Art, would like to state my support for the Pause or Pay Campaign. Please read the full manifesto here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MwdvZfLTp1udaASJ1EAmRT9XR-OPQIyU/view

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Stay Safe

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Kids with Sticks

A series of three short films, full duration 3 min. The power of imagination especially as a child can transform a stick into anything. The film 'Cornstacks' was based on the recollections of my 80 year old Granddad, he tells how as a child he used to be paid by the workers who farmed corn to kill the rats that lived under the corn stacks with sticks. The film 'Poo Sticks' also includes a fond memory of a game I used to play when I was younger, and 'Sword Fight' is an animation of a stick being carved into a sword. These are family memories that are shared over time; they are remembered because they mean something. They are allegories and cautionary tales; we don’t know what they mean and that is how we make them. The work was exhibited at Pig Rock Bothy, on the grounds of the Scottish National Gallery (modern one) in Edinburgh. To see more about this follow the link below.

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My current practice uses digital animation, I generate 3D computer images, in which I try to capture my emotion in my art and share an aesthetic experience.  My art is driven by a desire to recognise the way the world moves and how we feel it move with us.  My work and films explore people’s relationship to their own history and their perception of time, experience, and memory. Building emotional and poetic worlds in the digital inevitably provokes me to explore ideas of reality, the virtual and the imagined and what affect art has on perception.

 

I am drawn to people’s imagination and memories in all its possible potentials. Thoughts and memories only exists as visual traces in the individual’s minds; they are personal, we can tell stories of our perceptions, but we can never fully realise what is going on in our heads, when we explain it in words. Trying to recreate people’s memories by building something from scratch using computer software, where anything can be realised, however impractical, gives us the freedom to explore all the possibilities that pop up in people’s heads. By combining people’s imagined or remembered into a collective vision, presented as an animation, the vision will become more than the sum of its parts. It will demonstrate the potential of what new technology can offer; liberating and illuminating shared experience and bringing a single thing into the world that previously lived solely in people’s mind’s eye.

 

I like to explore childhood in my work and the freedom and naivety of children’s minds. I am fascinated by how the unknowing drives children to test things, like life and death, power and our place in the world. It is about touching the aesthetic world of feeling affect and emotion, and how do we do this is an unreal mythological, speculative way. When we are children we admit to the reasons behind our actions in an open and honest way, however as adults, we typically try justify our actions through practicality and reason, never purely for the sake of feeling and aesthetic experience.

 

My work seeks to make intimate and small gestures that cross private and shared space to live between the half imagined, the real and the virtual.

https://www.alice-pool.com/drawings

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The Locust

It is stuck in the fibres of a green cashmere sweater on a forgotten hot summers day.

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Things I've Seen

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Tall Stories

Animation, 50 seconds long Two separate stories, developed from my memories, playing simultaneously. Both stories are difficult to believe, exaggerated. The young girl climbing the tree is me and my experience when I was a child, and the man climbing the tower is a glass player I briefly saw in the streets of Venice. Each thing that plays a role in these stories are taken from different fragments of my memories, for example, the tower; I saw it whilst walking home one day, and was intrigued to what it was used for. I knew it was some kind of observation tower for someone to climb up, however I could not see anything surrounding it that needed to be watched over, nothing urgent like sinking ships or flood warnings. There was a gap to fill; what happens when the person reaches the top of this tower, what is the purpose of them being there? This is when my brain started imagining lots of different possible scenarios, many of the peculiar.

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Stuck in our nests, 2020

Pencil drawing, Square A1

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Singing Glasses

Some experiences that we witness in day to to day life don’t stop once we have walked past them; they have an after-life. Our brains instinctively replay and ponder them. I walked past the glass player haunted with disbelief, I couldn’t believe that the man rubbing his fingers around rims of glasses filled with water could create a song so angelic that it lit up his presence. I was wracking my brain re imagining the scene searching for a hidden speaker or alternative source of sound. Maybe this is due to me never being successful at making a sound round the rim of a glass. As a kid I told myself it was a well known magic trick I’ve just not been let in on, like whistling with a split blade of grass. 1 min long

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Catching Drips

He saw moonlight on the surface of the water. Projection into buckets, catching drips of water.

View Slideshow

Water Pipes that Sound like Thunder

Stills from animation, see my website for full film

View Slideshow

Ant Raft

Pencil drawing, square A1

Price: ££60

This item is for sale, please contact for more information.

View Slideshow

Ant Raft

Projection into bin filled with water

View Slideshow

Pause or Pay!

I, as a graduating student at the Glasgow School of Art, would like to state my support for the Pause or Pay Campaign. Please read the full manifesto here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MwdvZfLTp1udaASJ1EAmRT9XR-OPQIyU/view

View Slideshow

Stay Safe

View Slideshow

Kids with Sticks

A series of three short films, full duration 3 min. The power of imagination especially as a child can transform a stick into anything. The film 'Cornstacks' was based on the recollections of my 80 year old Granddad, he tells how as a child he used to be paid by the workers who farmed corn to kill the rats that lived under the corn stacks with sticks. The film 'Poo Sticks' also includes a fond memory of a game I used to play when I was younger, and 'Sword Fight' is an animation of a stick being carved into a sword. These are family memories that are shared over time; they are remembered because they mean something. They are allegories and cautionary tales; we don’t know what they mean and that is how we make them. The work was exhibited at Pig Rock Bothy, on the grounds of the Scottish National Gallery (modern one) in Edinburgh. To see more about this follow the link below.