Alice Thompson’s practice refers to the transitional and fleeting stages in our lifetime and the cast aside nature of clothing. Working with the medium of knit, she references clothes becoming outgrown in certain stages like maternity, by stretching the knitting over frames or repurposed structures. Often knitting on a loose tension so the physical line of the knitted row is seen, specific colour combinations overlap to evoke snippets of memory.

Alice is a Technical Instructor in Yarn at the Royal College of Art and Tutor in Machine Knitting at Working Men’s College.


EDUCATION

BA (Hons) Textile Design, Chelsea College of Arts, London, 2019

International Student Exchange Program: Textile Design, Tama Art University, Tokyo, 2017

Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Camberwell College of Arts, London, 2015


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2025

Knoll Yarns, Pitti Immagine Filati, Florence, Italy

Seven Rows, 81 King’s Road, London, UK

Disobedient Objects, Electro Studios Project Space, St Leonards on Sea, UK

The Fabric of Being, Seeing Loud Gallery, London, UK

2024

Textile Junction, Electro Studios Project Space, St Leonards on Sea, UK

2023

Threads - A Celebration of Textiles, Sunny Bank Mills, Leeds, UK

2022

The Knot, 146 Bethnal Green Road, London, UK

Happy Go Lucky, Bow Arts, London, UK

The London Open: Artists Takeover, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK

Artists for Ukraine, 16 Nicholson Street, Glasgow, UK

Assemble, V.O Curations, London, UK

2020

Pride Muse, Online Resource by Reece Higham

2019

BA Degree Show, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK

Material Solutions, Nike World Headquarters, Beaverton, Oregon, USA




WORKSHOPS

2025

Lead Facilitator, Colèchi, You Can Knit With Us (YKWU) X Upgrade Yourself Festival,

Somerset House, London, UK

2023

Lead artist: Loop by loop, stitch by stitch: Knitting Workshop, Whitechapel Gallery, London

What Now? The Graduate Survival Guide, Sarabande Foundation, London, UK

2022

Lead artist: Colèchi, YKWU (You can Knit With Us), The Lighthouse & Gardens Stratford, London, UK

Colèchi, YKWU X Saatchi Gallery: Designers at Work, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK


PRESS

Room & Board: A visit to decorator Marshall Neve’s apartment in New York City’s

Chinatown
, Will Brodie Davidson, Scenery, Number Three, p. 58-71, 2025

Guest Edit: Melanie Raines, AucArt, August 2023

Guest Edit : Alison Damote, AucArt, June 2023

V.O Curations - Assemble, London Art Round Up, Issue 04, January 2022

Mycelium Books by Joacim Jorba Nilsson, First Edition, 2022


TALKS

Mayfair Art Weekend, V.O Curations, London, UK - July 2023


TEACHING

Technical Instructor in Textiles Yarn Resource, Royal College of Art, London - 2024 to present

Tutor in Machine Knitting, Working Men’s College, London - 2023 to present

Fashion and Textiles Technician, Working Men’s College, London - 2023 to present

 

 

 

Photo by Olivia Blyth