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
2019 - BA Honours, Textile Design, Chelsea College of Arts, London
2017 - International Student Exchange Program: Textile Design, Tama Art University, Tokyo
Selected Exhibitions
2025 - Seven Rows, 81 King’s Road, London
2025 - Disobedient Objects, Electro Studios Project Space, St Leonards on Sea
2025 - The Fabric of Being, Seeing Loud Gallery, London
2024 - Textile Junction, Electro Studios Project Space, St Leonards on Sea
2023 - Threads - A Celebration of Textiles, Sunny Bank Mills, Leeds
2022 - Happy Go Lucky, Bow Arts, London
2022 - The Knot, 146 Bethnal Green Road, London
2022 - The London Open: Artists Takeover, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2022 - Artists for Ukraine, 16 Nicholson Street, Glasgow
2022 - Assemble, V.O Curations, London
2020 - Pride Muse, Online Resource by Reece Higham
2019 - BA Degree Show, Chelsea College of Arts, London
2019 - Material Solutions, Nike World Headquarters, Beaverton, Oregon
Workshops & Talks
2023 - Lead artist: Loop by loop, stitch by stitch: Knitting Workshop, Whitechapel Gallery
2023 - What Now? The Graduate Survival Guide 2023, Sarabande Foundation, London
2023 - Mayfair Art Weekend, V.O Curations, London
2022 - Colèchi, YKWU, The Lab E20, London
2022 - Colèchi, YKWU X Saatchi Gallery: Designers at Work, Saatchi Gallery, London
Teaching
Since 2024 - Technical Instructor in Textiles Yarn Resource, Royal College of Art
Since 2023 - Tutor, Machine Knitting, Working Men's College
Media
2023 - AucArt, Guest Edit : Melanie Raines
2022 - London Art Round Up, V.O Curations - Assemble, Issue 04
Photo by Olivia Blyth