Alice Geldenhuys (b.2000) works and lives in London. ​

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'Alice Geldenhuys starts with a figure. That’s where it all starts, always. From the Life Room to the

Salon, painting is about the body and its traces. Trying to chase the image of itself, here to there,

you to me, subject to object, gaze to image.

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Working light, thin paint in quick movements, producing milky veils, chalky colours, thin wash, you

can see the routes the brushes have passed over. Sometimes painting with the image balanced

on her knee. Focusing on the body, the figure, the thing in front of us. Focusing on the quality and

feel of the paint. Movement, physicality, energy. Turning, shifting, moving the image around and

around until - it all clicks into place.

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And when it does, that’s it! Everything slots into place, settles down. Chasing a feeling, a specific

kind of moment in movement, a slice of the action. Like when you raise your hands high and

stretch. Bend your body over and flop down against yourself. Exhaustion, release, collapse.

Holding it within the image, frozen, yes! Stretching back, feeling the movement in your joint,

cracking a knuckle, fluid release, hitting that vagal nerve wide open. Right until it gets to that point

where everything just clicks into place.'

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Zarina Muhammad, writer and art critic, @thewhitepube

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Education

​​​The Essential School of Painting, Advanced Painting, London 2023 -2025,  Young Painter's Scholarship

Leith School of Art, The Painting Year, Edinburgh 2021 - 2023

University of Bristol, History First-Class Bachelor of Arts

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