Some corner.

It’s already two weeks into my three month residency at the Curious Projects Space in Eastbourne, and if I am to write a blog about my experiences I’d better start sooner rather than later.
I wanted to begin by introducing myself. I’m Alice Lunt and have been making work for twenty-something years. I studied Sculpture at Brighton, graduating in 1993 with a First. During my student years I began making site-specific installations and one-to-one performances in alternative spaces.
After my Degree I moved back to London and completed an MA at Chelsea. This was a problematic year for me on many levels and I became disenchanted/confused/lost. The years that followed I would term “the Wilderness years”, a time in which I made work only sporadically. From 2000 onwards I began to concentrate on the Live art aspect of my work and was again working with momentum, when in2005 I became pregnant with my first child and chose to concentrate on being a Mother to her. My art practice up to that point had been implicitly concerned with the Mother-Child relationship in particular and with other interpersonal relationships behind closed doors and in the name of love, in general.
I withdrew to Brighton and immersed myself in family life and it wasn’t until the miscarriage of my third child and the break-down of my marriage that I began to make work again. I have to admit, pain inspires me like nothing else.
So, my work is still about that pain found in human relationships when we profess to “love”, to “care for”. Not necessarily in an explicit way. Nor is the rage and disappointment for-grounded in the work; rather it runs like an undercurrent through it; both in the way I handle objects and materials and in the kinds of one-to-one encounters I choose to initiate in my performances. I am interested in the oscillation between violence and tenderness that occurs in intimacy, in interaction with others and with things-as-metaphors-for-others-and-self.