Alice Rose

Ceramic artist Alice Rose creates pottery vases exploring perspective and illusion. Her works draw in the viewer with their compelling mirage effects and offer a playful experience.

Alice Rose creates her works by applying the principles of 3 dimensional perspective drawing and painting found on the 2 dimensional plane, to a flattened 3 dimensional cast form. She then uses conventions of light, shadow and perspective to decorate the form as a painting. The artist works in monocular vision to reduce depth perception so the illusion of her work is enhanced when viewed with one eye shut. As the artist describes, "The vase is a drawing or painting of itself and like a picture, has an ideal viewpoint."

Alice Rose studied Art and Design in Ceramics at Medway College of Art in Rochester, Kent. For a number of years she worked as a commercial artist before moving to New Zealand and eventually settling in Dunedin. She exhibits her work in select galleries around New Zealand.