Alicia Bruce
Teaching Fellow
- Edinburgh College of Art, School of Fine Art
- Centre for Open Learning
Contact details
- Email: abruce33@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Edinburgh College of Art,
Main Building,
74 Lauriston Pl, - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH3 9DF
- Street
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Centre for Open Learning,
Holyrood Campus,
University of Edinburgh, - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 8AQ.
Background
Alicia Bruce is an award winning, working-class artist, photographer, community collaborator and activist. Her photography sits between documentary and staged imagery with an interest in local and global communities. She tells humane co-authored stories of people and place often looking through the history of art for visual referencing. Within the communities Bruce collaborates within she is interested in environmental issues, portraiture, human rights, equality, equity, feminism, politics of space, territories and heritage.
She is winner of Lishui Photography Festival Expert Recommended Photographer Award, Royal Scottish Academy Morton Award and more.
Alicia’s recent monograph ‘I Burn But I Am Not Consumed’ (Daylight Books, 2023) documents sixteen years of Donald Trump’s impact on Menie, a coastal Scottish community from 2006 until present day was internationally acclaimed.
Her photographs are held in several public collections including National Galleries of Scotland, University of St Andrews, RSA, Martin Parr Foundation, Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago) and UK Parliament.
She has exhibited internationally including National Galleries of Scotland, VU Photo (Quebec), Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago), Stills (Edinburgh), Street Level Photoworks (Glasgow), Ffotogallery (Cardiff), Lishui Museum (China), Open Eye Gallery (Liverpool), Scotland House (Brussels),The Scottish Parliament and UK Parliament.
Commissioned work is directly linked to her practice often involving editorial commissions, charitable campaigns or political organisations for campaign, exhibition and publication.
Recent campaigns and commissions include Harpers Magazine, Zero Tolerance, RECLAIM Network, Crisis and NHS Lothians.
Recent guest lectures and teaching include:
Aberdeen Art Gallery
Centre for British Photography
Falmouth University
International Centre for Photography (ICP), New York
Martin Parr Foundation
Royal Photographic Society
Sewanee University of the South
School of The Art Institute of Chicago
School of Visual Art (SVA), New York
University of Falmouth
Stills, Edinburgh
Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow
Yale University
Qualifications
BA (Hons) Photography Film and Imaging
Responsibilities & affiliations
Represented by Women Photograph
The Travelling Gallery, Advisory Committee
Women Photograph (Global Network of Female Photographers)
POST, Making Motherhood Visible (Photographers Collective)
Engage: National Association of Gallery Education (2010 – 2017) Freelance Specialist Interest Rep on Engage Council and Engage Scotland Development Group
National Union of Journalists
Scottish Artists Union
Trace Mentorship Programme (UK)
Undergraduate teaching
Alicia teaches across the Fine Art - BA (Hons) programme for Art in Practice and Contemporary Artistic Research
She is a joint Course Organiser for Black and White Photographic Practice, The Portrait
Alicia also teaches short courses in Photography for Centre for Open Learning and is founder of Portobello Photography School.
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Areas of interest for supervision
Undertaking PhD supervision training