Rooms
Remembered
Alice Marden
30th July - 9th August
2026
Alice Marden (b. 2005) lives and works on Gadigal Land, Sydney, Australia. She has completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the National Art School, Darlinghurst, majoring in Printmedia (2025), and is currently completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) expected in 2026.
Across printmaking, painting and installation, Marden investigates the body’s encounter with constructed space. Her work presents architecture not as a passive setting, but as a force that directs gesture and movement. Through moments of tension between physical freedom and structural constraint, she reveals the subtle adjustments through which people occupy, navigate and understand their surroundings.
Marden’s work has appeared in group exhibitions including Printmakers Show at Tiliqua Tiliqua Gallery, Enmore (2024); Bird in Hand at Leichhardt Gallery (2024); and The Divide at Alpha House Gallery (2025). Her private commissions include landscape paintings for collectors in Jasper’s Brush and Vaucluse (2025), as well as a restaurant mural for The Velvet Grove (2023). She has also participated in collaborative projects, including the 20 × 20 cm Exchange Portfolio in Sydney.
Our bodies are constantly navigating through space, engaging in a dance with obstacles and paths that surround us. Architecture, in its quiet authority, inscribes itself on our bodies. We duck under beams, align with walls, and pass through frames; we contort and adapt the spatial rules around us. Subconsciously, our bodies ask, How do I stand in relation to what is imposing on me, and how does my body transform to it.
A faint tiled interior and a dampened hallway sit just beneath the surface, absorbed by the layer that behaves like skin. The waxy, translucent surface laid bare on the cold metal surface becomes a membrane, something that both covers and records contact. Colour moves across the works the way it moves across a body, catching on the green and yellow hues beneath the skin, suggesting the body's inner mechanisms.
Through the active technique of screen-printing, I was able to emphasise the tactility and the residue of ‘movement’ explored in the photographs. The print becomes an analogue to skin, capable of receiving pressure, holding memory, or wearing its own deterioration. In this way, the work collapses distinctions between interior and exterior, structure and flesh.