Image: The Vision Splendid, 2009, Installation with bioreactor and living human tissue sculpture, 3m x 3m, Photograph; Artist
Alicia King
| Location: |
Tasmania |
| Origin: |
Queensland |
Alicia King is a cross-media artist whose practice spans sculpture, video, installation and biological technology, exploring the relationships between the physical, ethical and ritual body. Her work investigates biological permutations in the human, animal and ‘other’, and focuses on that which generally lies outside of the everyday category of the 'living'. In 2009 she was awarded a PhD, Transformations of the Flesh; Rupturing Embodiment through Biotechnology from the University of Tasmania. Her biotech practice has been assisted by SymbioticA and she is the recipient of numerous grants, awards and residencies, including from the Australia Council for the arts (OZCO), Arts Tasmania and the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT). King is the 2010 recipient of four months Residency at the Rosamond McCulloch Studio, Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, and will also undertake two month Residency in the Galapagos Archipelago in South America. She is a board member of Six_a ARI in North Hobart, and is part of the ongoing collaborative trio The Holy Trinity, with Mish Meijers and Tricky Walsh.
