Alice Hackney

Alice Hackney cares about the connection between people and the landscapes that surround them. Working at the intersection of ecology, femininity and disability, she combines labour and precision with ideas of homeland and community to make herself a place within the systems around her. Her work weaves printmaking, performance, textiles, cartography and installation, frequently incorporating collections of found natural materials such as sheep’s fleece, feathers, wood and cuttlefish bones. She is particularly fond of 'useless' materials and subjects: the devalued sheep’s fleece, the pigeon - once prized for its homing abilities, and her own fatigued body. Hackney playfully and painfully reflects on the unhelpful and unnatural boundaries imposed on bodies and landscapes. Drawing on her childhood surrounded by sheep in rural Derbyshire, she collates her lived experience of chronic illness with discourses of land ownership, access, and usage.
Hackney holds a First Class BFA in Fine Art from The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford (St John’s College) and a Distinction from her Art Foundation at Manchester School of Art. She has undertaken residencies with The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities' Art Biodiversity and Climate Network (2019-21), UK New Artists (2022-3) and No Jobs In the Arts (2025). She is the current recipient of the Toby O'Brien Bursary at Newlyn School of Art. She is also a Printmaking Tutor at the Bodleian Libraries and Christ Church, University of Oxford, and a Producer for Adults & Communities at Modern Art Oxford. She works both from her studio with Fusion Arts in Oxford, and her home in Charlesworth, Derbyshire.
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