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Alice Adler
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Alice Adler
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Alice Adler
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Alice Adler
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Alice Adler
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Alice Adler
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Alice Adler

Ceramicist

Marrickville, Australia

A soft touch to bold colours

  • Alice experiments with stains, grog and slip to create light, precise pieces
  • Her work features clean lines and proportions influenced by her graphic design background
  • She carefully considers colour to create luminous combinations

Alice Adler is an Anglo-Australian ceramicist whose path from graphic design and jewellery to ceramics was sparked by a single class that revealed her love for clay. After years of teaching art, she trained intensively at Forest Row School of Ceramics, developing several signature techniques inspired by the processes she learned during her training. Alice's hand built pieces feature precise geometric forms, delicate inlaid lines, and velvety, paper-like surfaces honed through meticulous sanding. Influenced by architecture, weaving and textiles, her methodical approach achieves quiet harmony. "Colour is central to my practice. I explore tones through careful staining of the clay, producing pieces that glow from within," Alice says.

Alice Adler is a rising star: she began her career in 2023.

INTERVIEW

I originally studied jewellery, but metal never really clicked for me. It was not until I moved to the UK in 2022 and took an intense, hands-on ceramic course that I really found my rhythm and process.

When I lived in Bristol, my studio was surrounded by pastel housing blocks, windows cutting perfect shapes through colour. That geometry stayed with me. I also use the Dictionary of Colour Combinations and endless test tile combinations to find harmony.

I developed a nerikomi-inspired effect with coloured porcelain by process of elimination: stamping, cutting, filling with liquid slip, until the shapes stayed crisp. I have also developed a sanding process to avoid glazing entirely, creating surfaces that are butter-soft.

Ceramics cannot be rushed. I have to be methodical as there are so many elements to my work. I weigh out my colour stains with scales, and I add ingredients to my clay for workability. The process is slow, precise, a little bit mad, but very enjoyable.