Alice McAuliffe

Born: Sydney, NSW

Lives and works: Central Coast & Sydney, NSW

Artist Statement

Concrete Carpet -Berry, 2025
Pavement paint and glass beads

Concrete Carpet -Berry is one in a series of decorative carpet inspired patterns rendered onto everyday footpaths. This pattern, rendered outside Berry School of Arts, references Regency design, common in England in 1822, the time of European colonisation of Wodi Wodi Country. Regency design appropriated motifs from throughout European history, disassociating them from their original contexts and amalgamating them in new combinations for decorative purposes. Likewise, the design of Concrete Carpet – Berry was constructed from an internet based ‘grand tour’ combining imagery from Egyptian, Etruscan, Italian Renaissance and Baroque cultural periods. It renders a veneer of decorative aesthetics on the everyday environment inviting audiences to walk consciously along the footpath and, in turn, on Country.

About the Artist

Alice McAuliffe is an artist, creative producer and arts health manager specialising in community engagement, enhancing everyday spaces to encourage audiences to engage playfully and thoughtfully with their environment. Having spent five years living in Italy, her work is influenced by the decorative aesthetics of historic European cultures.

Alice will be conducting a free, family-friendly drop-in workshop from 12-2pm on Saturday - on the footpath across the road from the School of Arts.