Alice Wormald makes paintings which develop alongside a process of image collection, fragmentation and collage. Using imagery from books, magazines and her own photographs, her works are conversations with and within the painted surface and draw in references from thinking around illusion, abstraction and image-based culture. The works embody the idea of painting as a puzzle, each piece interacting by some unseen logic and overlapping and intersecting to create its own distinct rhythm. 

Using pictures from books, magazines and my own photographs, the works are conversations with and within the painted surface. They embody the idea of painting as a puzzle, each piece interacting by an unseen logic and overlapping and intersecting to create its own distinct rhythm. -  Alice Wormald

Wormald has held numerous solo exhibitions in Melbourne and Sydney and has exhibited in art fairs, ARIs and public galleries since graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2011. Her work won the Bayside Art Prize in 2023 and has been a finalist in many prizes including Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, John Leslie Prize, Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Bayside Aquisitive Art Prize and Albany Art Prize. Her work is held in numerous collections including Artbank, Macquarie Group Collection, Australian Catholic University, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Darebin City Council, Gippsland Art Gallery, Joyce Nissan Collection, Fiona Myer Collection and Private collections.