Alicia Bruce

Alicia Bruce is an Edinburgh-based photographer, lecturer and freelance educator.[1]

Alicia Bruce
Born1979
Aberdeen
EducationEdinburgh Napier University
Known forPhotography
Websitehttps://aliciabruce.co.uk/

Early life and education

Bruce was born in Aberdeen in 1979.[2] She studied Photography, Film and Imaging at Edinburgh Napier University, graduating in 2006.[2]

Career

Bruce's work focuses on the collaboration between artist and sitter in portrait photography. Her most recent projects have involved communities, such as ‘Menie: A portrait of a North East community in conflict’.[3] Alongside her work as a practicing photographer, Bruce is a lecturer in photography at Stevenson College and a freelance educator at the National Galleries of Scotland.[2]

She has worked on several commissions and campaigns, including those from: Edinburgh World Heritage, NewsDirect, National Galleries of Scotland, Royal Scottish Academy, University of St Andrews, The European Parliament, NHS, V&A Dundee.[4]

She won the Royal Scottish Academy Morton Award in 2014.[5]

Selected solo exhibitions

2018 ‘Violence Unseen’ Stills, Edinburgh, UK (Touring commission for Zero Tolerance)

2016 ‘Menie: TRUMPED’ St Andrews Photography Festival, UK[6]

2015 ‘The Sim Project’, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK[7]

2015 ‘Digging for Diamonds’, EU Buildings, Brussels, Belgium

2013 ‘Encore’ Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, Cardiff, Part of Diffusion Festival

2013 ‘Menie’ The Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, UK[8]

2008 ‘Alicia Bruce: Artist in Residence’, Aberdeen Art Centre, Aberdeen, UK

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Collections

Bruce's work is held at: University of St Andrews Photography Collection,[9] National Galleries of Scotland, Robert Mapplethorpe Photography Collection, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh Napier University Photography Collection, Ffotogallery, Dovecot Studios, Zero Tolerance, and various private collections.[4]

Publications
  • Menie: Trumped. Daylight books, 2023.

References
  1. "Alicia Bruce | European Prospects". www.europeanprospects.org. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  2. "Alicia Bruce | National Galleries of Scotland". www.nationalgalleries.org. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  3. Coomes, Phil (19 July 2012). "Two photographers focus on Menie". Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  4. "About". Alicia Bruce. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  5. "Photographer Alicia Bruce wins RSA Morton Award 2014 – a-n The Artists Information Company". Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  6. Fraser, Graham (6 September 2016). "The community that Donald Trump changed forever". Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  7. "In pictures: The Sim Project". BBC News. BBC. 1 May 2015. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  8. Kelly, Suzanne (2013). "In Conversation With Alicia Bruce – Part 1". Aberdeen Voice. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  9. "Search Results". www.st-andrews.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
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