Alice von Maltzahn

Alice von Maltzahn’s work looks closely at our natural environment. Her work draws inspiration from her personal experience of having grown up in the countryside, whilst exploring themes of mapping, time and memory, largely through the medium of paper.

There’s something familiar about the forms and patterns of her work and at the same time there’s an ambiguity which leaves the reading of them open. Just as memory can be slippery, what we see is shape shifting; one recognised thing and then another, interwoven and multi layered.

There is a clear sense of time and process described in the detail and construction of each work. Densely layered paper works create sculptural planes that seek to re-animate the material whilst large scale installations enliven the spaces they inhabit.