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Aliki Braine

ARTIST STATEMENT:

"It is the wilful refusal to deliver a conventionally complete or clearly described picture that characterises Aliki Braine's work, compounded by the equally wilful damage imposed on her films and prints" wrote John Hilliard in the catalogue that accompanied Aliki Braine's show "Hands On" Aliki’s primary impulse is in exploring how a photograph can be transformed into an object. Often cutting, drawing with ink, punching holes or overlaying the negatives with adhesive labels, she violates the pristine surface of the photograph forcing the viewer to look towards the texture of the photographic paper and opens up a new understanding of the photographic process and image making. Through her methodology of blocking, erasing and obscuring parts of the image she unsettles our understanding of what is familiar. She teases us with recognisable symbols and visual references that appear to provide us with a certainty of what we are looking at. But we left to ask; is this a landscape? Is this a photograph?

Aliki works as both an artist and lecturer. Having studied for her BFA in Fine Art at Ruskin School, Oxford University followed by an MA at The Slade School of Fine Art Aliki then went to the Courtauld Institute to do an MA in the History of Art. This grounding in both the practice and theory of art is combined in her work as she draws upon the recurrent themes of the historical painted landscape.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

BOOKS

“Alternative Photographic Processes; Crafting Handmade Images” by Brady Wilks

Published by Focal Press, 2015

“Post-Photography: The Artist With a Camera” by Robert Shore

Published by Laurence King, 2014

EITHER/AND

Online Debate and Shared Perspectives on Photography

Photography’s New Materiality - Aliki Braine: Works

Hosted by The National Media Museum

WE ARE DADÁ

Aliki Braine: The Disruption of the Conventional