b. 1996, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, UK; lives and works in London, UK.

Alice Fraser’s paintings explore ideas of hysteric expression in an exhibitionist yet jarring manner, where desire is entangled within layers of bureaucracy. Akin to the role-playing dynamics in Dungeons and Dragons where pure fantasy meets the profane negotiation of rules, Fraser has characterised this impulse and reality as a ‘chaotic good’. Informed by Lacanian psychology, particularly Jacques Lacan’s notion that ‘there is no such thing as a relationship’ - his infamous statement that suggests humans never desire to have sex for the sake of sex and instead, the sexual impulse hides an ulterior hidden desire; for recognition, for social status, for transgression, for validation - Fraser's practice delves into a particular vulnerability and resistance to this idea. Her art is hyperbolic, avoidant and humorous, yet earnest, and often plays with language to expose its hierarchies by saying less and more at once.

Fraser’s work is deeply romantic, examining the excesses of love while maintaining a shabby, colloquial arrogance in approach and aesthetic. She explores the limitations of hysteria and excess, using performative, playful methods to challenge the bureaucratic context of art and its conventions of taste and style. Leaning into hyperbolic text, trickster imagery, and sexual optical illusion, Fraser continually expands her investigation into language, identity, and emotional excess...