ALICE WOODHOUSE

The house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace... A graduate of Kingston University (BA Fine Art, 2013), I am a psychogeographer. I have always been one - I just never had a word for it. I want to walk where no one else has walked; I want to crawl into the spaces that no one can fit into or has thought to try. I want to see what's behind that closed door, down that dark little alley. I'm drawn to the old, the forgotten, the boarded up, the left to rot - that dilapidated old shack that no one wants. I like to note the feeling a place gives and the memories it holds, the traces people have left there: stains on the walls, holes in the floors, and peeled back paint that exposes old brickwork. It is here I find my inspiration, as a setting for an urban fairy-tale. By investing time into these places they can be preserved, their beauty captured in a drawing.

Primary location: United Kingdom