It’s such good snooping…. an exhibition by the artist Alice Instone offers a peek into the day-to-day lives of Cherie Blair, Emma Freud and Shami Chakrabarti in their own words…”as an artist I’m interested in mark making… they’re people’s real writing, scribbling; they’re more alive than a lot of drawings”. Yet she also thinks of them as tiny, candid portraits, a sort of opposite to the Instagram edit of someone’s life, with all the tedious, incidental details intact… Instone’s interest in the imbalance of domestic work… - a position borne out by my own unscientific study at the office - is a continuation of the artists’s long-held fascination with women and power.
– Nancy Durrant, The Times
Alice’s exhibitions have been extensively featured in a broad and diverse range of high profile media, typically reaching UK and international audiences of millions and generating thousands of pieces of coverage across TV, radio, print, social media and online outlets. These have included numerous double page spreads in The Times, The Observer, The Independent, The Guardian, The Standard, The Telegraph and more, by arts editors and journalists including Nancy Durrant, Caitlin Moran, India Knight and Kate Kellaway.
Alice’s recent show was ‘Top Five Exhibitions to See This Week’ in The Standard for its entire run and received over 700 visitors a day during its three week run. Alice has made several appearances on Radio 4 Woman’s Hour, also The Chris Evans Radio 2 Breakfast Show and Jenny Eclair for Radio 4. Additional media includes Vogue, Elle, Harpers Bazaar, BBC Radio London, BBC TV and The Huffington Post amongst many others.
