Alice Workman is an art advisor and curator working with artists, collectors, and individuals shaping cultural projects and organisations. With over 25 years’ experience across public institutions and commercial galleries, she brings a deep curatorial background, extensive knowledge of artists, and a nuanced understanding of the art world.
Alice works closely with artists, offering strategic guidance, mentoring, exhibition and project support as well as advising collectors on acquisitions. She also collaborates with individuals developing cultural initiatives, drawing on long-standing experience in exhibition-making, institutional development, and partnership building.
Alice co-founded Bo Lee and Workman 2022 - 2025, a gallery dedicated to supporting emerging and mid-career artists. From 2011–2021, she served as Senior Director, Cultural Centres Europe at Hauser & Wirth, where her experience and vision was instrumental in the development of Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Hauser & Wirth Menorca, and the museum Chillida Leku. Earlier in her career, she led the exhibition programme at Southampton City Art Gallery and was the Director of the New Art Centre, Roche Court.
Throughout her career, Alice has organised over 250 exhibitions, collaborating closely with artists and estates such as Phyllida Barlow, Howard Hodgkin, Richard Long, Edmund de Waal, Jenny Holzer, the Estate of Barbara Hepworth, the Alexander Calder Foundation, and the Henry Moore Foundation. She has also developed education and residency programmes, contributed to publications, delivered talks and lectures, and participated in cultural projects as a Trustee of Spike Island and a Governor of Bath Spa University.
Current Projects
Kathryn Maple, Artist in Residence, Mount Street Neighbourhood Summer Festival
Kathryn Maple is artist in residence from 5 – 13 June as part of the third annual Mount Street Neighbourhood Summer Festival.
Drawing inspiration from the adjacent Mount Street Gardens, Kathryn Maple is working on an evolving collage and observational drawings that draw on the life, light and landscape of this historic Mayfair setting. Throughout the residency, Maple opens her studio practice to the public, where visitors can see her working in real time offering an audience a window into her process. Maple's works are distinctive for their intensely layered mark-making; built up surfaces, dense with urgency and familiarity.
The exhibited works span her current practice from intimate oil pastel studies and watercolours made in the parks and gardens of London, to large-scale mixed media works that layer paint and collage into immersive compositions. Figures move through many of these outdoor scenes, glimpsed among trees, caught mid-stride, grounding the work in a sense of lived, observed life.
