31st March 2026
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM 
Zoom
£5.00 (plus booking fee) Tickets

We are delighted to host a talk by Alicia Bruce, she is an award winning, working-class artist, photographer, community collaborator and activist. Her photography sits between documentary and staged imagery with an interest in local and global communities. She tells humane co-authored stories of people and place often looking through the history of art for visual referencing. Within the communities Bruce collaborates within she is interested in environmental issues, portraiture, human rights, equality, equity, feminism, politics of space, territories and heritage.

Alicia’s recent monograph‘I Burn But I Am Not Consumed’(Daylight Books, 2023) documents sixteen years of Donald Trump’s impact on Menie, a coastal Scottish community from 2006 until present day was internationally acclaimed. The book was co-authored with the residents of Menie.

Her photographs are held in several public collections including National Galleries of Scotland, University of St Andrews, RSA, Martin Parr Foundation, Museum of Contemporary Photography(Chicago) and UK Parliament.

She has exhibited internationally including Format Festival (Derby),National Galleries of Scotland, VU Photo (Quebec), Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago), Stills(Edinburgh), Street Level Photoworks (Glasgow), Ffotogallery (Cardiff), Lishui Museum (China),Open Eye Gallery (Liverpool), Scotland House (Brussels), The Scottish Parliament and UK Parliament.

Commissioned work is directly linked to her practice often involving editorial commissions, charitable campaigns or political organisations for campaign, exhibition and publication including Zero Tolerance, Wall Street Journal and NHS. Alicia is a member of Women Photograph and POST Photography Collective.

31st March 2026
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM 
Zoom
£5.00 (plus booking fee) Tickets

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