Alicia Felberbaum
Alicia Felberbaum is a multidisciplinary artist and designer based in London, with an MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London (1994). Over several decades, her practice has evolved from an early focus on video art—exhibited internationally—into digital design, material experimentation, and contemporary jewellery. This cross-disciplinary approach continues to shape her work today. Her practice seeks to dissolve the boundaries between art and design, craft and code, exploring how contemporary tools can embody both the weight of personal history and the immediacy of gesture.
Rooted in a lifelong engagement with drawing, her current body of work investigates the convergence of analogue mark-making and digital processes. She creates limited-edition digital prints that probe visual rhythm, materiality, and the perceptual effects of colour. Inspired in part by David Hockney’s early use of digital media in his 2011 Royal Academy exhibition, she treats technology not as a substitute for traditional methods but as an extension of the artist’s hand.
Constructed Landscapes, a series of work to be exhibited at Highgate Art Fair, brings these ideas together in a series of prints that merge sites which could never coexist, creating imagined terrains that unfold beyond geography and time. Each image becomes a microcosm — a “placeless place” where the real and the illusory intertwine.
Rather than depicting a fixed location, the work evokes an experience of transformation — a fluid space shaped by memory, perception, and imagination. Within these hybrid landscapes, genuine spaces are exposed, while new possibilities for what a landscape can be begin to emerge.
Her recent works depict abstract forms that appear to float or drift, evoking weightlessness, transience, and suspended motion. Influenced by water, sound, and natural cycles, these compositions layer digital brushstrokes, scanned photographs, and graphic marks to create a shifting landscape of movement and stillness. Attention to process remains central: each piece emerges through iterative experimentation and meticulous exploration of colour, balancing digital precision with the tactile sensitivity of hand-drawn gesture.