Alice Robinson (b. 1984, Hobart, Tasmania) is an Australian artist whose practice centres on painting as a form of lived philosophy, memory, and attention. Working primarily in oil on unstretched, artist-primed canvas, Robinson’s work explores impermanence, grief, resilience, and quiet continuity through intimate, observational imagery drawn from lived experience.
Her visual language is informed by Taoist and Buddhist philosophy, as well as long-standing engagement with the I Ching, not as symbolic illustration but as a way of understanding movement, balance, and change within everyday life. Rather than constructing narratives, Robinson allows meaning to emerge through process, rhythm, and atmosphere — where painting becomes a form of noticing rather than declaring.
Robinson’s early artistic influence was her mother, a landscape painter, whose death in Robinson’s childhood shaped her relationship to memory, impermanence, and making. She began exhibiting at 17 in Hobart, later exhibiting in Melbourne and regional New South Wales, and continues to work alongside full-time employment in the funeral industry — a context that deeply informs her sensitivity to presence, loss, and ritual.
Her work is characterised by restraint, tonal depth, and emotional quietude, often created in early morning light, and grounded in sincerity rather than spectacle. Robinson’s paintings function as contemplative spaces — places where personal memory, shared human experience, and philosophical inquiry meet without hierarchy.
She lives and works in northern New South Wales, Australia.