Alice Lenkiewicz, UK

 

 

Video   Marilyn's Grid                  Make a Smilebox slideshow About Alice Lenkiewicz, UK   Alice Lenkiewicz is a practising artist and poet who lives in Liverpool. She was born in 1964, Devon and brought up in Plymouth. From an early age she was interested in writing and art. Her father,the artist, Robert Lenkiewicz introduced her to an eclectic world of painting, fairytales and books on the occult. These experiences have always initiated her own interests in the esoteric, magical realism and popular culture,  inspiring her to persue her individual style and voice in Art and Poetry. She later studied these subjects in more depth at Edge Hill University gaining a BA hons 1st in Art & Design and English as well as an MA in Writing Studies. In 2005 her final thesis, a book of illustrations, poems and prose, ‘Maxine’ was published by Bluechrome Publishing. Her first debut collection of poems and illustrations, Men Hate Blondes is due to be published by Original Plus. Alice's poems have been published in the journals, Stride,Pages, Smoke, Peggy's Blue Skylight, Fire, The People’s Poet, Marymark Press, The anthology, 'Listening to the Birth of Crystals', The Other Voices Project, Erbacce and The Journal. Cd’s and sound projects include: Clubbing, Men Hate Blondes, Oval Blue, Blacestonia, Poems from Maxine and Points of Reference. Alice edits the poetry magazine Neon Highway. She set this up in 2002 and has organised various poetry readings with local and guest poets throughout the city of Liverpool. Guests have included Allen Fisher and Phil Davenport at the Walker Art Gallery, Steve Sneyd at the Planetarium, Bill Griffiths in the Hornby Room at Central Library, Geraldine Monk at 33-45 Club, Women's Poetry at the Bluecoat Arts Centre and a performance on the Credit Crunch at Tate Liverpool as well as many others. Information on Neon Highway can be found on the facebook group. Further information on Alice and her work can be found on the links below: http://www.myspace.com/alicelenkiewicz http://www.facebook.com/alice.lenkiewicz http://www.saatchigallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile.php/Alice+Lenkiewicz/105737.html http://twitter.com/LandofAlice