Alice Instone makes paintings concerned with gender and power and frequently depicts influential or well known public figures. She started working as an artist in 2005.
Her work is held in several public collections and has been sponsored by Ernst & Young and Herbert Smith. She was selected as a Woman of Achievement 2010 by Woman of the Year and Jenni Murray interviewed her for Radio 4′s Woman’s Hour in 2009.
Her solo shows include The House of Commons, The House of St Barnabas Soho Square, The Royal Society of Arts, and Northampton Museum. She has worked with Annie Lennox, Emilia Fox, Baronesses Kennedy, Scotland and Greenfield, Laura Bailey, Elle Macpherson, Bianca Jagger, Sir Peter Blake, Beverley Knight, Baron Woolf, Alice Temperley, Jo Wood, Pattie Boyd, Shami Chakrabarti, Nicole Farhi, Sir David Hare, Dame Evelyn Glennie, Dame Jackie Wilson, and Cherie Blair amongst others.
