Alice Andrea Ewing is an artist and founder-sculptor living and working in Suffolk, UK. In 2016, she and artist Freddy Morris established their own studio and foundry in the county, run as a family atelier. She leads the craft-design studio Pomarius.
Ewing’s work explores notions of place, ecological value, presence and embodiment through an intimate relationship with materials and process. Working as a founder-sculptor, the majority of her work is produced using the Renaissance Investment Casting process. Her proximity to the medium and all processes within it is an integral aspect of her practice.
Her larger sculptural works attempt 'to make the quick long', translating sketches and informal cartographies into bronze through an adaptation of the Lost Wax technique.
Her studio Pomarius looks to make explicit the inherent value of the natural/non-human world through ongoing site-specific residencies and sculptural outcomes. The resulting pieces are unique casts of produce/flora from gardens and locations around the UK, translating the organic specimens into solid bronze. The value imbued by this process and material is already evident to the caretakers and custodians of these sites.
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Through Pomarius and her general sculptural practice, Ewing has exhibited nationally and internationally with pieces in a number of private collections, including the Loewe Craft Foundation.
In 2021 she collaborated with fashion label Loewe under creative director Jonathan Anderson for the SS21 and FW21 collections, producing sculptures and a limited edition jewellery collection. She has worked with English Heritage's Audley End House (Saffron Walden) and Wildland Estate's Aldourie Castle (Loch Ness) on new sculpture collections connected to both sites. Previous commissions and Pomarius collaborations include those for The Newt in Somerset, Soho Farmhouse, The Chancery Rosewood (London) and Heckfield Place (Hampshire). She has produced private commissions through David Linley and Foster Lomas Architects. In 2023-24 she undertook private commissions for the Roux Waterside Inn (Windsor) and Gerbou (Dubai) through Design consultancy Tashkeel.
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At present, Ewing and the Pomarius studio are working with JW Anderson on a design series for director Luca Guadagino.
Ewing's work is currently available through Lyndsey Ingram, London; The Merchant's Table, Suffolk; L'Oeil de KO, Paris; and Berdoulat, Bath, with other listings for Pomarius pieces on the studios's dedicated website. Pieces for the JWA series are available exclusively through the JWA Pimlico store at present.
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Awards include A-N Time Space Money Bursary Award 2020; The BASET Endeavour Award 2019, The British-Australia Society; Hill End AIR, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW Australia 2019; Selected Artist for TOAST Works of the Heart Campaign 2017; and selected CRAFT Brand/Trader at Top Drawer 2019 for Pomarius.
Ewing's sculptures have appeared in CRAFT magazine, The World of Interiors, The Telegraph, and were featured in the Financial Times 2022 HTSI.
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Participation + Community Engagement
Since 2014, she has designed and delivered a participatory and educational sculpture programme, the Portable Foundry Project. Details on projects not listed on this website can be found on that site.
Other participatory and community work includes the role of Director of Jetty Lane C.I.C 2016-17 [a community initiative in Woodbridge, Suffolk, established to secure the lease and re-building of the local Arts and Youth Centre] and Co-founder of Contaɪnər Projects 2021, a creative community resource and response to Covid-19 supported by East Suffolk Council, in collaboration with artists May Cornet and Emily Richardson.
Beginning with the pilot project in 2022, Ewing delivered the Mental Health and NHS Social Prescription programme 'Curious Minds' until the programme's completion in 2025. The workshop series was delivered in partnership with Suffolk Art Link, NHS Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation Trust, and the Suffolk Libraries and Museum Services.
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