Alicia Bruce is an award winning, working-class artist, photographer, community collaborator and activist. Her photography sits between documentary and staged imagery with an interest in local and global communities. She tells humane co-authored stories of people and place often looking through the history of art for visual referencing. Within the communities Bruce collaborates within she is interested in environmental issues, portraiture, human rights, equality, equity, feminism, politics of space, territories and heritage.

She is winner of Lishui Photography Festival Expert Recommended Photographer Award, Royal Scottish Academy Morton Award and more.

Alicia’s recent monograph ‘I Burn But I Am Not Consumed’ (Daylight Books, 2023) documents sixteen years of Donald Trump’s impact on Menie, a coastal Scottish community from 2006 until present day was internationally acclaimed.

Her photographs are held in several public collections including National Galleries of Scotland, University of St Andrews, RSA, Martin Parr Foundation, Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago) and UK Parliament.

She has exhibited internationally including National Galleries of Scotland, VU Photo (Quebec), Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago), Stills (Edinburgh), Street Level Photoworks (Glasgow), Ffotogallery (Cardiff), Lishui Museum (China), Open Eye Gallery (Liverpool), Scotland House (Brussels),The Scottish Parliament and UK Parliament.

Commissioned work is directly linked to her practice often involving editorial commissions, charitable campaigns or political organisations for campaign, exhibition and publication.

Recent campaigns and commissions include Harpers Magazine, Zero Tolerance, RECLAIM Network, Crisis and NHS Lothians.

Recent guest lectures and teaching include:

Aberdeen Art Gallery

Centre for British Photography

Falmouth University

International Centre for Photography (ICP), New York

Martin Parr Foundation

Royal Photographic Society

Sewanee University of the South

School of The Art Institute of Chicago

School of Visual Art (SVA), New York

University of Falmouth

Stills, Edinburgh

Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow

Yale University