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Alice Alva is a multi-disciplinary visual artist and designer based in Te-Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, New Zealand, who works across drawing and illustration, embroidery and textiles, painting and graphic design. Her work is informed by an interest in patterns, ornamentation, architecture and craft-based processes. Alva has exhibited her work across Australia and New Zealand, including Wallace Gallery, Toi Poneke, RM Gallery and Dunedin Public Art Gallery’s Rear Window Project. She has been a finalist in the Wallace Art Prize, Parkin Drawing Prize and this year’s Molly Morpeth Canaday Painting and Drawing Prize. Her work can be found in private and public collections including Waikato Museum and Wallace Arts Trust.