Alice Liptrot
Alice Liptrot (b. 1989, Cheshire, UK) is a textile artist currently based on the Kent coast working primarily with punch needle and locally sourced yarn from the Kent marshes. Trained in knitwear design, she spent a decade co-founding a knitwear brand, leading to collaborations within the luxury fashion industry. Her studio practice now centres on contemporary textile artworks that recontextualise traditional techniques. Alice has exhibited nationally and undertaken private and commercial commissions for interior and hospitality spaces. Her work contributes to a wider reconsideration of textiles within contemporary art practice.
Alice Liptrot works with punch needle to explore repetition, form, and the tactile nature of textiles. Using locally sourced yarn from the Kent marshes, she builds densely layered works made up of thousands of hand-formed loops. The slow accumulation of gesture becomes both structure and narrative.
In response to The Invisible Made Visible, her practice foregrounds the unseen labour embedded in textile production. Texture and depth make time physically seen, revealing the process rather than concealing it. Through this sustained, tactile approach, she positions heritage craft as a living, contemporary language rooted in presence, care, and material sensitivity.
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