Since graduating from the Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2022, where she received both the Simon Gerson and Judy Steinberg awards for painting, Alcock’s surreal practice has continued to orbit the notion of unyielding care within a world marked by habitual apathy and indifference. Fragility, tenderness, and conscientiousness—almost anarchic in their softness—are employed as instruments of preservation.

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Her image-making is shaped by art history and the animal’s role within it; the shifting relationship between humanity, animals, and the natural world; and her own fluctuating sense of helplessness and agency. Rather than offering solutions, Alcock turns to fantasy and surrealism as a means of attentive witnessing—making visible ethical, personal, humanitarian, and ecological concerns that arise from the absence, or erosion, of genuine care.

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She is drawn to the vast and often contradictory galaxy of relational modes, inherited mythologies, and layered histories that govern how humans attend to animals and nature. Through uneasy juxtapositions of humour and ominousness, her work seeks to cultivate a renewed sense of wariness and awe—an invitation to look again, and to look more carefully.