Alice Potts

Athens is our city. And the city we want all Onassis people to get to explore. Alice Potts, a post graduate of the Fashion and Innovation department of the Royal College of Arts in London, will be living in Athens for a whole year, as an Onassis Fellow. As a bio - tech designer, Alice will work on the nature and the technology of the Athenian sweat.

The main focus of the work will look at the confluence of Fashion, Science and the human body. Exploring the poetry of the human fluids, sweat as art, she will begin to further study the human sporting anatomy, both inside and outside led naturally, by the history of ATHENS, the origins of the Olympian, the body full of blood, the maths of the sweat, that passion and examination of those extraordinary feats of athletic endeavour in a city, within our world, where the sporting, social and cultural high-lights all began. "For me the most important thing is not being a tourist, but really learning how to become an Athenian", Alice Potts said after her first months in Greece.

During the ATHENS Biennale, Alice presented her work in "Sweat" exhibition.

Alice Potts, a recent Royal College of Art (London) graduate, taught by Zowie Broach, now begins her residency fellowship program for the Onassis Foundation. Alice is a Material Researcher that bridges a visual representation of the unseen beauty of perspiration with a natural process to “create our own accessories.” Her recent collection ‘perspire’, comprises of using athletes sweats and utilizes a “unique materialization [process]” to create crystallized items, composed by the act of sweating. Focusing mainly on sustainable practices and Biomaterial, she aims to create a new way of thinking for fashion design in the future.

As part of the Onassis Artistic Research Fellowship program for 2019, she will begin looking at a deeper connection of Fashion, Science and the human body and creating the unseen visible.