Alice Pulvers is a Sydney-based painter born in Tokyo, Japan, whose bicultural upbringing continues to shape her distinctive visual vocabulary. Working primarily in oil on linen, Pulvers creates richly layered compositions in which elements of the natural world — water birds, fish, flora, and fauna — inhabit flattened, schematic landscapes, redolent of Japanese aesthetic traditions, but rendered anew.

Her practice is driven by a fascination with the relationship between human experience and the forces of the natural world. Formally trained at the Julian Ashton Art School and the College of Fine Arts in Sydney, Pulvers has been a finalist in numerous prestigious prizes including the Portia Geach Art Prize, the Mosman Art Prize, the Kilgour Prize, the Ravenswood Art Prize, and the National Capital Art Prize, and has been a six-time semi-finalist in both the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
and the BP Portrait Award in London.