Alicia Bruce is an Edinburgh-based photographer, lecturer and freelance educator.^[1]

Bruce was born in Aberdeen in 1979.^[2] She studied Photography, Film and Imaging at Edinburgh Napier University, graduating in 2006.^[2]

Bruce's work focuses on the collaboration between artist and sitter in portrait photography. Her most recent projects have involved communities, such as ‘Menie: A portrait of a North East community in conflict’.^[3] Alongside her work as a practicing photographer, Bruce is a Teaching Fellow at Edinburgh College of Art and was previously a freelance educator at the National Galleries of Scotland.^[2]

She has worked on several commissions and campaigns, including those from: Edinburgh World Heritage, NewsDirect, National Galleries of Scotland, Royal Scottish Academy, University of St Andrews, The European Parliament, NHS, V&A Dundee.^[4]

She won the Royal Scottish Academy Morton Award in 2014.^[5]

2018 ‘Violence Unseen’ Stills, Edinburgh, UK (Touring commission for Zero Tolerance)

2016 ‘Menie: TRUMPED’ St Andrews Photography Festival, UK^[6]

2015 ‘The Sim Project’, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK^[7]

2015 ‘Digging for Diamonds’, EU Buildings, Brussels, Belgium

2013 ‘Encore’ Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, Cardiff, Part of Diffusion Festival

2013 ‘Menie’ The Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, UK^[8]

2008 ‘Alicia Bruce: Artist in Residence’, Aberdeen Art Centre, Aberdeen, UK

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Bruce's work is held at: MoCP Chicago, University of St Andrews Photography Collection,^[9] National Galleries of Scotland, Robert Mapplethorpe Photography Collection, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh Napier University Photography Collection, Ffotogallery, Dovecot Studios, Zero Tolerance, and various private collections.^[4]

• Menie: Trumped. Daylight books, 2023.