ARTIST IN RESIDENCE / Ali Noble
13th March – 15th March, 2026
The Lock-Up warmly welcomes Ali Noble to the Artist in Residence 2026 program to engage with her work and practice as featured in the exhibition A soft space to stand.
ABOUT ALI NOBLE
Ali Noble’s practice incorporates installation, sculpture, collage and video, to communicate notions of enchantment and ‘soft-contrariness’. For Ali, textiles in particular, embody versatility, sensuality and poetry in spaces that are typically hard-edged and rigid. Ali is an Australian-based artist on Gadigal Wangal land/ Sydney with an extensive history of exhibiting in artist-run initiatives, institutions and commercial spaces throughout Sydney and interstate. Ali is a recent MFA graduate, 2023, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, where she was awarded a Fauvette Loureiro Travel Scholarship, and the David Harold Tribe Postgraduate Research Fellowship (Sculpture). In 2025, Ali presented her solo exhibition ‘Double Rainbow; a return to Magic’ at Stanley Street Gallery, and was selected as a finalist for the Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) at Artspace, Sydney. In 2026, she will reimagine her MFA work “Nothing is certain, said the Curtain” at Wangaratta Art Gallery.