Joyriders, pub. 2024

Joyriders is the culmination of photographer Alice Connew’s four year investigation of the women motorcycle riders of Petrolettes. Within what is commonly recognised as a traditionally male sport, these women have unapologetically carved out a space to call their own, defiantly declaring, “we ride too”.

Joyriders spotlights the female rider in the context of both an historical and a continued presence. The American Motor Maids established themselves in the 1930s, and similar impediments these trailblazers faced seem to still apply. Many of the women Connew conversed with at moto-gatherings have stories of hindrances: they were told they can’t ride; they’re too small; they don’t have the physical or mental capacity to handle a bike. Those rebuffs have spurred many to prove their naysayers mistaken.

This zealous attitude becomes the core of the series which juxtaposes themes of femininity and the female gaze against machismo and convention.

The women and their bikes move through landscapes that shift between post-industrial, iron graveyards to genteel cultural landmarks, each location harking back to patriarchal histories in which the women atop their bikes, careening down the roads, become vehicles of radical resistance.

Designed by Alice Connew
Essay by Emma Jones
Typography by Catherine Griffiths
Image Prepress by Louis Little, Bread & Butter Studio
Printed in Lithuania
Cloth bound, hardback
48 images (colour and black and white)
215x170mm
ISBN 978-1-0687300-0-9
Limited edition of 300

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Still Looking Good, pub. 2019

Available at gloria-books.com

People’s Choice Award, Australia & New Zealand Photobook Award, 2019
Best Antipodean Photobooks, 2019

Still Looking Good is triadic collaboration between siblings Oliver Connew (dancer/choreographer) and Alice Connew that brings together dance, sound and a visual aesthetic that are drawn from and reference pervasive socio-political forces that organise modern human activity, as understood by the artists.

Originally presented by Oliver as a performative piece titled Things That Move Me, Oliver invited Alice to aid him in reimagining the concepts as short film and Still Looking Good was born. The book was initiated by Alice and concludes the collaboration.

Featuring text adapted from Things That Move Me (2017) by Oliver Connew
Images and design by Alice Connew
Printed in Lithuania
Hard cover, 24 pages
105x148mm, upright
38 colour photographs

EDITION of 300, signed and numbered
SPECIAL EDITION of 30, signed, numbered with signed and numbered inkjet print #37.

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Forty Three, pub. 2017

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FORTY-THREE was made during a freezing day in the middle of Berlin’s worst winter in forty-three years. This particular day of work—January 2013—developed into a project about the displacement and loneliness endured when one moves to a new country.

Featuring an essay by Emily Cataneo.
Photographs and design by Alice Connew.
Printed in London by ExWhyZed.
Edition of 125, signed and numbered.
Special Edition of 5, signed, numbered with signed and numbered inkjet print #5, 190x144mm image size on Ultra Premium Presentation Matte paper.