Alicia King moved from Brisbane to Hobart in 2001, to continue a Bachelor of Fine Arts which she completed with 1st Class Honours.   In 2004 she undertook independent research into tissue engineered sculpture and biological art at SymbioticA, The Art and Science Collaborative Research Laboratory , in Perth, Western Australia, before being awarded a Postgraduate Scholarship to commence a PhD in art/sci sculpture.  

King is currently creating within the UTAS School of Medicine, where she is growing semi-living sculptural forms through human tissue culture techniques as part of her PhD.  

She has exhibited at The National Museum of Australia , Canberra in 2004; The Whitehouse , Brisbane, and CAST , Hobart, in 2005; INFLIGHT Gallery, Hobart, and Linden Gallery , Melbourne, in 2006.   In June 2006 King travelled to Amsterdam to speak at Close Encounters, The Fourth Biannual European Conference for Science Literature and the Arts , and made her first hot glass 'blob' sculptures at the Vrij Glas Foundation .