CV
Location
Alison was born in Manchester in 1959 and spent her formative years there, but has produced artwork in London and Yorkshire.
Education
Alison studied BA Fine Art at Sheffield City Polytechnic, Psalter Lane in Sheffield gaining a first degree in 1981.
Solo shows
1990: Solo Exhibition – Works on Paper, Huddersfield Art Gallery
2012: Solo Exhibition -Armoury, Bates Mill featuring a Sound Environment collaboration with Dr. Rose Dodd Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Group shows
2022
Janus Revisited - Cupola Art Gallery, Sheffield
Environment- Fronteer Art Gallery, Sheffield
Finalist Winter Open-Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield
Winter Solstice -Fronteer Art Gallery, Sheffield
Reflections - Open Gallery , Halifax
Living with the Past - Cupola art Gallery, Sheffield
We called Yesterday today- Cupola Art Gallery, Sheffield
2023
Delphic-Cupola Contemporary Art - Sheffield
Royal Academy Summer Show 2023 , London
A Generous Space 3 ASP - Huddersfield Art Gallery
Leeds Summer Group Show - Leeds Playhouse
Live With It - Murama Gallery, Marple, Stockport
Darker Than a Blackbirds Retina - Terrace gallery, Huddersfield
Babble -Ilkeston Contemporary Arts, Ilkeston.
Cornucopia - Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield
2024
Lets talk about Intuition - The Coincidence Gallery, Pictorem Gallery, London
Awards
1979: Prize for most promising student
1980: Awarded Harmstone Bequest Travelling Scholarship.
2016 Longlisted for John Moores Painting Prize
2020: Longlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize
2023: Longlisted for the Jacksons Painting Prize
Alison Edmonds
Painter
The work which Alison produces is often large in scale, but is linked by recurring images and ideas that progress and develop organically. The shaping of this work is in contemplation with the notion of timeless order that exists amongst the entropy of an ever-changing world.
Banal, prosaic situations and experiences are collated and connected through personal responses in paintings, drawings, collages, sculptures and installations. The introspective observations explore mundane and overlooked surroundings, expressed through a personal vocabulary of mythology and revelation. Given or found materials and objects often act as starting points gaining new significance by re-forming, redistribution or repositioning.
“As an artist I often work in projects or series and during the process discover some sort of place in the world. Work often begins as a fixed point which branches out and produces new fixed points. Sometimes they return to an idea which then gains more substance over time. These points can become more powerful with experience or obsession."