Previous AA2A Artist

Alison Cameron

Artform:
Mixed media painting
Year:
2010-11
Location:
Falmouth, Cornwall
Influences:
Almost everything!
Email:
via website
Project summary:

 This is about my work, so it has to be about me?

In a culture that privileges the mechanised, the industry produced, the masculine, I have been taking the devalued world of the hand stitched to recover a lost culture of domestic craft which references the current ‘slow craft’ movement as well as identity, that of the unknown sewer. Working with the iconography of ‘religious’ art from the Palaeolithic through to the medieval, the work incorporates found items of discarded hand stitched work in a desire to create an encounter between traditions of reverence and worship and traditions of craft work, an encounter which takes shape through themes of ritual, commitment, performance, repetition, pattern, purpose and value.  These encounters disperse into areas of fine art, traditional and new jewellery/metalwork, performance/theatre, textile, fashion and photography, even food, weaving through each other to create disparate yet cohesive senses of whole.

Assembling religious symbolism with hand made work in the context of painting and  also through 3D ‘dolls’ (talisman, icons, figures); I explore the connections and collisions between the sacred and profane, the venerated and the mundane, and raise questions about the differing status of art and craft in the western world

Being given the opportunity through the AA2A scheme to access equipment, the expansive library and media facilities, as well as the knowledge and skills through tutors in a wide range of disciplines, would help to enhance my existing creative vocabulary relating to gender, iconography and identity. Through the AA2A scheme and currently limited by facilities as well as limited finances, I am at the right stage of my creative career to take full advantage of the AA2A opportunity and fully committed to encounter new collisions and connections, in whatever form they take!

With an eclectic career background and a complex creative subject, I would welcome any opportunity to share, exchange and debate any of my knowledge and skills with students and tutors. It is a vital component of the opportunity! 

 This is about my work, so it has to be about me?

In a culture that privileges the mechanised, the industry produced, the masculine, I have been taking the devalued world of the hand stitched to recover a lost culture of domestic craft which references the current ‘slow craft’ movement as well as identity, that of the unknown sewer. Working with the iconography of ‘religious’ art from the Palaeolithic through to the medieval, the work incorporates found items of discarded hand stitched work in a desire to create an encounter between traditions of reverence and worship and traditions of craft work, an encounter which takes shape through themes of ritual, commitment, performance, repetition, pattern, purpose and value.  These encounters disperse into areas of fine art, traditional and new jewellery/metalwork, performance/theatre, textile, fashion and photography, even food, weaving through each other to create disparate yet cohesive senses of whole.

Assembling religious symbolism with hand made work in the context of painting and  also through 3D ‘dolls’ (talisman, icons, figures); I explore the connections and collisions between the sacred and profane, the venerated and the mundane, and raise questions about the differing status of art and craft in the western world

Being given the opportunity through the AA2A scheme to access equipment, the expansive library and media facilities, as well as the knowledge and skills through tutors in a wide range of disciplines, would help to enhance my existing creative vocabulary relating to gender, iconography and identity. Through the AA2A scheme and currently limited by facilities as well as limited finances, I am at the right stage of my creative career to take full advantage of the AA2A opportunity and fully committed to encounter new collisions and connections, in whatever form they take!

With an eclectic career background and a complex creative subject, I would welcome any opportunity to share, exchange and debate any of my knowledge and skills with students and tutors. It is a vital component of the opportunity! 

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