About

Alison is an award winning multi-disciplinary artist, working across performance, installation and social engagement.

Alison’s work seeks to invite re-enchantment with the natural world. She creates ritual moments, immersive journeys and interactive installations; and re-frames spaces for performance and social engagement, with a focus on sustainable practice. The embodied sensory relationship between audience, place, and story is always at the heart of her practice; and she mostly works in public spaces, inviting accidental encounters and offering the unexpected within the everyday.

Alison’s recent work includes large scale participatory performances and installations created with Creative Folkestone; National Trust; and as part of the Kent National Landscape & Pas de Calais UNESCO Geopark bid.  She was recently one of 8 Future Wales Fellows, supported by Arts Council Wales, Natural Resources Wales & Peak Cymru.

Alison started her career working with the Shunt collective in 2009, following training as a theatre designer at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and a Masters in Writing & Performance at University of York. Her performance design work has been seen across the UK and abroad, in theatres and site specific locations.

Alison founded the performance collective Bread & Goose in 2009 and led the company on a decade of adventures, devising magical immersive experiences for audiences in markets and town centres; on bicycles; underground; and within the mind of a woman with Alzheimers.

Teaching and facilitation are core parts of Alison’s practice, and she runs workshops in scenography, sustainable creative practice, and bespoke co-creation activities for people from tiny to elder and from all walks of life. She is an Associate Lecturer at Central St Martins on BA Performance: Design & Practice; a regular tutor at Rose Bruford College, and a certified Carbon Literacy Facilitator, leading on the development and delivery of Carbon Literacy training course for creatives.