Alison Stockmarr

QUALIFICATIONS

BA Hons Art & Design (Textiles & 3-D), Colchester School of Art & Design
City & Guilds 7307 Teaching Certificate
City & Guilds Clothing Design & Manufacture

ARTISTS STATEMENT

Materials led artist working in textiles and salvage. Textures and materials are my starting point. The flotsam and jetsam of life harbour worn qualities that I enjoy. Much of my work is a collation of reappropriated fragments that consider past. I create visual archaeologies that afford the viewer glimpses of stories hidden amongst layers of ephemera. Seeking out and rejuvenating discarded objects and materials is key to my work and, in a contemporary context, I endeavour to breathe a unique beauty back into them.

     

SELECTED RESIDENCIES, COMMISSIONS AND EXHIBITIONS

2009
British Craft Trade Fair (BCTF), Harrogate
‘ArtStop : BusStop’, family workshops, ‘firstsite’, Colchester
@rtists in Schools, workshops in numerous primary and secondary schools in the East of England

2008
‘Reclaim’, Birmingham Society of Artists, exhibition of recyling artists
‘Art reflecting Citizenship’ (ArC), artist residency, commission and group exhibition, ‘firstsite’, ‘CSN Consultancy’ and ‘Colchester Schools Consortium’
Supplying gallery shops including ‘20/21 Visual Arts Centre’, Scunthorpe, ‘Wave Contemporary Art Gallery’, Whitby and ‘Tinsmith’s Gallery’, Ledbury

2007
‘Blank Canvas’, University of Essex and Outreach Programme in Clacton and Jaywick area, workshops with primary and secondary school children at the Martello Tower, Jaywick
‘Escalator’, University of Essex, Drama Department, sets, costumes and props
‘CP’, Tendring Gateway

2006
‘Residue’ residency, ‘firstsite’, Colchester
‘Parade of Light’, ‘firstsite’, Colchester
‘Blank Canvas’

LINKS

www.artistsinschools.co.uk
www.greensteadcommunitycentre.org.uk

CONTACT

01206 825970
07710 513034
alisonstockmarr@hotmail.co.uk