Alison Edmonds

My work is concerned with Beginnings, Endings and what happens in between. Black, white and all the tones that separate them. Shadows that exist but don't exist. It explores layers of experience, memories of apparently random repetition - things that re-occur spontaneously over time and which eventually accumulate into some sort of significance. The journey that takes us from one point to another both physically and spiritually.

Heads or,to be more accurate 'Hoods' are a repeated motif. They can be skins, masks, boundaries, electric security fences that allow us to protect and defend ourselves in order that we live longer. Not only a survival mechanism but also something that allows us to be ourselves, or as in a mask,a passage through to another world or sensibility.

I use a variety of materials, building up both 2D and 3D images that mirror the process of adding layers and marks that will ultimately both reveal and obscure allowing things in and out as I, or the material used, chooses.

I often work in sequences, producing separate parts of a journey which then have to be brought together as a whole. Although each disparate piece can survive on its own it is a vital and integral part of the whole.