Alison Edmonds studied Fine Art at Psalter Lane in Sheffield gaining a First Degree in 1981. Her formative years were spent in Manchester but she has produced Art-work  in London and Yorkshire. The artist has exhibited in British and European galleries and her work features in private collections.  

The work, often large in scale, is linked by recurring images and ideas which progress and develop organically. They are shaped by the contemplation of the notion of timeless order existing 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. These acutely 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."

 Curriculum Vitae

Alison Edmonds (born in Manchester 1959)

Recent exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions 2026

Flo-State -The Media Centre , Huddersfiled

Encounters-The Cupola Contemporary Art Gallery, Sheffield

Group Exhibitions 2026

AOAP-Bomb Factory, Holborn, London

A Bell is a Cup, ‘First Round Proper’ - Bloc Projects, Sheffield

Leeds Summer Show group Show, Leeds Playhouse

Simulcast III - Redcar Contemporary

Stegasaurus- Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield

Tarantella - Bloc Projects, Sheffield

Group Exhibitions 2025

A Bell is a Cup……Until it is Struck- Bloc Projects, Sheffield

OPO Open -Scarborough

Elevation-Shat Gallery, Huddersfield

Satellite -Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield

Simulacast- Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield

Royal Academy Summer Show, London

Simulcast II -gage Gallery, Sheffield

Group Exhibitions 2024

Lets Talk about Intuition - The Coincidence Gallery, Pictures Gallery, London

Eye Shadows, Fronteer Art Gallery,Sheffield . An exhibitionn by 3 contemporary women painters

Higher Bandwidth- Huddersfield

Leeds Summer Group Show, Leeds Playhouse

Peppercorn, The Minstrel Gallery, Bloc Studios, Sheffield

Palaces and Playgrounds,-Murama Gallery, Deansgate, Manchester

Group Exhibitions 2023

Delphic - Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield

Royal Academy Summer Show, London

A Generous Space 3 ASP -Huddersfield Art Gallery

Leeds Summer Group Show- Leeds Playhouse

Live with It - Murama art Gallery, Marple, Stockport

Darker than a Blackbirds Retina- Terrace Gallery, Huddersfield

Babble, Ilkeston Contemporary Arts, Ilkeston

Cornucopia -Cupola Contemporary Art gallery

Group Exhibitions 2022

Janus Revisited -Cupola Contemporary Art Gallery, Sheffield

Environment-Fronteer Art Gallery, Sheffield

Finalist Winter Open- Fronteer Art 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 Contemporary Art Gallery

Education

1978-81 Sheffield City Polytechnic , Psalter Lane -First degree BA Hons Fine Art

1997- PGCE Art and Design, Bretton hall, Leeds University

1999-2020: worked in Art Education

Exhibitons and awards

2023, 2025-Royal Academy Summer Show, London

2023- Awarded funding -Responsa Foundation

2020, 2026- long listed for Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing prize

2019 Exhibition of 5 selected Artists to celebrate 35 years of West Yorkshire Print Workshop-WYPW, Mirfield, Kirklees

2016 -longlisted for John Moores painting prize

2012 Solo Exhibition- Armoury, Bates Mill , Featuring a Sound Environment collaboration with Dr. Rose Dodd, Hudderfield Contemporary Music Festival

1997-Lifelines-Site Specific Installation, Media Centre, Huddersfield Fringe Music Festival

1990 Solo Exhibition- Works on Paper, Huddersfield Art Gallery

!986: 5 selected Artists- Women’s Arts Festival, Wakefield

1984: Kirklees Artists II- Huddersfield Art Gallery, % artists selected by Martin Naylor

1981: the Best from degree Shows-Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield

1981: The Stowells Trophy Exhibition- The Royal Academy, London

1981: Young Contemporaries- ICA , London

1981: Awarded Harmstone Bequest Travelling Scholarship

1979: Northern Young Contemporaries, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester