artist bio

Alison has been consistently in clay since 1997. Starting at NBCCD, then UNBSJ and spreading across Canada, to Japan and several European countries, her education in clay, kiln building, and woodfiring  and political science, resulted in two degrees: BAA and BA hon. Alison’s received scholarships, grants, residencies, and attended workshops around the world.

She’s inspired by New Brunswick’s unique proportion of heavy industry with incredible nature, and our digitally saturated culture. She continues documenting communication infrastructure, building on her 2025 solo exhibition at the Saint John Arts Centre: “The Listeners: Ceramic Relics of Climate Catastrophe". In 2025, she also received a Creation Grant from ArtsNB to create the next installment of that series: "Still Listening." In March of 2026, she generated The Talking Tower installment of the Listeners at Centre des Arts et de la Culture Dieppe.

She was in intern the 2012 and 2014 Sculpture Saint John’s stone carving symposia. In 2006, she wrote her thesis Youth Involvement in Canadian Craft Councils, and in 2025 she wrote a chapter called Sharing the Flame in Root Words, a publication for Artslink NB.