I want to question how we relate to our rapidly changing world.
We are bombarded by advertisements and propaganda images in the mass media, which manipulate us: to conform; to want; to think; to buy over-produced products and what to look like. There is a lack of humanity as are depersonalised and some would say made inhuman through this constant bombardment of images through all forms of media.
Website
www.alisonshanks.com
Born (date, place)
27/10/1961 Corby, U.K
Education
1981-1984 Hornsey College of Art, London, U.K BA(Hons) Fine Art
2007-2011 Bath Spa University, Bath, U.K BA(Hons) 3D
Design/Ceramics
{C}2011-2013 Bath Spa University, Bath MA Ceramics 3D
Design/Ceramics
Prizes
2010 The Gane Travel Scholarship I travelled to Russia to study
Puppetry and Contemporary Art
2011 The Gane Trust Award Money awarded to buy studio
Equipment
2011 303 South And West Sculpture Award Winner
2013 The Gane Trust Award Money awarded to buy studio
Equipment
Publications
October 2012 Ceramic Review Magazine
March 5th 2013 “500 Prints On Clay”
Lark Publishers, New York. Edited by Paul Wandless
Private Collections
Davina Kemble
Bourke de Vies
Exhibitions- Selected Group
September 2013 MA Show Bath Spa University, UK
December 2012 “Small” Black Swan Arts, Frome, UK
October 2012 The Holburne Museum, Bath, UK
A museum intervention installation
January 2012 “Firing Up” Crafts Council, Bath Spa University,
Corsham, UK
February 2012 Black Swan Arts, Frome, Somerset, UK
Open Arts Competition and Exhibition
September 2011 The Gallery, Honiton, Devon, UK
August 2011 The 303 Show, Bath and West Show Ground,
Somerset, UK
June 2011 "New Designers", The Design Centre, London, UK
May 2011 Bath Spa University Degree Show, Bath, UK
November 2007 Holt Gallery, Sherborne, Dorset, UK
June 2006 Sumidos Gallery, Sitges, Spain
June 1984 “Pick of the New Graduates”, The Royal Academy of
Art, London, UK
