ART @ ARCHAEOLOGY

Process and Revelation : a Visual Dialogue

A process beyond looking

This research and resulting series of works has developed from a collaboration with Bournemouth University’s Department of Archaeology & Anthropology Field School on the Durotriges dig in Dorset.

Often using materials excavated from the site, Alison has set about recording and interpreting the experience of this Iron Age dig using methodologies embedded in painting and mark making. 

Alison approaches this collaboration as fieldwork, using the language of science and art in an interchangeable way in the search for a dialect that crosses over the disciplines. Her work appropriates archaeological methodologies and academic language from site digs to inform her  practice. Like many archaeological ideas Alison’s work does not make suppositions or search for a quick aesthetic outcome, rather it tries to go through the same rigorous exposing of layers of meaning through excavation.