Alison Bickmore | The Work
Statement
Exploring the way the mundane becomes important the moment we direct attention towards it, Alison Bickmore is interested in the objects and places that are often conveyed in modern culture as worthless and ordinary. Through photography and print, Bickmore reveals her selected objects as part of the fantasy of the forgotten form, aiming to blur the boundary between concrete and illusion, presence and absence. The work presents a distant world that was discarded and withdrawn.
The collection of objects in the series “Grandfathers Shavers Box” are photographed and displayed to revive and record their significance as an object forming an emotive substitute for the person they represent in a systematic process associated with obsession and archival.
The screen prints are part of a series of work that originated from photographs of bungalows “Pagham Beach Bungalows” on a beach in West Sussex, incognisant dwellings occupied by weekend visitors to an eroding landscape.
CV
Education
2002 Camberwell College of Arts - MA Fine Art Printmaking
1999 City and Guilds of London School of Art - Fine Art (Painting)
1982 Loughborough College of Art BA (Hons)
Selected Group Shows
2011 The National Open Art Exhibition, 2011 Chichester, Sussex.
Bite, Artists Making Prints, The Mall Galleries, London.
Loop Artists Print Show, Bankside Gallery, London.
Open Photography 2, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol.
2010 Perceptual Crossings, The Street Gallery, UCH London.
The National Open Art Prize 2010, Chichester, Sussex
2009 Connect 2, The Smithfiled Gallery, London.
Book House Art, Seoul, Korea.
3D Gallery, Bristol.
2008 Live & Morris Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
Waterloo Gallery, London.
Loop08 ,The Menier Gallery, London.
Originals 08, The Mall Galleries, London.
21st Century Watercolour Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London.
2007 Group Show, 3D Gallery, Bristol.
De Gallerie, The Hague, The Netherlands.
2006 Parfitt Gallery Croydon College, Croydon (Solo Show).
Originals 06, The Mall Gallery, London.
2005 New Greenham Arts, Newbury, Berkshire.
Nolia’s Gallery, London.
Originals 05, The Mall Gallery, London.
Six of One Menier Gallery, London.
2004 Bonhams, London.
Apart Gallery, London.
2002 RK Burt Gallery, London.
Century Gallery, London.
International Small Print Show, The Morley Gallery, London.
2001 Imagining The Body, Centenary Gallery, London.
The National Arts School, Sydney, Australia.
Kala Bhavana, Shantin Ketan, India.
The National Print Show, The Mall Gallery, London.
Apart Gallery, London.
Art link Sotheby’s International Young Art.
2000 National Print, The Mall Gallery London.
Print 2000, The Walk Gallery, London.
Prizes and Awards
2006 The Curwen Prize, Originals 06 Contemporary Print,
The Mall Gallery, London.
2001 Itaglio Print Prize, The National Print Exhibition,
The Mall Gallery, London.
Work in Public and Private Collections
HM Department of Education and Employment