Alison Lochhead

Sculptor

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Biography

Alison has been working as a sculptor, primarily in the medium of clay, since 1997.  

Alison studied art and ceramics at Loughborough College of Art and Design and Wolverhampton Polytechnic from 1971-1975. During this period she became very interested in weaving and she received a scholarship to study tapestry weaving in Poland for a year. On her return to Britain she set up as a tapestry weaver. Alison has always loved traveling and in 1981 she got a job for three years in the Sultanate of Oman working alongside the Bedouins. Alison was inspired by the incredible rock formations in Oman and back in Britain started to work with paper pulp creating large wall pieces and continued to work with paper until about 1997.

After working in Oman, Alison became very interested in participative development and the gender politics that surround the development process, as well as gender politics which are part of daily life. She continues to work internationally in the Middle East, Africa, South East Asia and Asia. The experiences from this work are reflected in her artwork.

Alison has been exhibiting since 1977.

 

 

 


ONE WOMAN EXHIBITIONS include:

Collograph Prints, Ultracomida Café, Aberystwyth, West Wales 2011
Wrecks and Watchers, The Briggait, Glasgow 2011
Death Boats MOMA Machynlleth 2009
Cambria Art Gallery Tregaron 2003
Pankhurst Centre Manchester 1997
Link Arts Centre Swindon 1987
Black Swan Gallery Frome 1987
Malvern Workshop Malvern 1986
Bath Festival Bath 1986
Shepherds Purse Bath 1981
Rainbow Gallery Bath 1981
St.Donats Art Centre St.Donats 1980
Atlantic College St.Donats 1979
Architects Gallery Bath 1978
Grand Theatre Swansea 1978
Sheraton Schiphol Hotel Amsterdam 1977

GROUP EXHIBITIONS include:

2011

  • Iron Maidens Denbigh Library, Wales
  • Iron Maidens, Catherine G Murphy Gallery, Minnesota, USA
  • Aberystwyth Printmakers A4 Exhibition. Aberystwyth Arts Centre
  • 'Female Frame' Wales Millennium Centre. Cardiff, Wales
  • 'Iron Maidens' Pontardawe Arts Centre. Pontardawe, Wales
  • St Dogmaels Winter Exhibition. St Dogmaels Gallery, Cardigan, Wales

2010

  • Pour 2010 Exhibition, Fire and Iron Gallery. Leatherhead
  • St Dogmaels Winter Exhibition. St Dogmaels Gallery.
  • Iron Maidens and Conference Exhibition. International Cast Iron Conference. Kidwelly. South Wales.
  • The Garden Gallery. Stockbridge, Hampshire.
  • Kidwelly Industrial Museum. ‘Outside/Inside’ Sculpture Cymru Exhibition

2009

  • South Wales Potters Exhibition. Bevere Gallery. Worcester
  • Iron Maidens. Llantarnam Grange. Cwmbran
  • Galley Exhibition.West Wales Art Centre. Fishguard

2008

  • Fe 2008. A selection of iron sculptures cast in Wales. The 6th International Conference of Cast Iron Art Kidwelly Industrial Museum, Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire.
  • Sculpture in the Garden V, Hergest Croft Gardens, Kington, Herefordshire
  • The National Eisteddfod of Wales. Cardiff.
  • ‘Sculpture Cymru –Sculptures in the Swan Hotel garden’  Hay on Wye Literary Festival
  • ‘USA and UK cast iron sculptors’ Launch exhibition for the 10th International Iron Pour Conference. Henry Thomas Gallery, Carmarthen

2007

  • ‘Hiraeth’ touring exhibition, Germany, London and Barry; South Wales.
  • ‘Feile Clai’ Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin and Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales.
  • ‘Female Frame’ ArtShop Gallery, Abergavenny.

2006

  • ‘Ceramic Art from Wales and Brittany’ MOMA, Machynlleth, Wales (organised by Alison)
  • ‘The Future Past’ touring, Heritage Park Gallery, Rhondda; Ucheldre Centre, Holyhead, Rhiannon Gallery, Tregaron; Henry Thomas Gallery, Carmarthen.

2005

  • Speaker in ‘Fragmented Figure Conference’ Cardiff. ‘Artists at the Downs’ Malvern
  • ‘Private Views’ Llwyn-y-groes, Tregaron. Wales. Peter’s Barn Gallery. Midhurst.

2004

  • ‘Sculpture Works’ Margam Park, Wales. ‘Artswave’ West Wales Arts Centre, Fishguard. Peter’s Barn Gallery. Midhurst.

2003

  • ‘Private Views’. Llwyn-y-groes. Tregaron. Wales. Peter’s Barn Gallery. Midhurst.
  • Fairyhill Hotel. Gower.

2002

  • Peter’s Barn Gallery. Midhurst
  • Celtic Exchanges. (Sculpture Cymru and Bretagne Sculpteurs) Touring exhibition in Wales.
  • Millfield School. Summer Exhibition
  • Fairyhill Hotel grounds. Reynoldstone, Gower. South Wales.
  • 14th Salon of Contemporary Sculpture, Landivisiau, Brittany.
  • Court Room Gallery, Lampeter
  • Arts West, Carmarthen
  • Easter Festival, Tregaron

1996

  • Aberystwyth Arts Centre
  • Women's Arts Festival, Sheffield.
  • Welcome to the World, Violence, Abuse and Women's Citizenship Conference, Brighton Conference Centre.

1995

  • Aberystwyth Arts Centre.

1994

  • Coventry Gallery, London.

1993

  • Paperworks IV, Dundee; Paper: The Works, Plymouth.

1992

  • Rufford Craft Gallery, Newark.

1991

  • Contact Gallery, Norwich; Marilyn Garrow Gallery, London.

1990

  • Society of Women Artists, London.

1988/89

  • Brewhouse Gallery, Taunton (second prize); Ruskin Gallery, Sheffield; National Museum of Wales, Cardiff.

1988

  • Booth House Gallery, Huddersfield; 'Papier in Beeld', Asperen, Utrecht, Netherlands.

1987

  • Celebration of Weaving, Carmarthen.

1986/88

  • Galeria Biura Wystaw Artystycznych, Radom, Poland.

1986

  • Warwick Arts Trust, London.

1982

  • Festival Gallery, Bath.

1981

  • Morley Gallery, London; Ashgate Gallery, Farnham;
  • Bromsgrove Gallery, Bromsgrove; Bath Pump Rooms, Bath.

1980

  • Roundhouse Gallery, London; Chelsea Town Hall, London; Maze Gallery, Frome.

1979

  • Mannheim Art Gallery, Germany.

1978

  • University Gallery, Swansea; Some of the Best, Edinburgh;
  • Arts Centre, Aberystwyth; Glasgow Theatre, Glasgow;
  • Design Mine, Truro; Surface Design, Lafayette, USA;
  • Textural Art Gallery, London; Swansea Arts Workshop,
  • Swansea; Moot Hall, Hexham; The Quill Gallery, Aberlady, Lothian.

1977

  • Association of Artists and Designers in Wales, Swansea; 74 Guild, Carmarthen; St.Brieuc, Brittany; Thread 77, London; Blue to 100, Travelling.
   

Alison Lochhead © 2008