by Alison Bigg | Aug 7, 2023 | Current Work, Residency
I am once again working with the Victoria Arts Council during August! From the VAC website: “Reclaim focuses on the use of upcycling art and/or construction materials in the creation of new work for public spaces. During the course of the month-long program,...
by Alison Bigg | Jun 19, 2023 | Current Work, Exhibitions, Printmaking
Auricals is now up at the Victoria Arts Council Pat Martin Bates Gallery until July 23rd, 2023. Thank you to everyone that came to the opening on June 9th and the artist talk on June 11th. On June 30th I will be speaking about Reverie for Creative Mornings in the...
by Alison Bigg | Feb 8, 2023 | Current Work, Exhibitions, Printmaking
Part one of this work-in-progress is sculptures made from re-purposed found objects and shapes made using 3-D printing. Over the last few years I have been experiencing severe hearing loss due to otosclerosis. Initially a means to document and grieve this loss...
by Alison Bigg | Aug 25, 2022 | Current Work, Exhibitions, Printmaking
Two of my solar plate/chine colle prints were accepted into the Tompe2022. They are currently being exhibited in London, Ontario. There will also be an exhibition catalogue printed. For more info go to http://printlondon.ca/ Amplification Tool, allows you to take in...
by Alison Bigg | Oct 20, 2020 | Current Work, Exhibitions
Gestural Prompt “At times the clay moves so effortlessly that my hands seem to follow, not to initiate, the movements of the clay. I notice an emotion in my hands that seems to connect them with my chest…” Harry Remde from The Art in a Craft, 1975 In the last few...
by Alison Bigg | Apr 10, 2020 | Ceramics, Current Work, Installation, Printmaking
Precarious Circumstance is a tower of sad faces. Sadness is piling up on itself, until one is drowning in sorrow. The ‘sorrow’ face image was found in an old boy scout book of my brother’s after he lost his battle with depression. The cloth legs are holding up...
