Alison Campbell

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Graduated with First Class Honours from the University of East London having built up a body of work around a fascination with that which is concealed.

The work is an exploration, or an attempt to touch upon something within, hidden from any outside perspective. Whether making recomposed representations of the body or through the physical manipulation of appearance, there is a play in my work which obscures, yet exposes the inner confines.

The process of manipulating common materials is an integral part of the work, where I aim to embody acts of destruction and repair, adage and removal and to gradually allow the work to position itself in a state far removed from the initial starting point; yet still signify indicative representations.

The materials have an uncontrollability that correlates to the unruliness of an unstable body, which is capable of expanse, spontaneity and certain organic development. The entropic is given priority, yet it is often undermined through the use of the readymade, theatrical scale and the domestic monochrome.

Although unpleasant in its naked form, the objects of my investigation are representational, born from materialised states of reality.