Alison Clouston
b. 1957
1 Artwork
Born in Porirua, Clouston studied at the Ilam School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury, before moving to Australia in 1981. She held her first solo show in Sydney, Australia in 1982 and subsequently exhibited at the 1st and 2nd Australian Sculpture Triennials (Melbourne) and the Mildura Sculpture Triennial. She holds a Masters Degree from the University of New South Wales (2004).
She works in sculpture, installation, and other media, and often creates work that responds to colonial, environmental and indigenous histories. She regularly collaborates with the musician, composer/sound artist Boyd, who brings soundtrack to the immersive worlds she builds. Their installations are often interactive and participatory, sometimes solar powered, always carbon audited and offset. The pair work between an isolated bush block in the Southern Blue Mountains and Bundeena, New South Wales.
She has exhibited throughout Australia and New Zealand, and has undertaken several residency programs with indigenous artists in Central Australia, Norway, Hong Kong, Fremantle WA, and with funding from the Australia Council for the Arts London Studio, and NSW Government Create NSW. Her work is held in Australian National and Regional Gallery collections and in University and private collections.
See also:
- Alison Clouston & Boyd (Artists’ website)
- Alison Clouston New Zealand & Australian artist (Bowen Galleries)
- Clouston, Alison (Find NZ Artists website)
Alison Clouston, ‘The Bee Lady’ (1994), Botanic Gardens, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
Image: Maribeth Coleman, Public Art and Publicly Accessible Art collection, 1994. Courtesy Wellington City Libraries. CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0.
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