Alison Jean Shaw

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Alison is a South African artist, born in 1989 in Port Elizabeth. She attained her B.Tech in Fine Arts at NMMU in 2012. In 2016 she moved to Johannesburg where she worked as an artist and curator. In 2019 she received the Ampersand Fellowship award. She is currently based in the Eastern Cape. Alison uses varied mediums to explore visual language, its significance in most creation mythologies and how art correspondingly parallels, deviates from and transforms existing structures. Her drawings or collages are inspired by and sourced from contemporary visual culture, colloquial narratives, historical and mythological imagery.

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