Artist Statement
Alison Poon (b.1996 UK) creates ceramic, rattan and found object sculptures that focus on her mixed-heritage background. With Chinese family in Malaysia, Alison’s practice looks to identity, domestic spaces, and cultural interactions, through narrative-heavy work, with the aim of creating a space of belonging.
Picking up on the imaginative quirks of memory construction and the over-romanticisation of the past and The Other, Alison creates scenes that are part observed and part fiction, collaging together the lived experience juxtaposed with tradition. These scenes are often undercut by the modernisations of capitalism and through repeated themes of reconstruction, and the in-between.
Education
2023 -2024 MA Fine Art, City & Guilds of London Art School
Recipient of the Leverhulme Trust Art Scholarship
2018 - 2019 MA Anthropology and Cultural Politics, Goldsmith’s College, University of London
2015 - 2018 BA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London
2014 - 2015 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
Selected Exhibitions
2024 Apocalyptic Changes of State, Brushes with Greatness, London, UK, Group Show
2024 The Entranced Essence, RuptureXIBIT, London, UK, Group Show
2022 StART Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK, Group Show
2022 See|Me Roots, Gallery Arte Azulejo, New York USA, Group Show
2021-22 Well Well Well, Leyden Gallery, London, UK, Group Show
2018 Chelsea College of Arts X New Dawn Risk, New Dawn Risk, London UK, Group Show
2018 Undergraduate Summer Show 2018, Chelsea College of Arts, London UK, Group Show
2018 Interim, Chelsea College of Arts, London UK, Group Show
2017 Translations, Chelsea College of Arts, London UK, Group Show
2017 Pt: 2 // who dis?, 202 Gallery, London UK, Group Show
2017 Chelsea Second Year Show, Triangle Gallery, London UK, Group Show
2017 50 49'25.0"N 0 02'37.3"E, South Downs National Park, Sussex UK, Group Show
2016 Territories of Practice: (Oxy)Moron, Cookhouse Gallery, London UK, Group Show,
Awards, commissions and features
2023 Leverhulme Trust Art Scholarship, City & Guilds of London Art School
2021 Friend of the Artist Studio Project online publication.
2018 Rossi Asiaghi Art Award, 1st Prize.
2018 ArtsThread, June: Chelsea Degree Show 2018: Fine Art BA Hons
2014 Living Edge Magazine, March Issue