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Martineau Alison Jones
A partially sighted artist, Alison Jones employs all manner of materials to create multi-sensory installations that are much more than just a visual experience. Alison has cone rod dystrophy, a degenerative disease that affects the retina and often leads to blindness. At present her sight is hazy and gives everything in her vision 'the appearance of a Monet painting'. Alison left her native Liverpool to train at Camberwell College of Art in London and then Chelsea College of Art. Achieving immediate success, her first major exhibition was at the Institute for Contemporary Art in London in 1989, where her work was shown alongside that of Brit Art bad-boy, Damien Hirst. She has since exhibited across the country. Her earlier pieces were concerned with illusion, using objects and photos to question the boundaries between reality and art. Later work has shifted creatively to emphasise smell and its ability to paint vivid pictures of association in the mind. Her MA piece, 'Hum', was an entire room painted with honey, and won the Bayeur-Earth Art Prize. For her next project, Alison hopes to work with the neurological department at Liverpool University to obtain visual images of people's mental reactions to hearing music. Literally taking art into another dimension, her artistic vision brings images blurred by her physical perception into new focus.
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