Alison Neville graduated magna cum laude in 2016 with a Bachelor’s of Fine Art from Weber State University. She lives in Bountiful, Utah, and works at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art as the K-12 Education Manager. Her work has been shown nationally as part of pop-up shows, galleries, fundraisers, and city-funded projects nationally. She has work in both Utah’s state-owned Alice Merrill Horne Art Collection and the Salt Lake County Fine Art Collection. Nasty Women Utah was organized by her as an all-female identifying show, protesting our previous president, and raising funds for Planned Parenthood Utah. She was an artist in residence at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, as well as a participant in the Ayatana Artist Residency in Chelsea, Quebec, Canada, and the Mycophilia Artist Research Residency, a virtual program based in Chelsea, Quebec, Canada.
ARTIST STATEMENT
“Fungi, maps, and political events permeate most of my work. I find them to be bizarre and otherworldly. This being said I cannot understand enough about them. I wonder how they can be combined, what can be learned from them? How can developing highly effective weapons assure our safety? How close is our political climate to a game in which one person’s decision can mean starting a war? Or ending one? Are there ways to bring out those things that ultimately don’t make sense to me? I examine world events and try to dissect them into understandable pieces. I try to play the scientist. I use maps to interpret political fragments into the cross-stitches that I can carry with me. Adding little indications of this research to make roads and civic buildings. Much of my work can be read info-graphically and find their beginning as a research project based in drawing. These drawings might be doodles on a map or referenced from a photo in that day’s breaking news. These drawings become a personal library of events, phrases, and visuals where I draw from for larger works. Once I’ve found specific information I decide on what medium is best suited to relay that data. This often means I’ll have to develop a specific technique in order to execute the work and makes my practice an interdisciplinary one. The layers I build into my work are aimed to make it accessible to many and also rewarding to those with more specialized knowledge.”
LINKS
https://www.alisondneville.com/
https://www.instagram.com/alisondneville/
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IMAGES
Alison D. Neville, “P.U.T.I.N.(Pigeons United to Interfere Now),” 2020, diorama in salmon fillet can, 4 x 6 x 6 in.
Alison D. Neville, “Last Tasmanian Tiger,” 2023,
diorama in sardine can, 4 x 3 x 3 in.
Alison D. Neville, “Parachuting Beavers,” 2023, diorama in tuna can, 4 x 3 x 4 in.
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