Alison Shanks

I am currently living and working in Sicily.My work is primarily made with Porcelain. It is silkscreen printed with fragmented and distorted images taken from mass media.
Previously my work has focused upon how we are manipulated and are losing our humanity and becoming dehumanised through an over saturation of mass media and technology.

We are currently worldwide undergoing an Opioid Crisis. Also the use of drugs such as Crystal Methamphetamine and legal highs is endemic. Suicides and overdoses are affecting people in every strata of society. In the US every day 130 people die from Opioid overdoses. In 2018, seventy two thousand people died in the US of drug overdoses.

My recent work is about how we are out of balance with our world.

1984 BA(Hons) Fine Art, Hornsey College of Art, London
2011 BA(Hons) Ceramics, Bath Spa University, Bath, U.K
2013 MA Ceramics, Bath Spa University,UK

2019 Korean Ceramic International Biennial,South Korea
2019 Barnums of Noto, Noto, Italy
2019 Palazzo Spadoro, Scicli, Italy
2019 Natideo, Stallaini, Italy

2018 Art Gemini, Singapore
2018 Art Gemini Prize, London,UK
2018 Flux Exhibition, London, UK


Dec 2017 " Flux", London, UK
June 2017 "Lapideo, Stallaini. Italy

July 2016 "Angels" Siracusa, Italy
June 2016 "Lapideo", Stalliani, Italy
March 2016 " Moon Out of Ortigia", Siracusa, Italy
December 2015 "Flux" RCA, London
February 2015 Guldagergaard Ceramic Research Centre, Denmark
January 2015 Bevere Gallery, UK

June 2014 New Designers, London, U.K
June 2014 Adur Fringe Festival, West St loft Studios, Shoreham, UK
May 2014 Bath Fringe Festival,”A Given Structure” Bath, UK
March 2014 “Speculative future”A-Side B-Side Gallery, Hackney, London,
September 2013 MA Show Bath Spa University, UK
December 2012 “Small” Black Swan Arts, Frome, UK
October 20...