Alison Woolacott

Contemporary mark making artworks created by stripping photographic ink from colour images and dripping the residue onto blotting paper.

‘Postcards from Thailand’, 6x4″ original watercolour paintings, depict my experience, as an alternative to a beautiful multi-produced image of my location. Delicate souvenirs which contain a narrative.  

Cut ‘gold’ words now sit in tiny glass bottles, preserved forever, and viewers have to peer inside, like Silas Marner sat counting his gold each evening before it was stolen.

For this work, I purchased a 1994 Volkswagen Camper Van and after examining its extensive history, I planned a journey and the van was driven back to Ingolstadt in Germany, where it was first registered. ‘Flow’ examines my physical experience of this journey whilst travelling 1,807 miles across Europe as a passenger. These are from my collection of souvenir postcards, and contain repetitive marks on their surface rather than images of local history. Distance is no longer measured in miles, but with the flow of ink.

The way we communicate has changed drastically, and it is not a shock that binary code is the most widely used language in the world. The language of computers. With this in mind, I examined the private text messages I had shared with my daughter over the period of a month and transformed these words into binary code, thus making the language unrecognisable to humans.  Each individual number has been printed by hand using ink on my daughter’s used bedsheets uniting the language with an emotional bond between mother and daughter. With permission from my daughter, the original messages are presented here in one book for everyone to read, whilst the additional book can only be read by computers. Private conversations become public giving a sense of voyeurism.

Exhibition at The Station Gallery, Nuneaton Railway Station

‘Redefined Recollections’ & ‘Threshed Memories’ exhibited in the second Nuneaton & Bedworth Open Arts Trail September 2017

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Inspired by the sweeping window on the western elevation, 'Palingenesis' has been crafted from a section of wood cladding discarded during the construction of the new chemistry building (CNL) in 2016. Encased within the structure, mutated, delicate specimens collected from the charred remains of the first build are preserved, standing proudly as individual souvenirs to represent each week leading up to the devastating fire. Requiring close inspection, scale is reversed as human reflections are captured on the polished, transparent surface like giants examining tiny samples from the past. Exploring beyond the recognisable, beauty can be found in unusual places. A Woolacott.

Distance is no longer measured in miles or kilometres, but with the flow of ink on the surface of a postcard.  Personal time is contained within tiny structures juxtaposed against the hypnotical thrum of rubber versus tarmac.

<p>Pleased to see a photograph of my work in the Rugby Advertiser this week. The exhibition continues at Rugby train station until Friday 8th April.</p>

2 of my recent works in a current site specific exhibition at Rugby Railway Station.

69 pieces of me. 5 days of travelling in a van through Europe, December 2015

60 minute free hanging motion drawing Germany 2015

One of my Paris images forms part of the current online exhibition, Salvage. Restore. Repair @ Gallery202, Northampton.

Today I gave each bottle the chance to stand proud of the rest of the group to become individual pieces of art.  These bottles form part of my work named ‘Redefined Recollections’ 2014 and have been safely stored since their last exhibition.  This morning I unwrapped the collection and became fascinated in the metamorphosis that is occurring within the bottles.  Like the original Paris images, the artwork continues to evolve and alter dependent upon the elements they are exposed to.  Here are pieces 1-5.