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Alison Philp

Fife
I am a freelance artist educator with a drawing and painting visual art practice. I have a degree in Drawing and Painting from Edinburgh College of Art and an MFA in Art and Humanities from Dundee University.
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I have worked in arts education for many years and believe in the importance of arts education for all, to offer soft skills that empower people, help them navigate the world, and learn to connect and understand themselves whilst also inventing new ways of living well and coping with change. 

In my arts practice I focus on the local natural world in a non-extractive way. I have developed an interest in recording the connections, interrelationships and entanglements I see happening around me – how these can even become metaphors for crucial ideas regarding human ways of being in the world, as well as records that witness a changing climate. 

I am influenced by philosophical botanical writings, such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, that present ideas of how botanising exercises our faculty of attentive observation and teaches us to ‘see well’.

 

 

Slow Time (work in progress)

Floresence

Driftwood

Hawthorn

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