Alison McCauley

Alison McCauley, born in the UK, studied visual arts at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton and photography at Open College of the Arts, GB. She also holds a Postgraduate diploma in visual arts – painting, Haute école d'Art et de Design, Genève.

 

McCauley is a photographer whose approach to the people and locations she photographs is instinctive, open-ended and subjective. She weaves her images together to create non-linear, intuitive narratives. Her work often explores the idea of identity, belonging and memory. Because of moving a lot, her images are frequently infused with melancholy and feelings of restlessness and loss.

 

Copies of Alison's books are in the Tate Library and Archive, the Bibliotèque Nationale de France, the Amrican Centre for Photographers (North Carolina) and the Library of Cannes.
Today she is living in Cannes and Genève.

 

The IKS collection includes 12 signed prints of her series "Dancing with a Cobra", which she created as a reflection on her memories of her childhood in Malaysia.

 

 

Dancing with a Cobra, 2016

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dancing with a Cobra, 2016. Archival pigment print. 29,8 x 21 cm (paper size), signed © Alison McCauley / courtesy IKS PHOTO Collection