Alison Brannen

Alison Brannen is a Toronto-based artist who has been working in clay for 20 years. She is the recipient of three recent ceramic awards: the Anne Sneath Best in Show Award at the 2016 Hamilton and Region Juried Exhibition; the Tuckers Award of Merit at the 19th Toronto Potter’s Biennial in 2016; and the Best Non-Functional Award at the Burlington All-Guilds Show in 2017. Alison has exhibited at the Art Gallery of Burlington, Craft Ontario, Oeno Gallery, Todmorden Gallery, and Fusion Fireworks Exhibition.

Brannen has presented workshops and lectured at St. Lawrence College Brockville, Fusion Clay and Glass Conference, the Art Gallery of Burlington Potters Guild, Mississauga Potters Guild, Pine Tree Potters, and Pleasant Pottery in Toronto. She taught ceramics at Rosedale Heights School of the Arts for 17 years. Brannen has an MFA in printmaking and photography from the University of New Mexico Albuquerque and a BFA in painting from York University.

Alison creates sculptural works featuring textured surfaces that suggest disintegration, shedding, and falling away. Each piece records the marks of its firing and vary in colour, pattern, size, and weight.