ABOUT

Within her curatorial practice, Alison Powell is interested in the landscape, examining connections between art and the natural environment. Originally from Vancouver, British Columbia, the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples – Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō, Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations, she now lives and works in the UK. 

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From 2021-2024 Alison Powell worked as assistant curator at the West Vancouver Art Museum, and then as acting director/curator from 2024 to 2025. There, she curated the exhibitions, Barrie Jones: Urban Wild (2025), Stepping Into the Circle: Aaron Nelson-Moody/Tawx'sin Yexwulla (2024), The Decisive Moment: Ema Peter  (2023), and John Fulker: North Shore Modern (2022). She attained a Master of Art History, with a concentration in Museum Studies degree at the City College of New York (CUNY) in 2021, and a Bachelor of Art History and Visual Art degree from Concordia University (Montreal) in 2016.

 

Within her artistic practice, she draws from an early educational background in both natural and social sciences. Within her research-based art practice, Powell uses collage and photography to interrogate the connection between nature and culture. Her work critiques trajectories of the Enlightenment and Romantic periods, questioning notions of progress drafted by Enlightenment thinkers that still cling on to current global social, economic, and political contexts.