Talking about her work Alison said: "My current work explores my relationship with memory, landscape and place - my everyday surroundings and places of my past. The landscape resonates with echoes and memories which are delicately woven into the intricate patterns and shapes of my surroundings. Every mark I draw becomes a moment of total absorption and every detail imbued with the past. I work from my own photographs - an ever-growing collection of images from my childhood to the present. I’m constantly rummaging through this collection, zooming in and cropping. This process acts as both a resource and incitement to reverie. The interplay of familiar scenes taken out of context combined with the tone of the pencil gives the images a sense of ‘otherness,’ an underlying tension. Questions arise as to why such ordinary scenes are being depicted in this way. I love the compositions and framing of the scenes George Shaw captures in his paintings of the area where he grew up - drawing attention to often unremarkable overlooked spaces we pass through everyday without noticing. The intense familiarity of these scenes makes us feel connected to these forgotten places - the image is separated from the present and the past resulting in a profound sense of melancholic yearning for an absent something, stirring feelings of nostalgia, ruminations on the past, collective memories and creating images with an almost shrine like sense of time elapsed, intense longing and missingness."