ALISON ERIKA FORDE  Born 1985 Wigan UK.

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

December 2021-22(Upcoming) - Sit Down & Get Out! The Portico Library

2021-22 DisrVpt (Holding Space) - Royal Exchancge Theatre

        Spirit of a Place – Bury Art Museum

2020 Everything I Know I felt – Girl Gang MCR The Lowry

2019 Bury My Art At Peterloo – Manchester Histories

     Get Lost and Found – Gang of Five Levenshulme

2018 Folk Dress of North West England – Didsbury Parsonage

     GOF Get Shouty – Gang of Five

     DIY/GOF – Gang of Five Plant NOMA Manchester

     We are Gang of Five – Prestwich 

2017 Let’s Paint the Town Red – Plant NOMA

     Be Our Guest – Craft and Design Centre

2016 Tall Tales, Freud Museum, London, Touchstones Rochdale, Glasgow Women's Library

2014 The Madsen Commissions- Finding the Value, York St. Mary's

     Men who like women who smell of their job (w/David Gaffney) John Ryland's Library

     Hydra, Bolton(detail), H Project Space, Bangkok, Transition Gallery London & Usher Gallery, Lincoln.

2013 Snotboobs and The Severed Toe, Yiiikes!, Islington Mill

     Yiiikes Collective, Bury Light Night

2012 Sounds From The Other City poster exhibition, Salford

2011 Housework, The International 3

     Trace Print Box launch, MMU

2009 Not at this address, Bury Art Museum

     How We Work, Blackburne House, Liverpool

2008 MMU Degree Show

2007 Loveless, Manchester

 

PROJECTS

Black Art BAM – at Bury Art Museum 2020 – Present

Bury Art Mail – 2020 - Present

Moonwalking Exploring Afro-futurism with Keisha Thompson Blue Dot |Festival 2019

Old Tools New Futures – Manchester Art Gallery & Contact 2019

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2015 There's nothing for you here, Bury Art Museum

2013 The Tallest of Tales, Manchester Art Gallery

2011 little, openspace, greenroom, Manchester

2010 Smotherland, at The International 3

     Better out than in, MasART Galeria, Barcelona

 

AWARDS

2011 Judge for TSB Art of Nurture,student award

2008 British Airways Student Prize. http://www.artwisecurators.com/news_ba_winners.html

 

EDUCATION

2005­2008  Manchester Metropolitan University: BA 1st Fine Art

2003­2004  Art& Design Foundation Diploma and Life Drawing