ALISON KEARNEY (SOUTH AFRICA)

Alison Kearney is the recipient of the Maude Catherine Bird Scholarship, the E.J.A. Loerincz Scholarship and the Standard Bank History of Art Award. In 2003 she was a finalist in the MTN New Contemporaries Art Award; awarded an artists residency in Switzerland in 2004 and invited as artist in residence at the 2006 NEXT WAVE festival in Melbourne, Australia. Kearney has participated in numerous international group exhibitions and recently held her fourth solo exhibition at the Goodman Gallery.

Kearney’s interest is vested in the contexts of art production and display, as well as issues to do with how value is determined in culture. Through these works, she interrogates the institutions of art as institutions that determine cultural value and influence cultural production. Included in this interrogation is an exploration of the role of the audience in making meaning and contributing to the creative process when engaging with conceptual artworks in the field of exhibition.

This information was current at the time of her residency.