Art Practice
Artist residencies
As a visual artist, Eggleton develops sculptural works in relation to site, engaging with the given context and architectural space. She often uses archive material and cultural references as conceptual armature.
At other times, she incorporates body movement, combining the practices of sculptural, spatial and Butoh/ Bodyweather movement disciplines. Her response inhabits the site as a form of enquiry and activation of body, material and space.
Eggleton’s non site-specific works seek to shift and reconfigure established relationships to materials, patterns and geometrical structures. Her affinity for arid landscapes and the physicality of rock formations has informed the several series of drawings and small sculptures. She approaches drawing as an open and experimental discipline to explore relationships between patterns, structure and space.
2022 - Fall Creek Artist Residency, undertaken with 4 other artists including Anthony Pelchen and Trevor Flinn
Exhibition History
Studio presentations
2024 - the drawing room studio practice works at Natimuk Open Studios Art trail (NOSAT)
2023 - the drawing room studio practice works at Natimuk Open Studios Art Trail (NOSAT)
2022 - the drawing room studio practice works at Natimuk Open Studios Art Trail (NOSAT)
2021 - the drawing room studio practice works at Natimuk Open Studios Art Trail (NOSAT)
Selected installation/ performance projects
2017 - Pop-up Temple (untiled dome) at Nati Frinj festival
2016 - MARP ( Malaysia Australia Raft Project) collaborated with visual artist Anthony Pelchen in an outdoor visual art and performance projects at Melaka Arts and Performance Festival (MAPF) in Malaysia.
2016 - flight space, Ansett Aflight project, old Ansett building, Hamilton
2015 - MARP performed in the forecourt of ACCA, Melbourne as part of VCA’s Performing Mobilities Fluid States.
2015 - the space that binds us, multi- site installation project including Alison Eggleton with artists Kasia Lynch, Rosa Tato, Katie Jacobs, Trevor Flinn for Nati Frinj Biennale
2014 - MARP ( Malaysia Australia Raft Project) collaborated with visual artist Anthony Pelchen in an outdoor visual art and performance projects at Melaka Arts and Performance Festival (MAPF) in Malaysia.
2013 - the life of main street – site specific installation project - Alison Eggleton with 4 local artists including Carolynne Hamdorf and Gill Venn.
2011 - every drop counts, Alison Eggleton with Sue Ferrari and Phillip Ward, at Off the Rails Gallery, Dunkeld
2010 - wire it up, artist led community art project, at Off the Rails gallery, Dunkeld, Victoria, with supported from Regional Arts Victoria Quick Response grant 2010.
2008 - Mound ( site specific sculpture), in the future is now Moreland Sculpture Show, Coburg.
2006 - Warm installation in collaboration with David Campbell, Map44, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Fitzroy
2006 - snack bar Artspace Vending Machine installation, Brunswick
2006 - Warm installation collaboration with David Campbell, Map44, Melbourne Fringe festival, Fitzroy
2005 - White Cube Project - group exhibition, Dante’s Upstairs Gallery, Fitzroy
2005 - summer series, Hering Island Outdoor sculpture exhibition, Hering Island, Melbourne
2002 - wide horizons exhibition in collaboration with Peter Eggleton, Ryrie Street Gallery, Geelong
2002 - three sisters at Yering Station Sculpture Exhibition, Yering Station Winery, Yara Glen, Victoria
Selected gallery exhibitions:
2019 - triple shot drawing group exhibition including Alison Eggleton with Anthony Pelchen and Brendan Abernathy, Kavisha Mazzella (musician) at Nati Frinj Biennale
2018 - Dirty Coffee Fuelled Drawing group exhibition including Alison Eggleton, Anthony Pelchen, at The Goat Gallery, Natimuk, for the Art is a Footprint festival.
2017 - Beach Veranda, group exhibition curated by Carmel Wallace, at Wishart Gallery, Port Fairy
2012 - within pattern, solo exhibition at Stockroom, Kyneton, Victoria
2011 - a wallpaper state of harmony group exhibition at C3 Contemporary Art Space, Abbotsford.
2009 - a working pattern solo exhibition at Off the Rails Gallery, Dunkeld
2006 - Ocular solo exhibition First Site Gallery, RMIT Melbourne
2005 - white cube, group exhibition, Dante’s Gallery, Fitzroy
Prizes and awards:
2009 - Acquisitive Award for Beyond ( site specific sculpture) in ‘Lost in Sculpture’ along the ‘Salt Creek Sculpture Walk’ in Dunkeld.
2008 - Special Commendation for Mound ( site specific sculpture), in Moreland Sculpture Show, Coburg.