Alison Dollery  is a Visual Artist, Writer, Researcher and Curator who employs the materiality of her own body as both the medium and canvas (Body as a Canvas) for her work, engaging in a diverse array of artistic forms, expanding practices of drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, performance/body art, and writing. 

These forms are all unified around the lived experience of her body, which she refers to as having a "Manufactured Body". Her art practice and research have been deeply influenced by her long term health conditions, stigmatisation of the body and her journey of drastic weight loss and body transformation. Using her body as a canvas and research allowing her to assert ownership over her embodied experiences. 

Describe by her peers as making ground breaking work. Alison is believed to be the first British artist that is using their body to show a body that has been medically transformed and manipulated through surgical interventions in contemporary society (Bariatric Surgery) . A body that has been every dress size from a size 8-26. Her work on body image is thought provoking and changes perceptions of what a body can be.

"I use my body because it's the material I know the best; it's malleable, transformable, ethical and honest"...

"We (our bodies/ourselves) are just material constructed by language, knowledge and experience"

(Dollery, 2020-2024)