Alison is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist working across performance, installation, and social engagement. Her work invites re-enchantment with the natural world through ritual moments, immersive journeys, and interactive installations. She reimagines spaces for performance and social connection with a strong focus on sustainability. The embodied, sensory relationship between audience, place, and story is central to her practice. Alison predominantly works in public spaces, inviting accidental encounters and moments of the unexpected within the everyday. Her recent work includes large-scale participatory performances and installations with Creative Folkestone, the National Trust, and the Kent National Landscape & Pas de Calais UNESCO Geopark bid. She was recently selected as one of eight Future Wales Fellows, supported by Arts Council Wales, Natural Resources Wales, and Peak Cymru.
Group Site Responsive Sculpture Residency 13 – 20th September 2025
During her residency in Ynys Enlli, Alison Neighbour developed a series of walking scores for the island, including night-time walks and journeys for day visitors, as templates for similar work elsewhere. She also continued to evolve her practice of “dancing with rocks”, building on work she had begun on the island in May and exploring how this could meet an audience. The week, shaped by a powerful storm that raged around the studio, also inspired new performance and sculptural work responding to the raw energy of the weather.
Alison set out to discover what the wind might offer, to experience what it was like to greet the storm as it first struck the island. During her explorations, the tide gifted her a beautiful cloak of seaweed, five strands from one holdfast, each with long translucent fingers, asking to be worn and brought back to life. Together they faced the storm, holding fast in 50mph winds and letting the wind lead their movement in a dance between earth, sea, and air. Throughout the week, her thoughts turned to precarity and shelter, the fragile nature of existence and the island’s many forms of refuge, from rare lichens to young seals, fledgling birds, and human inhabitants. Later, the cloak was hung in Y Storws, a small building by the harbour, a place of shelter as they waited for the boat home, filled with the wild energy of possibility.