Alison Bailey Smith

Born to thrifty post-war parents, Alison was taught not to waste anything and to see the potential in everything. Her creative practice is very much material-led – designs are influenced by the properties and colours of the combination of materials used in each piece.

 

Much of Alison’s jewellery and baskets incorporate wire salvaged from inside old televisions, finding over a hundred different colours of copper and aluminium wire inside old televisions. Other materials used in Alison’s work include charity shop finds, rubber from exercise balls, scrap fabric and sweet wrappers. 

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