More about the artist…

Alison Harper is a textile artist based on the outskirts of Bath. She is currently researching, by means of a practice based Phd, the ways in which textile art and processes can contribute to an ethical dialogue between art, materials and social and cultural change.

I can be reached on 01225 851425 or by

Last venue for Material Actions

Material Actions opens at Bath School of Art and Design, Sion Hill Bath -opens tuesday 10th January until Friday 3rd February. Open monday to friday,

9 am – 5 pm

Sadly Jonnet Middleton’s pandas have gone to an orphanage

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Come knit with me

Knitting chair

Looking forward to taking my knitting chair and some new work up to Sion Hill tomorrow. Will be there all week 11am to 3 pm fiddling and fretting and finessing (don’t think thats a word)  all

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Crisp packets returned to the world

Canalside Crisp Packet

Recent activities have included returning  packets to the place where I found them; having made the 5 meters of yarn I crochet them into flower forms, attach a label and release them back into the

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Material Actions Exhibition

'Pass me another crisp packet'

So pleased to be part of this exhibition at Plymouth College of Art, co-curated with Textile Forum South West, Plymouth College of  Art and

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Alison Harper is now on facebook

I am now actively exploring the intricacies of FACEBOOK, can’t be harder than making yarn from crisp packets. Can it ?

New Exhibition – MATERIAL ACTIONS

Going to Plymouth tomorrow for opening of Textile Forum South West’s newest exhibition at Plymouth College of Art. My crisp packet work will be shown, cunningly called ‘Pass me another crisp packet’ this work explores my current fascination with

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First post for the new blog!

Hey all,

This is the first post from the all-new WordPress Powered Mighty Alison Harper Website… We hope you like the new blog, if you’d like to leave a comment feel free.

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Alison Harper