Alison Reid (b.1974) is a Liverpool-based artist working primarily in painting.

Rooted in experimentation and instinct, my practice is a deep exploration of the tactile and transformative nature of paint.  Through abstraction, I investigate the interplay between material, colour, process, and meaning, always returning to the physicality of paint itself.  It is paint I revere above all: unpredictable, unruly, endlessly challenging.

There is an urgency in my process, but it’s guided by quiet, deliberate intent.  My gestures and colour choices often stem from loose studies and life drawings pinned around my studio - fragments of the body, of presence.  At the same time, I resist the obvious trace of the hand, crafting brushes from found objects and embracing the tension between control and chaos.  Pouring, tilting, shifting, my movements are a constant negotiation with the unknown. In these acts, I search for balance.

My studio is an extension of myself: a space of transformation, curiosity, and longing.  Shaped by survival, tenderness, and fierce resilience, my work reclaims the sensual and intuitive.  I paint in search of the ethereal, the ineffable. Yet, my work is rooted in lived experience, which finds its way in, whether invited or not.

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Education

2025 | B.A. (hons) Fine Art, Liverpool Hope University, UK

Exhibitions

2025 | Crossroads, Liverpool Hope University, UK

2025 | Drudenhaus Collective, Bridewell Gallery, Liverpool, UK

2024 | FACE Forward, Art for Wellbeing, Prescot, UK

2024 | Alternative Layers, Bridewell Gallery, Liverpool, UK

Awards

2025 | Freelands Painting Prize nominee, Liverpool Hope University, UK

2024 | Summer Scholarship 2024 recipient, Liverpool Hope University, UK

Symposia

2025 | H2O: How 2 Access the Waterways, Who Are the Water Turners | Tate Liverpool commission and symposium speaker, Liverpool Hope University, UK