ARTIST PROFILE: Allison Billings

Mixed Media artist Allison Billings combines text and visual imagery in a quirky, humorous and often philosophical way. Her work is immediately identifiable by it use of words, acrylic paint, colour, japanese papers and charcoal, often encased in a shiny, resin finish.

Her recent 16 x 16 paintings of abstracted rabbits was inspired by the rescue of a baby cottontail bunny from the back parking lot of the BMFA. George the rabbit grew to be very, very large and very amorous...and still serves as muse to this continuing series of paintings.

In May she exhibited six 4 feet by 4 feet portraits in the “You are Here” show at the Collingwood Public Library with photographer Lenore Burton. The portraits depicted local people and anecdotes related to them, extrapolated into broader commentaries on life.

She will also be curating the text based show “ Read me Like a Book”, also at the library in September, coinciding with the inaugural Wordstock event. Always onto the next project, Allison has begun working on a new body of work entitled “There is Something I’ve Been Meaning to tell You: Secrets and Lies” examining both stereotypes, preconceptions and storytelling.

Allison’s work is available at Make, 155 Hurontario Street, Collingwood, ON.(705) 444.2228





Visit Allison Billings online!

www.allisonbillings.com