Alison J Carr is a Fine Art PhD researcher at Sheffield Hallam University.  She completed her MFA at the California Institute of the Arts in May 2009 and BA (Hons) Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University in 2001.  She works in photography, video, performance and writing.  Her research looks at issues of feminism and femininity, spectacle and spectatorship in the figure of the showgirl.  In particular how the showgirl figure might have agency, how the visual codes of glamour can be appropriated and how her personal desires to be a ‘showgirl’ and a ‘theorist’ might be reconciled.

This is her website; here you will find completed art works and writing, current-in-progress works, PhD ideas and thoughts.  A web-scrap book.  If anything interests you do comment.