I Can Buy Myself Flowers

Alison is primarily a printmaker and ink artist exploring the way we express reality through narrative-based artworks. 

In 2016, while studying a Masters of Art in Visual Art, she was diagnosed with obsessive compulsive personality disorder, anxiety, depressive episodes, and obsessive perfectionism. After completing her studies, this diagnosis and subsequent treatment led her art practice in an introspective direction, landing in a solo exhibition examining the mental struggle mindscape. 

To this day, she is still examining stories of the mental mindscape through narrative artworks, while running a busy gallery on the north side of Brisbane.

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Independence is a double-edged sword. On one hand, I want to be self-reliant and able to look after myself; on the other, I need to accept care and love when it’s offered and needed. This piece explores that difficult duality and the internal struggle it creates - the fight to accept that while I can buy myself flowers, I don’t always have to.