Alison Elizabeth Baker

Alison Elizabeth Baker Born: Bulawayo, Zimbabwe 17th April 1956 Born & educated in Bulawayo, Alison cannot remember a time when she did not draw, paint, and ride horses. She grew up surrounded by artists, ‘working’ in studios, being taken around the art galleries of Europe and exploring the magnificent cave paintings (and rock formations) of the Matopos. Apart from this influence, from early primary school she had a rigorous grounding in life drawing with Alec Lambeth at Bulawayo School of Art. Training at a formative age which she considers invaluable. She was educated in Bulawayo. Forbidden to attend art school – her father already had one daughter “suffering for her Art on his income”– she graduated from the University of Cape Town, reading History and History of Art. She went on to further post graduate qualifications in the UK. She worked in a variety of areas: including Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Authority, teaching art at Secondary School and as Exhibitions Designer at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe. Now based in Victoria Falls, she lives, paints and works as a game ranger in charge of her own anti-poaching unit, patrolling daily through wildlife areas. Her work is an expression of this – the suffering, mans’ culpability, the fragility and resilience of the environment, the planet. She incorporates site specific mud, sand shell and bone as an intrinsic part of the statement. She attempts to understand this in the context of histories: destruction, reconstruction, resilience and decay. The planets survival in mutable forms despite us. She lives her work. She has participated in group exhibitions over the years, most recently in: 2017-2019: Women Artists Annual exhibition at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare 2017, 2018: National Annual Exhibition at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare 2018 The National Gallery of Bulawayo 3rd Annual Independence Exhibition: LEGACY UN - IDPWD The Future is Accessible at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare 2019 Rembrandt @350 at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare and at the National Gallery of Bulawayo 2022-2023: “A Book That Cannot be Read”: solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare: November 2022 through to running Curated by Fadzai Muchena Awards: A Book That Cannot be Read: curated by Fadzai Muchena, won NAMA Arts Award Exhibition of the Year 2023. Great work by Fadzai

× Alison Elizabeth Baker Born: Bulawayo, Zimbabwe 17th April 1956 Born & educated in Bulawayo, Alison cannot remember a time when she did not draw, paint, and ride horses. She grew up surrounded by artists, ‘working’ in studios, being taken around the art galleries of Europe and exploring the magnificent cave paintings (and rock formations) of the Matopos. Apart from this influence, from early primary school she had a rigorous grounding in life drawing with Alec Lambeth at Bulawayo School of Art. Training at a formative age which she considers invaluable. She was educated in Bulawayo. Forbidden to attend art school – her father already had one daughter “suffering for her Art on his income”– she graduated from the University of Cape Town, reading History and History of Art. She went on to further post graduate qualifications in the UK. She worked in a variety of areas: including Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Authority, teaching art at Secondary School and as Exhibitions Designer at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe. Now based in Victoria Falls, she lives, paints and works as a game ranger in charge of her own anti-poaching unit, patrolling daily through wildlife areas. Her work is an expression of this – the suffering, mans’ culpability, the fragility and resilience of the environment, the planet. She incorporates site specific mud, sand shell and bone as an intrinsic part of the statement. She attempts to understand this in the context of histories: destruction, reconstruction, resilience and decay. The planets survival in mutable forms despite us. She lives her work. She has participated in group exhibitions over the years, most recently in: 2017-2019: Women Artists Annual exhibition at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare 2017, 2018: National Annual Exhibition at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare 2018 The National Gallery of Bulawayo 3rd Annual Independence Exhibition: LEGACY UN - IDPWD The Future is Accessible at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare 2019 Rembrandt @350 at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare and at the National Gallery of Bulawayo 2022-2023: “A Book That Cannot be Read”: solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare: November 2022 through to running Curated by Fadzai Muchena Awards: A Book That Cannot be Read: curated by Fadzai Muchena, won NAMA Arts Award Exhibition of the Year 2023. Great work by Fadzai

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