The Artist's Body is an Archive. Since 2017, I have maintained online learning logs/blogs, visual galleries of my artworks, documentation of my life, reflections on gallery exhibitions and their impact on learning, and records of my research and writing. 

In 2024-2025, I explored how these public and private online blogs have become archives that are now part of my Body and knowledge.

Public Archives.

2023-2025 The Body as a Canvas and Research Archive. 

Private Archives. 

2017-2018 Drawing 1/ Learning to draw the body form observation. 

2018-2019 The Practice of Painting.

2019-2020 Studio Practice and The Bariatric Abject. 

2020-2021 Understanding Visual Culture (and self-led research on Body Art). 

2021-2022 BA (Hons) Fine Art  Final Research

2022-2023 The Manufactured Body Exhibition and Sustaining Your Practice 

The Artist's Body is an Archive is based on my belief and practice of the mind-body connection, using my Body as research and material, as well as the accompanying learnings, experiences, theory, exhibition visits, talks, workshops and reading in the arts and humanities. 

Further Information.

21st Century Art practices can be hard to define, especially as an artist when you work in interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary ways. As artists, we often work in a place where we do not know (Fisher, Fortnum, 2013) during our processes. 

Using my Body as research involves documenting art and life alongside multiple artistic mediums, including performance art practices, curation, and writing. Additionally, through this process, the Body's lived experience and medical narratives are included, and specific knowledge, connections, and understandings are formed. 

To understand this more profoundly, I have been documenting all of the above in my archives since 2017. This process is a dysmorphic archive of practice that documents a collective, yet personal, understanding of the Body in the 21st Century. 

In my art as practice, through critical examination, no artistic medium is privileged over another; yet, I view it as research through a holistic approach, employing embodied research methods. Additionally, this approach includes reflective theoretical and philosophical research. 

This Archives the beginning of bringing it all together. While attempting to document each Body of Work as I create it, I am researching why and what I am researching at the time. Which artists, writers, and events have impacted me and why? 

The current online version only shows work from March 2023 to March 2025. http://alisondolleryartist.wordpress.com

My full digital archives from 2017 to 2025 are available on request.