About Me
Taking art directly to people with Transit Art, Alisha’s work values ordinary people in everyday spaces and the working landscape.
After gaining a BA HONS Degree in Printed Textile Design at Middlesex University, Alisha went onto work in the printed sign industry, then to teach in Further Education at Art School.
Alisha began her art practise by looking at the depiction of women in fine art, through drawing, hand cut vinyl and paint, portraying female bodies honestly to show women ‘as they are’. Finding herself working in male dominated workplaces, her work questioned how women, workers and art were seen.
Alisha created Transit Art for Year of The Artist in 2000. Using an 18 tonne curtain sided truck as a canvas she investigated women’s working roles in male dominated environments. Transit Art was born and quickly led to Truckers PinUps and further public commissions. In using articulated lorry sides to exhibit her work she reclaims public space from advertising to fine art.
By immersing herself in the daily lives of ordinary people and the working environments she produces site specific work that is grounded in reality, reflecting people, working roles and the landscape, which are large scale, bold, colourful, eye catching, surprising and up lifting. Her figurative paintings and drawings are expressive and intuitive. Observational drawing and conversation underpin her creative process.
Her giant landscapes capture a beauty and quality we find familiar yet intriguing. By placing art in the everyday, Alisha aims to disrupt the ordinary, connect with broader audiences and highlight the quiet significance of those who keep the world moving.
Her work is as at home on a gallery wall as in town centres, train stations and on the sides of lorries.
Her work has been featured on Radio 4 Woman’s Hour and regional BBC TV news. Her work has been shortlisted on C5’s Big Art Challenge and has been the subject of a feature in The Guardian on regional ‘levelling up’, focussed on art and artists outside London and for her Transit Art.
Along side leading large scale projects and commissioned work, Alisha runs her own ArtSchool ArtClass, she currently has 18 lorries featuring people, places and landscapes travelling throughout the UK and Europe.
