Yarli Allison
Yarli Allison (林雅莉) hails from a multicultural diasporic background. As the third generation of British, Cantonese and Canadian diaspora and born in Canada herself, Allison was raised in Hong Kong before relocating to Europe. Her frequent relocations and mixed identities have focused her attention to the collective uprootedness and solidarity of migrant demographic groups. As an artist with a multidisciplinary approach that traverses sculpture, performance, digital, film, drawing and installation, Allison fabricates imagined worlds that consist of her invented survival tactics and coping mechanisms, often in interaction with personas or creatures.
Her works have been shown internationally in numerous exhibitions and film festivals. Exhibitions include Decriminalise Futures, Institute of Contemporary Arts: ICA, London; Queering Now 2021, UK; LINZ FMR, Austria; Research Residency at CFCCA, Manchester; and Radical Ancestry, FACT Liverpool (curated by Annie Jael Kwan). Yarli Allison is the recipient of the Hong Kong Art Council Project Grant, Canada Council for the Arts Travel Grant (2020) and Zabludowicz collection (UK) Testing-Ground Workshop. Allison graduated in 2017 with an MFA in Sculpture from Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, UK. She is a member of Asia-Art-Activism London Network.