Author: brishty

MAAAAAAACH! by Katherine Waters, 2022 Brishty Alam’s artworks are invested with a magical, shape-shifting quality; her pieces are lively, stirred by the possibilities they embody. Unfolding themselves in gregarious and frequently surprising ways, they adapt to, resist and converse with their environments. big-fish, little-fish, card-board-box, a sculpture that once stood tall in a courtyard, paraded […]

If we are to hold water by Miriam Stoney, 2021 Brishty Alam works knowingly with slippages between scientific models (chemical structure, properties, composition, reactions) and what we might call social, cultural, political or economic processes. She reanimates these models in unexpected contexts, both undermining and reappraising the usefulness of a universalising gaze, such as that […]