Alison Pilkington was born in Sligo in 1967. She graduated with a Diploma in Fine Art Painting and Printmaking from Sligo RTC in 1989 and with a BA Hons in Fine Art Painting from National College Art & Design in 1990. She completed an MA in Film and TV studies in Dublin City University in 1994.
Pilkington specialises in relief printmaking and lithography, and in particular has concentrated on an etched lino technique to produce graphic work that echoes the strong painterly qualities that she has become known for. She draws inspiration for her graphic work from her paintings. The work is process led and this ulitimatley determines the outcome of the image. She has produced large scale print installations that combine print, video and painting.
Pilkington has exhibitied widely throughout the last ten years in Ireland and abroad. Her work has been selected for group shows in Ireland, Scotland, England and the United States, and she has had solo exhibitions in Belltable Arts Centre Limerick, Sligo Art Gallery, Basement Gallery Dundalk, The Workroom Dublin, and the Kevin Kavanagh Dublin. Her work is in numerous public and private collections including the Office of Public Works, Univeristy College Dublin and Bank Of Ireland.

Recent Exhibitions
2022 Somewhere the Zebra is Dancing, Schonfeld Gallery, Brussels
2021 I Build My Own Island, Solo Exhibition, Model Arts & Niland Gallery, Sligo
​2021 Dubliners, International Painting Bienalle, Zagreb
2020 Penumbra, FE MC William Gallery, Banbridge, Northern Ireland
2020 To Paint The Gloom itself, Terrace Gallery, London
2018 How We Roam, RHA Ashford Gallery, Dublin
2018 The Dock, Carrick on Shannon, Leitrim
2017 Priseman Seabrook Collection, Contemporary British Painting, Yantai Art Museum Yantai China and Touring until 2018
2017 Strangelands, Curated by Rosalind Davis, Collyer Bristow Gallery London
2017 Will We Remember Volcanoes,Solo exhibition, Westminster Art Library, London
2017 Curated by Hilary Murray, Black Church Print Studio, Dublin
2016 Royal Academy, Summer Show, London
2016 Slippery and Amorphous, Contemporary Painting Group Show, Marylebone Crypt Gallery, Marylebone, London. & Sluice at Art Helix, New York
2015 U-turn Curated by Maryisia Wieckiewicz -Carrol, The Library Project, Temple Bar, Dublin
2015 Autocatalytic Future Games – No Format Gallery, London
2015 @paintbritian, Ipswich Museum of Art, England
2015 The Priseman Collection of Contemporary British Painting, Colchester Art Gallery, Colchester, England
2014 Troika Hillsboro Fine Art Gallery, Dublin.
2014 Things Go Dark, Group Show, The Model, Sligo, Ireland
2014 Malevolentos, Pallas Contemporary Projects, Dublin. Ireland
2013 RHA Annual Exhibition, invited artist
2013 Artslant Prizewinners Exhibition, Miami Art Fair, Miami, USA
2012 Malevolentos, Solo exhibition, Cake Contemporary Arts The Curragh Camp, Kildare
2012 The Visitor, Solo exhibition, The Drawing Project Dun Laoghaire
2011 An Encounter, As part of curated Exhibition by Cliona Shaffrey, Arts Council Special Adviser and Cliona Harmey, Artist, Monster Truck Temple Bar Dublin Installation,
2010 One Thing and the Other, Solo Exhibition (Nominated for AIB Visual Artists Award), Custom House Studio Westport, Mayo
2007 Doppelganger, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
2005 Guided By Stars, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
2003 Stem, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
2001 New Paintings, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin