Artist Talk - Alison Tedesco

Step into a world where memory, material, and time quietly converge. Join artist Alison Tedesco as she shares the deeply personal and tactile practice behind her evocative miniature works.

Rooted in nostalgia and shaped by time spent at her grandmother’s home, Tedesco’s work reflects an enduring fascination with architecture in transition, the shift from care to neglect, from newness to decay. Through meticulously crafted surfaces of peeling paint, weathered textures, and layered marks, she reveals the unseen histories embedded within forgotten spaces.

Working with repurposed materials such as high-density foam, cardboard, plastic, grout and model-making elements, Tedesco transforms the discarded into something quietly powerful. Her process, beginning with site photography and evolving into sculptural forms that are built up, broken down, and reworked, mirrors the very erosion and resilience she seeks to capture.

In this talk, Tedesco will discuss her instinctive, hands-on approach and the emotional resonance of working in miniature. She invites viewers to slow down, look closely, and sense the subtle weight of passing time, where architecture becomes a vessel for memory, loss, and quiet stillness.

Come and experience a practice that turns small details into profound reflections on change, history, and the fragile traces we leave behind.