Alysn is an Auckland based artist with a northern European heritage.
Her practice delivers an invitation to create pleasurably intimate connections to personal experiences, through subconscious, visceral and emotive interactions. Marked visually by
a complex, lyrical fluidity the sculptural works articulate connections, responses, fragility and strength. Alysn is driven by curiosity about the human psyche, about science and about the social stereotypes of textiles and stitch.

A scientific background, a continuing interest in the natural environment is often combined with a fascination about the traditions of widely differing cultures, times and connections with shared human existence.
Many works are composed of evocative forms and figures incorporated into surfaces articulated with complex, undulating, knotted and interwoven designs. Themes emerge slowly through gentle yet obsessive mazes, exploiting the boundaries of the surfaces and creating subtle combinations. There is a contemplative narrative formed through the patterns and figures in the works, along with the working of a mostly unconscious human ancestral memory swaying in the tides of unseen forces.

Recent awards for selected exhibitions include:

Mandurah Wearable Art (Australia) for ‘What Lies Beneath’;

‘Wall Brooches II’, (Australia) for ‘Taniwha’;

‘Changing Threads’ Nelson Arts ‘Bernina Award’ for ‘The Space Between VII’.