About

Allison Ksiazkiewicz is an artist and scholar interested in the ways we tell stories about Nature and ourselves through natural history. Trained as a printmaker and historian of art and science, Allison combines her interests and experience in explorations of history and landscape in the making of cultural identities.

One facet of her work examines different modes of visualizing the deep past. Displays of natural history in Canadian and British museums and a broad interest in the curation of palæontological specimens have led her to study of those at the Royal Tyrrell Museum, the Royal Ontario Museum, and the Natural History Museum in London. Antiquarianism of the Enlightenment period acts as a springboard for the development of the earth sciences and features heavily in Allison’s published works and influences her artistic projects.