Alison Jones is an artist whose work has been exhibited alongside Damien Hirst and Anish Kapoor. What makes her unusual is that Alison is blind. She began life as a painter, but the progressive loss of her sight has spurred her to other means of expression. She’s been commissioned by Tate Liverpool to create a piece involving smell. This follows an earlier work using sound. In ‘Arts, Lies and Videotapes’ she sat in a room in the city’s Blue Coat Gallery and asked people to describe her. The result she turned into an audio piece. Claire Hamilton went to meet her....
