Alison Page is an interior designer. She works on a range of projects including designing interiors for public buildings and exhibition spaces for museums. She has also worked on designing large-scale events, public art and landscape design. Since 2000 Alison has lived in the north coast of NSW and runs her own design practice. She teaches furniture design and fine arts at the North Coast Institute of TAFE.

Alison has worked on many projects including designing interiors for the Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Centre in La Perouse, Sydney, designing the Opening Ceremony for the Adelaide Festival of the Arts and the Bayagul Indigenous gallery at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney. She is currently designing an Indigenous exhibition to be staged in Athens for the 2004 Olympics.

Alison believes that each community has a unique cultural identity and that this identity and spirituality must be reflected in the built environment. She and her colleagues, work closely with local people to create buildings that are truly meaningful to the people who use them. By talking, observing, conducting workshops and community meetings, providing employment and training opportunities, these designers are able to make buildings that are treasured by their communities.

Photo 1 courtesy: Patrick Bingham-Hall. Photo 2 courtesy: Merrima. Photos 3 and 4 courtesy: Powerhouse Museum.

 

      

Designer profiles developed by the Technology Unit, Curriculum K–12 Directorate and supported by the Vocational Education in Schools Directorate of the NSW Department of Education and Training in partnership with the Powerhouse Museum. © 2004