Alison McCreesh

Alison McCreesh is a graphic novelist, illustrator and fibre artist as well as the mother of two young children. Originally from Quebec, Alison has lived in Yellowknife since 2009 and, over the past decade, she has extensively travelled around the Arctic and sub Arctic. Contemporary day-to-day life in the north, in all its complexity, is a theme that carries through her creative work. As a fibre artist, Alison has participated in several artist residencies including in Greenland and in Finland and her fibre work has been exhibited in several non-commercial galleries in Canada and internationally, most recently in a solo exhibition in Petrozavodsk, Russia.

As a graphic artist, writer and illustrator, Alison is the author of two books. Her debut full length graphic novel titled 'Ramshackle, A Yellowknife Story' (2015) and explores the reality in living off grid in what is otherwise a modern government town. Her second book, Norths, Two suitcases and a Stroller around the Circumpolar World (2018) is based on six months of travel North of 60 with her partner and small child. Both books are published by Conundrum press. For more visit www.alisonmccreesh.com