Alistair Canvin

Alistair Canvin (b. 1987) studied at Chelsea School of Art and at the London College of Communication, graduating in 2009, and has lived and worked in Bristol since 2014. He works across painting, sculpture and model making, building hyper-real objects and figures and then damaging them, either with a sudden disfiguring strike or with the slow erosion of decay. The finished work holds both states at once, the photorealistic surface and whatever ruined it.

Canvin has worked with Plan X since 2023, when the gallery presented his solo exhibition Do Not Over Inflate and showed his work at Art Dubai. In 2025 he took part in the group exhibition As If We Were Real.