Ali’s practice explores atmosphere as lived experience. Working across moving image, sound and material processes she develops work through extended periods of immersion.

Early work included abstract animations projected across the electric windows of Lux Gallery and into Hoxton Square, London.

This enquiry evolved into durational work, The Long Walk and To Begin, experimental films which explore the relationship between place and embodied experience and exhibited internationally in public spaces, including Trafalgar Square, the Eden Project Cornwall, Glastonbury Music Festival, Manchester, Liverpool, Bradford, Sheffield and Leeds City Centres in the UK as well as Grand Central Station, Union Station, the Cathedral of St John the Divine in the US.

Ali also undertakes film commissions, and collaborates with other artists to create works that extend and interpret their practices.

These films sit between observation and artistic response, retaining her focus on presence while working to the distinct language of each collaboration.

Alongside her artistic practice, Ali has built a career working in broadcast television and the delivery of ambitious creative film projects across museums and publicly funded programmes. She has also produced films for brands, heritage organisations and educational programmes.

Committed to widening access to the broadcast industry and the arts, Ali is a mentor and speaks at schools and colleges. She has taught at Bedford College of Art, Leeds Beckett University and Leeds Trinity University.

ali@alihobbs.com