About
Alia Knowlan is a mixed-media artist, educator, researcher, and designer. She works with foraged, grown, and recycled plants to create an array of natural inks for painting, printmaking and collage while adhering to a low-waste, non-chemical, and regenerative process. By looking to nature for knowledge, she allows the experience of foraging, ink making, and the inks themselves to direct the outcome of her work and deepen her kinship with the interconnected interspecies communities she is apart of.
In her design career, Alia has led creative roles across the board – from design directing at at mental health startup, Brightside Health, to visual design at frog design, to branding and product design for large and small scale clients.
Alia is from Montauk, New York and currently resides in Bristol, England. She has a BFA in Graphic Design and is currently completing her Masters in Multidisciplinary Printmaking from the University of the West of England.