Alison Stott is a glass and light artist exploring relationships between maker, material, light and viewer. Her work embraces the "chaos, indeterminacy and visceral physical materiality" of molten glass – a process she describes as “playing with lava." Stott is particularly interested in caustics, the shifting light patterns we see at the bottom of swimming pools or through a glass of water. Moreover, she believes that the way viewers engage with her work is an essential part of the art itself – their perception and participation activate the sculptures. After over 20 years in visual effects, Stott completed an MA in Glass in 2025. She was shortlisted for the ArtEvol Prize in 2025 and was a John Ruskin Prize 2026 finalist. Her installation Entangling with Light explores co-creation through a rotating glass form, where light, reflection and viewer presence generate shifting caustic patterns.