Alan Storey attended the University of Victoria and lives and works in Vancouver. His first major work was the Pendulum in the atrium of the HSBC Building on Georgia. His work often references industrial and mechanical processes. He has exhibited extensively since 1982 including solo exhibitions at the Western Front, Contemporary Art Gallery and Or Gallery in Vancouver and the 49th Parallel in NYC (1990), the Power Plant in Toronto (1990), Indiana State University Gallery, Bloomington (1995), and the Centre Culturel Canadian, Paris, France in 2000. His work has also shown internationally in group exhibitions. Storey has completed a number of public commissions in Canada and the US.