Emily Allchurch “Multi-Storied: Photo-Collages"

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The Association of Jersey Architects sponsored by C Le Masurier are excited to announce Emily Allchurch, an internationally acclaimed Jersey born artist, visited Jersey to give a talk about "Multi-Storied: The Architectural Collages of Emily Allchurch". This event took place on the first floor of Jersey Library, Halkett Place, St Helier.

Emily will examine how architecture and the city has inspired her practice, and how her intricate digital-collage technique of recreating Old Master paintings and prints from a contemporary perspective, has proved a useful device for her own explorations around place and culture, infusing present-day narratives with a sense of history.

She will explain why the ‘Tower of Babel’ is such an important recurring motif in her work, the influence of Piranesi and the architectural capriccio, paying homage to the architectural oeuvre of Sir John Soane, her enthusiasm for responding to locations further afield, such as China and Japan, and her experience in the realm of public art.

A complimentary drink will be available from 5:45pm in TheEagle Lab with the talk starting at 6:15pm in the Reference Zone, followed by a Q&A session.

About Emily

Emily Allchurch, born 1974 in Jersey, Channel Islands, trained as a sculptor, receiving a First Class (Hons.) degree in Fine Art from the Kent Institute of Art & Design, Canterbury (now UCA) in 1996, and an MA from the Royal College of Art in 1999, where she began working with photography as a material. Since then, she has exhibited regularly in solo and group shows in the UK and internationally. Her works are held in the permanent collections of the Royal Academy of Arts (London), Museum of London, Manchester Art Gallery, Minneapolis Institute of Art (USA), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy (France), and Tokaido Hiroshige Museum of Art (Japan), amongst others.

Emily sources and photographs buildings and urban landscapes, which she then uses to recreate old master scenes from a contemporary perspective.

As befitting a former sculptor, Emily uses the historic artwork as armature on which to build her collages. Meticulously splicing together hundreds of photographs, she creates an immensely detailed new fictional space underpinned by a strong social narrative.

www.emilyallchurch.com

Instagram: @emilyallchurch

(Portrait Credit © Caroline Dyal)