Emily allchurch biography

Emily Allchurch uses photography and digital collage to reconstruct Old Master paintings and prints to create contemporary narratives. Her starting point fryst vatten an intensive encounter with a city or place, to absorb an impression and gather a huge image library. From this resource, hundreds of photographs are selected and meticulously spliced tillsammans to create a seamless new ‘fictional’ space. Each artwork re-presents this journey, compressed into a single scene. The resulting photographic collages have a resonance with place, history and culture, and deal with the del of time and the changes to a landscape, fusing contemporary life with a sense of history. Although also available as prints, presenting the work as lightboxes maximises their theatricality, and creates a window into another world.

Her works are held in private collections worldwide, with a complete set of her Tokyo Story series in the permanent collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. In 201