Emily Allchurch

Emily Allchurch, born in the Channel Islands in 1974, divides
her time between London and her home in Hastings, East
Sussex. She trained as a sculpture, receiving a First Class
(Hons.) degree in Fine Art from the Kent Institute of Art &
Design - Canterbury 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. In 2015 she had a solo show Emily Allchurch:
In the Footsteps of a Master at Manchester Art Gallery, which
toured to the Djanogly Art Gallery in Nottingham. 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.

Emily Allchurch uses photography and digital collage to
reconstruct Old Master paintings and prints to create
contemporary narratives. Her starting point is 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 together 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 passage 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.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2018 Architectural Visions of a Grand Tour, Sir John Soane
Museum, London
Gloria Mundi, Galerie Rothamel, Frankfurt
2017 Project Space, Galerie Rothamel, Erfurt
2015 Emily Allchurch - In the Footstep of a Master. Djanogly
Art Gallery, Nottingham
Emily Allchurch - In the Footstep of a Master, Manchester
2013-14 Tokyo Story / After Hiroshige, Tokaido Hiroshige
Museum, Shizuoka, Japan
2011 Tokyo Story, Diemar Noble Photography, London
Tokyo Story, Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London
2008 Urban Chiaroscuro, Galeria Galica, Milan
2007 Urban Chiaroscuro, Frost and Reed Contemporary,
London
2006 Emily Allchurch - A Retrospective, Frost & Reed
Contemporary, London
Model City, Galica Arte Contemporanea, Milan
Model City, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, Canada
2004-05 Settings, The Blue Gallery, London
2003 Setting, Galica Arte Contemporanea, Milan
2002 Light Sensitive, East73rdgallery, London
Exposure, Standpoint Gallery, London
A Hill with a View, Orleans House Galllery, Twickenham
2001 On The Horizon, Royal London Hospital

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2016-17 Trace Elements, James Freeman Gallery, London
2016 Merge Visible, Mall Galleries, London
East Sussex Open, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
Fix Photo Festival, Bargehouse Gallery/ LA Noble Gallery,
London
2015 :Xenotopia, Gibberd Gallery, Harlow
2014-15 Small is Beautiful, Flowers, New York
2014 /seconds, Sharjah Art Foundation
Edo Pop, Graphic Impact of Japanese Art, Singapore Tyler
Print Institute, Singapore