Emily Allchurch
I went to the Artist Talk by Emily Allchurch and Laura Noble at the Daiwa anglo-japanese Foundation 17 th feb.
Emily Allchurch makes digital photographic paintings using hundreds of photographs to recreate masterpieces for modern times. The talk was fascinating discovering how she’d painstakingly worked on each piece for a month and hearing of the little references that she inserted into the work. Thinking about a lecture we had at college today and the notion from George Agambo of the untimliness of history, i.e. things from the past that can be used contemporarily today. I see this remodeling and juxtaposition of history and present in Emily’s work, she is bowing to the past and exposing the present, there is no nostalgia in her work.
