Emily Allchurch (b. 1974)

RA Collection: People and Organisations

Emily Allchurch is an artist working with photography and digital collage. Born in Jersey, Channel Islands, in 1974 she now lives and works in Hastings, East Sussex. She trained as a sculptor at the Kent Institute of Art & Design, Canterbury (now UCA) before starting to work with photography as a material during her MA at the Royal College of Ar. Since then, she has exhibited regularly in solo and group shows in the UK and internationally.

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. She then mixes hundreds of photographs together to create a 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.

https://www.emilyallchurch.com/