Large size: 117cm x 164cm (featured)
edition 3 of 4 - £8700
edition 4 of 4 - £10000

Medium size: 81.5cm x 116.5cm
edition 4 of 4 - £7400

Prices includes Lightbox

Emily Allchurch (Born in 1974 on Jersey)

Emily Allchurch’s series “Urban Chiauscuro” is a homage to one of art history’s darkest and most haunting works, Giovanni Batista Piranesi’s “Imaginary Prisons”, a series of etchings of prisons, described by Aldous Huxley as 'the strangest and in some ways the most beautiful of Piranesi's etchings'.
Allchurch has painstakingly collaged found elements on the visual structure of each of seven plates: every detail is a contemporary photograph she has made for this purpose, each image consists of between 300-400 images taken in Paris, London and Rome, then painstakingly put together in Photoshop over a period of two months, with meticulous care resulting in seamless images that are both baffling and extraordinary. Photographic illustrations only go so far in communicating the visual impact of the series. Each picture is mounted as a transparency on a lightbox. Where Piranesi's sombre etchings seemed to be moving in the direction of pure blackness, Allchurch introduces colour and light. Each city - Rome, London, Paris - has peculiar qualities of luminosity for her that determine the palette for the images associated with that place. Light and colour provide a note of optimism that is lacking in Piranesi's dark vision, but this optimism is tinged with contemporary uncertainty and a sense of foreboding.Shipping and insurance costs will be added to the price and must be paid for by the buyer. International clients are responsible for their VAT and other custom's oriented charges.