Born in 1974, Jersey, Channel Islands, UK
Currently lives and works in Hastings, UK
Education
1999
Master of Arts in Sculpture, Royal College of Art, London, UK
1996
Bachelor of Fine Art (First class), Kent Institute of Art & Design, Canterbury, UK
1993
Foundation Art & Design (Distinction), University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
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Emily AllchurchBorn in 1974, Jersey, Channel Islands, UK Currently lives and works in Hastings, UK
Education 1999 Master of Arts in Sculpture, Royal College of Art, London, UK 1996 Bachelor of Fine Art (First class), Kent Institute of Art & Design, Canterbury, UK 1993 Foundation Art & Design (Distinction), University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
Solo Exhibitions (Selected) 2021 ‘Mirrored Cities’, Pingyao International Photography Festival, China 2020 ‘Emily Allchurch: ‘Mirrored Cities’, Karin Weber Gallery, HK 2018 ‘Fact and Folly’, Private & Public Space, Jersey, Channel Islands ‘Visions of Architectural Fancy’, Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, UK ‘Gloria Mundi’, Galerie Rothamel, Frankfurt, Germany 2017 ‘Then Is Now’, Karin Weber Gallery, HK ‘Project Space’, Galerie Rothamel, Erfurt, Germany 2015 ‘Emily Allchurch, In the Footsteps of a Master’, Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham, UK ‘Emily Allchurch, In the Footsteps of a Master’, Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester, UK 2014 ‘Tokyo Story / After Hiroshige’, Tokaido Hiroshige Museum, Shizuoka, Japan 2011 ‘Tokyo Story’, Diemar Noble Photography, London, UK ‘Tokyo Story’, Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London, UK 2008 ‘Urban Chiaroscuro’, Galleria Galica, Milan, Italy 2007 ‘Urban Chiaroscuro’, Frost and Reed Contemporary, London, UK 2006 ‘Emily Allchurch, A Retrospective’, Frost & Reed Contemporary, London, UK ‘Model City’, Galica Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italy ‘Model City’, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, Canada 2005 ‘Settings’, The Blue Gallery, London, UK 2003 ‘Setting’, Galica Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italy 2002 ‘Light Sensitive’, East 73rd Gallery, London, UK ‘Exposure’, with Laura White Standpoint Gallery, London, UK ‘A Hill with a View’, with Pamela Wells, Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham, UK 2001 ‘On The Horizon’, Royal London Hospital, London, UK
Group Exhibitions (Selected) 2022 Asia Now, Karin Weber Gallery, Paris, France Impossible Architectures, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy, France. ‘For the Love of the Master’, Dublin Castle & Casino Marino, Ireland Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition. London, UK A Generous Space, Artist Support Pledge. Hastings Contemporary, UK Art Central, Karin Weber Gallery, HK Photo London, GBS Fine Art, UK London Art Fair, GBS Fine Art, UK 2021 Art Central, Karin Weber Gallery, HK 2020 ‘True Fictions: Visionary photography from the Seventies until today’, Fondazione Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia, Italy ‘The Grand Tour’, James Freeman Gallery, London, UK ‘Summer Exhibition 2020‘, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK Artsy x Art Central, Karin Weber Gallery, HK 2019 ‘20/20’, Karin Weber Gallery Anniversary Exhibition, HK ‘Summer Exhibition 2019, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK ‘Inspiration Masterpiece’, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden, Germany 2018 ‘Columbia Threadneedle Prize’, Figurative Art Today, Mall Galleries, London, UK 2017 ‘Terra Firma’, James Freeman Gallery, London, UK ‘Sussex Open’, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne ‘Summer Exhibition 2017’, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK 2016 ‘Trace Elements’, James Freeman Gallery, London, UK ‘Merge Visible’, Mall Galleries, London, UK ‘East Sussex Open’, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne ‘Fix Photo Festival’, LA Noble Gallery, London, UK 2015 ‘Xenotopia’, Gibberd Gallery, Harlow, UK ‘Small is Beautiful’, Flowers Gallery, New York, USA ‘Summer Exhibition 2015’, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK 2014 ‘/seconds’, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE ‘Edo Pop : The Graphic Impact of Japanese Prints’, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore ‘Sense Of Soane’, School of Art Gallery, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, UK ‘Summer Exhibition 2014’, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK 2013 ‘Liminal’, Camberwell College of Art, London, UK ‘The Wisdom Of Escape’, Nancy victor Gallery, London, UK ‘Edo Pop’, Japan Society Gallery, New York, USA ‘Memory & Imagination: Dutch Italianate & Contemporary Landscape’, Mall Galleries, London, UK ‘Summer Exhibition 2013’, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK 2012 ‘Sense Of Soane’, PM Gallery & House, London, UK ‘BITE : Artists Making Prints’, Mall Galleries, London, UK 2011 ‘Edo Pop’, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, USA 2010 ‘Based on a True Story’, ArtSway Gallery, New Forest, UK ‘Perspectives’, Candlestar, Hyatt Regency, London, UK 2009 ‘Paper City : Urban Utopias’, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK Diemar/Noble Photography Inaugural exhibition, London, UK 2008 ‘Transcriptions’, Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London, UK ‘Set in Stone’, PM Gallery and House, London, UK 2007 ‘The Light Fantastic’, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada 2006 ‘Lumiere, transparence, opacite’, Nouveau Musee National de Monaco ‘Making Space’, Corporation of London, Spitalfields, London, UK ‘Celeste Art Prize’, The Well, Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London, UK ‘Metropolitanscape’, Palazzo Cavour, Olimpiadi Program of Culture, Turin, Italy ‘The Boundary, the Limit, a look at the City’, Reggio Emilia, Italy 2005 ‘The Wrong Map’ Three Colts Gallery, London ‘A Digital Picture of Britain’, Museum of Film & Photography, Bradford, UK 2003 ‘Landscape’, The Blue Gallery, London, UK ‘La Ciudad Radiante’ Bancaja Foundation, Valencia, Spain ‘Distopie Urbane’, Change Studio d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy 2002 ‘2 in uno’, Galica Arte Contempoanea, Milan, Italy 2000 ‘And then there was the bad weather…’, LWF Projects. London & Memphis USA2000 ‘Tunnel Vision’, Aldwych tube station, London Open House
Awards 2020 Arts Council England, Emergency Response Fund 2019 Arts Council England, ‘Developing Your Creative Practice’ Grant 2018 Visitors’ Choice Award, Columbia Threadneedle Prize Finalist, Columbia Threadneedle Prize 2017 British Council & Arts Council England, Artists’ International Development Grant 2016 a-n Travel Bursary 2015 Grants for the Arts Award, Arts Council England, Tower of Nottingham Art Happens, Manchester Art Gallery, Crowd funding Commission, The Art Fund 2014 Friends of the Institute Public Lecture, Minneapolis Institute of Arts 2013 Artist in Residence, Tokaido Hiroshige Museum, Shizuoka, Japan AA2A Artist in Residence at Wimbledon College of Art Honorary Fellow, Society of Architectural Illustration 2012 Grants for the Arts Award, Arts Council England, Sense of Soane Diamond Jubilee Pageant Commission, States of Jersey, Channel Islands 2011 This Green and Pleasant Land, BBC 4 film celebrating British landscape painting 2007 Britain in Pictures, How we Built Britain BBC series profiling British Photographers 2006 Celeste Art Prize. Finalist Artist in Residence, Financial Services Authority Visiting Artist, Drawing Department, Alberta College of Art & Design, Canada 2005 A Digital Picture of Britain, BBC series profiling British Photographers 2004 Museum & Galleries Month Award: Most inspiring project. Orleans House Gallery 2003 London Residencies, Footsteps in the Street, London Arts Grant 2002 A Hill with a View, Commission for Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham 2001 London Arts, Individual Artist Bursary Year of the Artist Residency Award, Arts Council of England 2000 Year of the Artist Residency Award, Arts Council of England Route 12:36 commission, South London Gallery
Collections Mr. Hans Michael Jebsen Gaw Capital, HK Link Reit, HK Modern Media Group, HK Museum of London, UK Manchester Art Gallery, UK Financial Services Authority, London, UK Aspen Reinsurance, London, UK Unilever, London, UK Schroders, London Rathbones, London, UK Morgan Stanley, London, UK Borough Art Collection, Twickenham, UK States of Jersey, Channel Islands Minneapolis Institute of Arts, USA Nouveau Musée National de Monaco Galleria Parmeggiani, Italy ACAD, Canada Tokaido Hiroshige Museum, Japan Fidelity, Tokyo, Japan
Publications (Selected) Photo London Magazine: Issue 72. Emily Allchurch – featured artist. May 2022, pp.1-41 Deutsche Welle, Euromaxx: Lifestyle in Europe, ‘Art in Crisis: Photo Collages by Emily Allchurch, 6 min film about artistic response to Covid-19 pandemic. First broadcast 15/05/2020. RIBA Journal. Vol 126, Issue 07. July 2019 ‘Climate change takes the floor’ RA Summer Exhibition pp. 70-71 Wired. December 2018. Photo Vertical interview with Michael Hardy. Photomonitor. August 2018. Interview with Christiane Monarchi. ZARCH, Journal of interdisciplinary studies in Architecture and Urbanism, Issue #9. Arquitectura, mirada y cultura visual (Architecture, glance, and visual culture), December 2017 Hong Kong Perspective: Architecture / Design / People, November 2017, p.16-17 The Photographer, 2016, Issue 2, pp.16-23 Photomonitor – August 2015, In the Footsteps of a Master, Review by Camilla Brown Manchester Art Gallery 2015, Catalogue, Emily Allchurch, In the Footsteps of a Master Ashgate 2014, The Architectural Capriccio: Memory, Fantasy & Invention ISBN: 987-1-409-3191-6 Impressions (The Journal of the Japanese Art Society of America), Issue: 34, 2013 pp.122-139 Photo+, South Korea, Issue 12, Winter 2012, Tokyo Story, pp. 34-41 Sunday Telegraph Seven Magazine, 9th September 2012 FT weekend, 21st & 22nd Jan 2012, London Art Fair Review, Francis Hodgson, Life & Arts p.11 The Sunday Times Magazine, 6 March 2011, p.42 Printmaker Today, Winter Issue 2010, Front cover Digital Photographer, Issue 102, 2010, Text by Dylan Baker, pp.74-77 Frieze, Issue 134, October 2010, Text by David Trigg, pp.246-247 Fotografi, Winter 2008 (Norway) Text by Michael Diemar pp. 28-35 Portfolio, Issue 47, June 2008, Text by Nigel Warburton, pp 50-55 FMR, White Edition, Classical 2008 (Italy), Text by Walter Guadagnini, pp 34-45 Printmaking Today, Vol 17 No.2 Summer 2008, Anne Desmet Old Masters Reborn pp.10 & 11 Digital Photography Masterclass, Tom Ang, Dorling Kindersley Ltd, May 2008, pp.332-337 Arte, May 2008, Emily Allchurch Architetture Ideali by Nicoletta Cobolli Gigli, pp.120-125 Building Design, 4 April 2008, Mean Streets by Gareth Gardner, p.16 Design Week, Volume 23 / Number 13, 27 March 2008, Stone Cold by Clare Dowdy, Back Cover BBC Radio London, Robert Elms show, Interview for Set in Stone, 24th March 2008 Guardian Guide, 22-28 March 2008, Exhibitions Previews p.37 Arts Industry, 7 March 2008, Issue 204, Front Cover Ag Magazine, Number 50, pp.10-11, Winter 2008 Blueprint, Paper City Commission, p.82, January 2008 /Seconds 7 : sci-fi, utopia, roadside picnics, December 2007 Contemporary, Issue #91, Special issue on digital art, David Shariatmadari, 2007 Arte, June 2006, Emily Allchurch Sfida ai Capolavori di Nicoletta Cobolli Gigli, pp84-89 |