David Hockney

David Hockney (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draftsman, printmaker and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century. Hockney has owned residences and studios in Bridlington, and London, as well as two residences in California, where he has lived intermittently since 1964: one in the Hollywood Hills, one in Malibu, and an office and archives on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, California. In the early 1980s, Hockney began to produce photo collages—which in his early explorations within his personal photo albums he referred to as “joiners”. First using Polaroid prints and subsequently 35mm, commercially processed colour prints. Using Polaroid snaps or photo lab-prints of a single subject, Hockney arranged a patchwork to make a composite image. Because the photographs are taken from different perspectives and at slightly different times, the result is work that has an affinity with Cubism, one of Hockney’s major aims, discussing the way human vision works.

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Emily Allchurch

Emily Allchurch is a Jersey-born photographic artist who currently works and resides in Sussex. She uses photography and digital collage to reconstruct Old Master paintings and prints to create contemporary narratives. Her starting point is to visit a location and obtain a huge gallery of images. She then reduces this to a few hundred images that are spliced together to create a “seamless, fictional space”. Each image presents her journey through the location in a unique way, whilst staying composed in a single scene.

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