Verity Allison

project funding 2007

In focusing on architectural structures, in particular their interior spaces, I wish to draw attention to our relationships with the spaces we construct and occupy; exploring how the built environment and those who utilise it evolve through the encounters that occur between them. Traces of occupation alter our perceptions of architectural form, and buildings exert a profound influence on our experiences of the everyday. Through the employment of unusual light conditions, perspectives and manipulations of focus, I intend to insert an inflection in the way that we perceive the various forms of space we encounter.

The Juliet Gomperts Trust funding has enabled me to realise a cross-media project utilising processes of drawing, printmaking, photography and backlighting. Through these varied methods I deconstruct and then reconstitute momentary spatial encounters and their representations through photography. The resulting images disorientate the viewer, which heightens their emotive impact and prompts a more active engagement with the work.

The funding supported the purchase of the light-box units that were central to the display strategy that I proposed for this project. These units not only made a huge difference to the realisation of this particular project and the resulting exhibition, they now provide an ongoing resource for experimentation in my current work, which continues to explore concepts of space and the built environment.