Amelia Critchlow

Parallel Parables, a site-responsive group show in Kirkdale Books & Gallery, Sydenham, London, November/December 2016.

Continued explorations into the construction of both identity and meaning, with hybrid assemblages/compositions using pre-existing and familiar materials.

Here, the development of new 3D work references archiving and the dissemination of his-tory and knowledge through customary yet fractured juxtapositioning and my use of appropriation. By dissembling and reassembling I continue my investigation into the creation of signifier and signified and the worlds we build upon those established and accepted meanings.

An ongoing series of presence and absence explored through the subtle erasures of 'self' in the mirror of magazine pages. 'To be is to be perceived', 2013-2016, approximate size: 21cm x 29cm

'I See' is an experimental collaboration between myself and Laura Marker at ArtLacuna, 2014.

Work comprises found and sourced imagery, digital projections, slide projection, mirror, glasses, lenses and prisms as well as cut-and-paste collages selected from my Book Pages series + magazine page

Dimensions variable

Collaged postcard series, started 2013 - ongoing

Each approximately 15 x 10 cm

Shown at Westminster Reference Library, The Cello Factory, Blyth Gallery, London

A series of cut-and-paste to digital collages + a photographic work were developed to be shown in a public context as part of Deptford X 2013

A2, A1 & photo A0

These works explore notions of presence and absence. Erasure. A no person's land between here and not-here

2013

Each 12.5 x 9 cm

An ongoing series of found book pages embellished and developed using hand-embroidery and collage. Started in 2013

Unframed approximately 27 x 18 cm

Collage and painted works on canvas including embroidery, glitter, oil and acrylic

2011

100 x 75 cm

Developing my photographic work (physical collages) led to a series of moving image pieces reflecting the 'edited scene' familiar in popular visual culture. These sit between photographic and moving image. 

A selection of these were shown as part of my MA show, 2012.

'The Dance' was a result of a residency with Sonia Boyce at Flat Time House, shown in Wimbledon Space, London

'Whose story' is a series of analogue collages photographed (but not always glued down), and finished as Giclee prints, 2011

Shown at the Nunnery Gallery and Gallery in the Crypt, London

Print size approximately 60 x 40 cm

These are animated collages, moving away from the restrictions of cut-and-paste techniques, creating scenes with individuals which combine their 'stories' with motifs from well-known tales. 

These 'physical collages' developed into environments which continued to leave out 'the edges' and remove the bodies

2010/2011

C-Type Lambda prints 50 x 75 cm