Amy Macpherson

My work is focused around the idea of the "˜urban maze', which is a chaotic, lively and constantly changing place. When in the built environment the eye is constantly distracted, it is drawn to one thing and is almost immediately attracted to something else and this is what I aim to convey within my work. I work with the decomposition of photographs to create new images. By decontextualising and recomposing locations around the city in this case London, it is my intention to create fragmented compositions that question our sense of perception. The new images are slightly skewed from their originals and it is this fragmentation that highlights a kind of "˜architectural kaleidoscope' as one is overwhelmed by the urban environment.



The starting point for this work came from studying the Vorticisists and their appreciation of the dynamism of the modern age which is always a constant reference point for my work. In thinking about the Vortex, "˜It is a violent central activity attracting everything to itself, absorbing all that is around it into a violent whirling- a violent central engulfing.' This is a key theme that runs throughout my work- a lack of a clear focal point means the eye is constantly moving as the viewer becomes ...

Loughborough University Fine Art 2011