Re-Visiting the Grand Tour

Emily Allchurch, Grand Tour: In Search of Soane (after Gandy), Transparency on LED lightbox, 106.6x182.4 cm, 2012. Copyright the artist, reproduced with permission
Emily Allchurch, Grand Tour: In Search of Soane (after Gandy), Transparency on LED lightbox, 106.6×182.4 cm, 2012. Copyright the artist, reproduced with permission

The UK artist and Royal College of Art graduate Emily Allchurch creates complex photographic images which draw on art history to make contemporary re-creations of iconic works. My image for the BCS this month is Grand Tour: In Search of Soane, an amazingly detailed and finely-crafted work currently on view at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition  (to 18 August). Read it here: http://www.bcs.org/content/conWebDoc/51058