ALISON HEATH MA (RCA)

When we consider the city we think about past and present, nature and culture, public and private. A city is known and unknown, real and imagined and perceived in a very unique and individual way to each of us.

I believe we live in a temporal register of the past, present and the future. Our life is an accumulation of fragments, as Walter Benjamin suggests it is those fragments of the city, the forgotten bits that inform our reading of the city and provoke our senses. After all we are never in one mindset, focused on one thing but exist with many gaps and blurs. It was within my MA dissertation, whilst studying Printmaking at the Royal College of Art I was able to explore this idea. Using multi-facet text I investigated academic writing on the subject of the city and imagination. This pre-occupation with the city and our relationship to it is extended to my practice and is an ongoing journey.

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