Michelle Lord
Michelle Lord’s photographs depict architectural utopias: fictional structures that inhabit fictional worlds. Working non-digitally, each image takes the artist many months to complete, beginning with the meticulous hand construction of a largescale model that, when photographed, simulates life-size architecture. The results portray buildings and structures associated with particular literary texts and fictional narratives which have a specific architectural significance. Her photographs form a series of carefully crafted illusions. Michelle has exhibited in the UK and internationally and was featured in the International Festival of the Image, Aarhus Arts Festival, and will be shown at The Centre for Contemporary Culture, Barcelona in 2008. She has had eight solo shows to date and her work has been published in journals including FotoMagazin, PhotoTechnik International, Eyemazing and Dwell.