Jemma Appleby
Charcoal drawings
12 July 2024 – 18 Augut 2025
165 Childers Street, Deptford, SE8 5JR
Jemma Appleby's work is an investigation into the complex relationship between architecture, landscape and light. Her charcoal drawings use chiaroscuro to heighten elements of space, volume and structure allowing landscape to become the architecture in a harmony of imbalance. The non-narrative architectural spaces make enquiries of the memory, knowledge and experience of human space.
Jemma's fascination with architecture began with the roof lines of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian houses as a device to cut through the landscape and dense, velvet like charcoal surface of the drawings allowing the eye somewhere to rest.
Although she talks about architecture being the main element of the work, truly, contrasts are the main characters. Contrasts between the man-made and nature, structure and organic, shelter and wilderness.