The significance of Alessia Avellino's art - apart from a mastery of drawing technique - is that they are of memorised landscapes. Images may be twisted or deformed but they capture the CHARACTER of the place, as in Lloyds Building
Landscapes are ineluctably bound up with memories - as part of how we order and rationalise our memories. They provide a card index to events, names, people, as well as an environment to interact in. Kristiina Sandoe's art makes explicit the ordering of the landscape by human intervention, particularly the linear, and (consequently) narrative form of trackways through landscapes. Laura Oldfield Ford's psychogeographic method means that her images are always within a multilinear narrative context. Whilst they have many currents the main flow is always one of a critique of the growing inequality of access to good quality environment and "confronting the polite veneer of redevelopment spectacle" . Take a good look at the world around you - these artists are.
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