Jemma Appleby’s work is an investigation into the complex relationship between architecture and landscape.
The forest landscape is used as a haven for solitude and calmness, where the slightest change can result in phenomenological moments which twist the already sublime environment into moments of questioning.
As with the forest, architecture has been a focus in the work, referencing utopias and enriched futures. Architectural forms have been used to explore the themes of shelter and protection by generating structures of physical impossibility.
The ‘Still-life landscapes’ are a development of planar forms that allow the landscape image to become an object in its own right. Using architectural based forms, focusing on the intersection of architectural planes, the drawing process offers the opportunity to look at structures and volumes in a distinctive way, allowing new worlds and possibilities to be discovered in both realities.
Elements of the structure are heightened in order to allow the landscape to become the architecture in a harmony of imbalance. They have become entwined and play with the perception of reality and illusion by creating a relationship between encounter of the natural world and invention.