MFA, Royal College of Art, 2024
Allison Gretchko, a Royal College of Art graduate, is a photographer whose work explores themes of care, consumption, and memory. Through analogue photography and natural light, she creates images imbued with a tactile, nostalgic quality. Her work examines the connections between people, places, and the objects we inherit, focusing on the fluid and ephemeral nature of photographic images. Her project Who drinks your tears? turns the lens on a generational family home, exploring domestic spaces as repositories of shared memory.
My artistic practice focuses on the interconnectedness of people and place through habitual and temporal representations. Focusing on artifacts, inheritances, personal archives, and memory to explore threads connected to care and consumption in intimate and domestic settings. Relying heavily on psychogeography and intuition, I embrace the nuances that analogue photography provides to the unpredictability of the environment. Natural sunlight is my methodological tool to uncover the hidden ecosystems that interconnect people and places.
