Verity Church graduated from Gray’s School of Art, Contemporary Art Practice in 2021, receiving the RGU Purchase Prize. Since then they have been exhibiting in shows throughout Edinburgh and Glasgow and working on the ongoing project My Muses Take Care of Me with Fleur Darkin, performing in London.
Verity’s work develops through the liminal space in storytelling –encountering familiarity and memory, as well as the loss of it, and exploring the unexplainable ‘time before’. They are fascinated by the history of a place and how one connects to it through a primal archival feeling or through the nonsensical; the darker sensation that tails this unknown. Through personal experience of growing up in theatres they use this grandiosity and temporality to build immersive worlds that lie on that line of reality and fantasy.
This piece treads on the cusp of the abyss, inviting the viewer into a dream-like past and morbid presence. It was created through a desire to feel belonging and it explores how people seek belonging in places of faith (whatever this may be to them), grieving both a past and a time yet to come.
