Background

Michelle Lord is a visual artist who specialises in constructed photography. Her work explores the connections between literature and architecture and how this relationship can both narrate and represent the communal, historic and built environment that surrounds us.

Recent work is concerned with architecture and fiction, resurrecting landscapes, buildings and text from specific literary narratives that address ideas concerning social utopias.

Her work has been selected for numerous solo and group exhibition in both the UK and internationally. Lord's work has been exhibited at several festivals including Architecture Week, New Generation Arts and the UK International Festival of the Image and overseas with shows in Denmark, Romania, Spain, China, France, Lithuania, Greece and Australia.

In addition, Lord was a facilitator on the award nominated European photography project 'Re-vision', working alongside representatives from Ireland, Turkey, Finland, Germany and Romania. She has completed a number of commissions for clients such as English Heritage. Also, her work has been published in several arts journals including Eyemazing (Netherlands), Fotomagazin (Germany), Dwell Magazine (USA) and The British Journal of Photography (UK).

Lord was educated at Liverpool Polytechnic and the University of Central England where she received a first class BA (Hons) in Art & Design. She also lectures in Visual Art at Birmingham City University.