British Museum acquire Emily Allchurch's Tokyo Story series

We congratulate Emily Allchurch on the British Museum’s acquisition of the complete set of her 2011 series Tokyo Story for their permanent collection. Paying homage to Utagawa Hiroshige’s last great work, One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (1856-58), the series transposes his distinctive woodblock technniques of abstraction, vivid colouring and composition into contemporary digital photographic collages of Tokyo. One of the ten works will be exhibited as part of the Museum’s upcoming show, Hiroshige - Artist of the Open Road, opening on May 1st and continuing until 7the September. Another will be on view in the Japanese Gallery throughout the exhibition. The BM is the second institution to acquire the entire series after the Minneapolis Institute of Art in 2011.