Formed by longtime collaborators Mireille Fauchon, Leah Fusco, and Gareth Proskourine Barnett, DIG is a space to collectively and critically engage with visual methods of representation through practice-research.
Their inaugural exhibition, and forthcoming publication, DIG: Imag(in)ing Bigbury Camp is a creative visual response to an Iron Age hillfort in Kent, exploring relationships between technology and perception in the interpretation of historic landscapes.
Mireille Fauchon
Mireille Fauchon is an illustrator, educator and researcher. Her practice uses illustration as a tool to explore socio-cultural narratives both past and present. Themes of interest include anecdotal storytelling and the informal preservation of history within sites of experience, particularly narratives deemed insignificant or inaccessible. Mireille is currently Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Image Practice at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London.
Leah Fusco
Leah Fusco is a visual artist and Associate Professor in the Department of Illustration Animation at Kingston School of Art. She explores geographic and historic themes in places through mapping, narrative, and imaging technologies, with a particular interest in rural and coastal heritage sites. Leah has worked across publishing, research, exhibition, and public engagement, collaborating with a range of partners in the cultural sector.
Gareth Proskourine-Barnett
Gareth Proskourine-Barnett is an artist, researcher and educator. His work applies design fictions to challenge the historic and social narratives around architectural structures, our relationship to space, and new modes of materiality. Past projects have been presented at the V&A’s Digital Futures Symposium at the Institute of Computing in London, at The New Art Gallery in Walsall, at the REFORM Design Biennale in Denmark, and at Plan8t in Changsha, China. Gareth is a Senior Lecturer on MA Illustration at Camberwell College of Arts.