The phrase "attention upward" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to direct someone's focus or awareness to something above or higher in position or importance.
Example: "During the presentation, the speaker asked the audience to direct their attention upward to the screen displaying the key points."
Alternatives: "focus above" or "look up".
"Pee before I leave," she instructed, then turned her attention upward.
He turned his attention upward, to the corner patch of woods that no farmer of these acres, for some reason, had ever bothered to cut, de-stump, and plow.
Turning our attention upward, we caught sight of the old Gare de Charonne, a railway station sitting royally atop a narrow bridge, which was transformed in the 1990s into one of the city's most important rock 'n' roll clubs, La Flèche d'Or.
Directing the attention upward now made the robot move forward while directing the attention to the left and right resulted in a turn to the respective direction.
Our attention drifts upward — now that the fireworks and the headlights are gone, the stars seem brilliant, clustered together like the lights of some faraway city.
There were no misstatements about the price of the pound, and Cairn Energy was paying close attention to the upward movement in the currency market.
Vince Cable – who used a speech on Wednesday to draw attention to the upward mobility in his own story, mobility Mr Clegg cannot match – lost the political argument on tuition fees, but prevailed on protections for students from humbler homes.
While President Obama's push to raise federal income taxes for the wealthy gets lots of attention, the continuing upward creep in the sales tax rates imposed by state and local governments has gotten less notice.
Why should students and faculty — and everyone who cares about them — pay close attention to the upward spiral of such salaries?
He directed my attention to a leaf pointing upward.
He stood, as if to acknowledge the inspector's attentions, but didn't glance upward, possibly not wishing to incur rebuke, or perhaps he had merely grown incurious about what were, for him, routine operations.
