Biography
Being a Nemophilist, the artist spends a lot of time engaging with trees both physically and through research, inquiring into the interconnected relationships within forest communities. Her working process requires immediate connection and proximity with the conceptual essence of the impressions she creates. The work aims to celebrate the beauty of trees and their profundity to life. She continues to explore the most effective pathways to nature connectedness.
Emily was raised in the South West of England in the county of Wiltshire. Being surrounded by countryside, the artist naturally formed respect for nature. In 2018 she attended the Art Foundation at Leeds College of Art leaving with a diploma in Fine Art with distinction. She then continued her studies at the University of Brighton on the BA Sculpture course.
In 2019 the artist worked for the performance and installation artist Serge Attukwei Clottey, preparing for his show Current Affairs at Fabrica in Brighton. The same year Emily installed an interactive sculpture at Triplicity Festival. The same year she worked for the London-based kinetic sculptor, Giles Walker preparing for his exhibition, Monster in 2020. In February 2020 Emily curated and exhibited in the joint exhibition Lazy Susan’s Yūgen in Hove. She graduated from the University of Brighton the following June with first-class honors and was nominated by Brighton University for the Faith and Spirituality Team Wellbeing Prize and Chaplaincy Creative Sustainability Prize in June 2020. In December 2020, the artist was invited to exhibit in the Winter Art Exhibition at The Learning Curve Gallery in Dorset.
Online Degree Show 2020
Wildwood Symphony
Latex, mirror, light, sound.
2x4x4m (WxLxH)
Slow down, breath deep and connect.
Activate, look closer and think bigger.
Connect with your breath and bond with the providers.
Wildwood
Noble persons, skins ornate with time.
Tunneled through liberality and
Gnarled with scripture carved by ageless sanity.
The venerable Earth beings.
Their leaves wave at us like flags:
Psithurism, a song for awakening.
The primordial forest draping with elegance, sculpted by the mother.
Conductors and mentors stand rooted, in crowds.
Wildwoods are not modestly ornamental,
They are sacred and vital.
A workshop one may say, dotted with sitting puppets,
Comrades or haunters of the woods, all children of the mother.
Crooked and awake, accidental give and take.
Tall, tranquil, still, providing everlasting nourishment.
Drawings
Corner View
Front View
Back View
Side View
Sound
A speaker will be placed inside each sculpture, playing the sound piece on loop.
The sound piece will consist of reverberations of natural sounds: birds and psithurism; white noise and brown noise.
Light
A strip light will be suspended inside each tree.
The strip lights will gradually shine from bright to dim every two minutes.
Scale: In Gallery Space
Models
Model1
Model 2
Texture and Material
Images from past work: supporting information to piece
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