Emily is an interdisciplinary artist, born in Australia, but living and working in Berlin from 2017 on. Her practice spans many mediums, including etching, ceramics, silk painting and monotypes. With a background as a rare-book dealer, Emily has an encyclopaedic approach to her art making – with influences from the history of ornament, visionary art and scholarly magic texts. Her work primarily focuses around depictions of older women throughout history, and her practice acts as a form of redemption to the marginalised older woman figure. An interest in magic and spirituality underpins much of Emily’s work, where depictions of female witches during the German Renaissance and the spirit-board as a method of communication exemplify Emily’s scholarly background with a mystical twist.
Emily has been running Big Ego Books with Raquel Caballero since 2015 and was the co-Editor of DUKE Magazine, an artist magazine focusing on Australian artists and thrift culture between 2005-2009. She was selected as a participant in the Goldrausch Künstlerinnen Projekt 2020. Recent solo exhibitions include Jobcenter Aufgelande Orte Psychic Places, Galerie Wedding (2021), The Machine Elves’ Shoes, Sonneundsolche, Düsseldorf (2021) and group exhibitions Existing Otherwise – The Future of Coexistence at Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art, Ghana (2022) and Aliens are Temporary at Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin. Emily’s work has been exhibited at Hans Arp Museum (Rolandseck, DE), Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney, AU) Zitadelle Spandau Museum (Berlin, DE) Sim Smith Gallery (London, GB) Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery (Auckland, NZ) and Monopol Galerie (Warsaw, PL).
