London based artist & curator from Stevenage, Hertfordshire b. 1998.
BA Fine Art Painting @ UAL Wimbledon College of Art 2019-21
I am a British artist and curator living and working in East London. My practice addresses psychologies of space, and the landscape as narrative, seeking to retell stories embedded in the land through painting, whether these be personal, mythological, or ecological, serving to bring out the sense of awe, divinity, or darkness of a landscape that is becoming increasingly homogenised, mundane, and devoid of wildness and wonder.
Combining imagery from my lived experience with references to classic literature and film, I question the tensions that arise between popular representations of the land and its present reality, as well as the role of landscape painting in shaping these understandings of place and cultural identity.
Contact for enquiries: emmaphillips.studio@gmail.com
EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
Papercuts, Aberystwyth School of Art, Aberystwyth, November 2024
This is Eathly Stuff, AMP Gallery, Peckham, London, April 2024
Good Grief ( Dan Levy x Netflix) - Artwork Feature, 2024
Solastalgia Magazine, Terrafurie, 2023
Lonely Stones Press, Issue 1, 2023
Down the Garden Path, Safehouse 1, Peckham London, July 2023
Shapes and Things, AMP Studios, Peckham, London, 2023
Gloaming (solo show), Broadway Studo & Gallery, Hertfordshire, Feb-Mar 2023
The Letchworth Open, Broadway Studio & Gallery, Hertfordshire, Sep-Oct 2022
Soft Earth, Espacio Gallery, London, May 2022
Late Britain Zine, January 2022
Body, BlocParty Magazine, October 2021
Memento Mori, Air Gallery Manchester, October 2021
Beyond Art, The Holy Art (online) August 2021
Final Notice, Wimbledon College of Art, June 2021
Xhibit 2020 UAL (online) April 2021
Hertfordshire Stories Hertfordshire Libraries, Aug –December 2019
Oaklands Collage St Albans, June 2018
St Albans Cathedral, December 2018
The Royal Overseas League, January 2018
Mall Galleries, January 2018
Stevenage Pi Gallery, June 2017
RESIDENCIES
Mawddach Residency, Wales, November 2024
PRIZES
Shirley Sherwood Young Botanical Artist Prize : Longlist 2023
Broadway Studio & Gallery Bursary Prize, 2022
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize : Longlist 2022
WCA Prunella Clough Painting Prize, Jun 2020
Royal Academy of British Artists Rising Stars, Jan 2018
Best in Show: Oaklands Collage Art & Design Showcase, Jun 2018
Hertfordshire Art Guild Award June 2017
PROJECTS
Hertfordshire Libraries' Emerging Artist Commission, 2022
Funded by Arts Council England
https://www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/services/libraries-and-archives/books-and-reading/childrens-library/my-first-library-card.aspx
My Story / Herts Memories, 2019- 2021Funded by Arts Council England and presented by Hertfordshire Library Service, in partnership with Nysa Projects, Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies (HALS), YC Hertfordshire, and Hertfordshire based artists.
