Largely influenced by her own childhood, her work speaks both personally and universally in the equally tender and harsh qualities of nostalgia that come to contextualise her sculptures. Her works are frequently inspired by her own childhood memories and children’s puppet shows and toys. She enjoys using sculpture as a method of probing the impossiblity of preserving fleeting memories from her youth.
Emilia works with intention of encouraging the audience to rediscover their own (perhaps repressed) states of childlike fascination and wonder through inviting interaction and play with her work. Her often anthropomorphic sculptures are often heavily process-driven and intuitively led by the textural qualities of different mediums.
Emilia is also the co-curator of multiple independent Exhibitions in situated in Glasgow and London. Her exhibitions aim to curatorially challenge the contemporary art-world by giving a platform to young and emerging artists.
Emilia’s sculptural work mainly centres around soft-sculpture and textiles. She is a graduate of the Sculpture and Environmental Art proramme at the Glasgow School of Art.
Founder of Bad Art Collective
‘I’m shocked at [Emilia’s] level of professionalism. I’ve worked with literally hundreds of artists; blue chip gallery to punk rockers and it is rare that someone is so professional, proper, direct and so kind and humble at the same time, truely it is a joy to work with [Emilia], everyone feels it!’