Emma Parker

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Was it you who called me here today? I don’t know any more what is real and what is imagined. All this talk of scallop shells and Ouroboros. I am so transformed that I have stopped being me and become more myself than ever. I think that you would...

August 3rd. Would’ve guessed it was October if I had not known any better, but I did....

As someone who started out with what felt like no practice of my own, I looked around for people in the contemporary art world who were already doing the sort of things that I had in my mind. As I experimented with different mediums and processes I naturally found...

Polaroid works for me because they are raw, unpredictable, unexpected. I get a similar experience to monoprint – I never quite know how they will turn out. The whole point and shoot style feels more in the moment....

As Ingold said, ‘in the story, as in life, there is always somewhere further to go’ (Ingold, 2016, p. 93). I would love to somehow digitize my work and turn it into a zine or pamphlet, akin to those I admire so much (Unseen, Rachel Poulton/Justin Hopper, Louisa Albani,...

Transformation doesn’t happen when things are comfortable, you have to be a bit lost or out of your comfort zone. You have to go through the liminal, swampy (Schon, 1984) lowlands to be transformed. The journey through is not straight froward, clear or linear. You have to become a...

I’ve used Blake’s poems entitled ‘Little Girl Lost,#’ (Blake, 1967, p. 136), several times as the basis for palimpsests. Partly because it was tongue in cheek, but also partly because the title resonated with how I was feeling at the start of this module – lost. The use of...

The psychogeography; tracing the edge of myself. I started this module heavily influenced by psychogeography, read all of the books and took a course run by Greg Humphries through the St Ives School of Painting. I thought that my emerging practice had moved far away from the beginning of...