Land, Earth, Empathy
Emily Joy will be creating new participatory work and exploring collaborative making and unmaking, as part of the 'Land, Earth, Empathy' project; a 9-month Arts Council funded period of research and making, looking at our relationship with land, ecological loss, empathy and responsibility, within the context of a personal historical journey.
Artist Bio
Emily Joy (UK, 1982) is an award winning sculptor and installation artist. Underpinning her practice is an investigation into the subjectivity and loss inherent in remembering and reimagining; asking how experience is mediated by the imperfect copies of memory/language/image. Recent work draws upon personal, social and ecological narratives of loss, alluding to central-European histories of nostalgia, migration and exile. The use of base materials and everyday objects is a common theme in Emily’s practice, inviting participation during the making and destruction of the work.