About Me
Emily Redman is an emerging artist practicing in Sydney, Australia. Emily is currently completing a Master of Art Curating at the University of Sydney, after completing a Master of Fine Arts degree at the National Art School in Darlinghurst, where she also completed her undergraduate degree. Considered as a contemporary printmaker, Emily's most recent work combines traditional printmaking and photographic techniques, with a contemporary approach to materials.
Referencing both the traditional and the contemporary within her work, Emily's most recent work, inspired by previous experiences, social and political opinions and medical conditions, comments on the psychology surrounding the notion of judgement within contemporary society. Bringing a largely personal approach to this topic, Emily combines both the personal and the public, in an attempt to portray the behavioural consequences of the act of judgement upon individuals within our modern society.
Artist Statement
The relationship between the psychology and physiology of the human body has been a constant source of conceptual guidance in my work. My motivation for creating art is quite personal, with the majority of my artwork conceptually based upon attributes of my personal life, whether that be personal experiences, social opinions or medical conditions. With references to these influences, and the combination of both traditional printmaking and photographic techniques, I pride myself on producing work that will illuminate the audience about aspects of themselves and the way they relate to others, particularly in relation to societal, political and personal problems. My work, with its straightforward conceptual message and graphic nature, aims to make the personal public in an attempt to change the acceptability of problematic societal aspects; and to enlighten the audience about certain issues that have previously been overlooked, hidden or considered too personal to enter the public domain.
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My current work is a combination of the scientific and the traditions of portraiture, with the work analysing and discussing the emotive and structural aspects of human anatomy and behaviour – conceptual anatomy.
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Education
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Master of Art Curating, University of Sydney, Current
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Master of Fine Arts, National Art School, 2018
Bachelor of Fine Arts, National Art School, 2016
Group Exhibitions
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Reflect: Raw Australia, Orion Function Centre, Campsie
14th of February, 2019
National Art School Post-Graduate Exhibition, National Art School, Sydney
8th of November - 18th of November, 2018
Press Play, National Art School Library Stairwell Gallery, Sydney
26th of February - 15th March, 2018
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Substraight¸ National Art School Library Stairwell Gallery, Sydney
27th of June – 29th of July, 2016
National Art School Graduating Exhibition, National Art School, Sydney
1st of December – 10th of December, 2016
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Press Play, National Art School Library Stairwell Gallery, Sydney
26th of February - 16th of March, 2018
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Acquired Work
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Transit (March 2016), National Art School Archive, Sydney
Acquired December 2016
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