Emma Copley

Please visit for more information. Glimpses of the everyday and human connection are ongoing threads within Emma Copley’s work. Each painting is inspired by everyday life: a dark sink full of dishes with the sun coming in the window, or her son and daughter sitting with their backs to her, watching TV. She takes pictures of these moments; make notes on colour and sketches. Using the photo as a starting point she creates the composition on panel and eliminates areas from the image in order to intensify the emotion.

Born in Dublin, Ireland, raised on the East Coast of the US and currently living in the UK. Emma has a BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MA in Fine Art from Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge School of Art. She was one of 25 artists shortlisted in The Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize 2016 and was a semi-finalist in the Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year Award in 2015. Emma has shown her works internationally in exhibitions and fairs in the UK, the US, and Italy, including the ING Discerning Eye exhibition, Lynn Painter Stainers Prize, and The Other Art Fair (London). She had a solo exhibition at The Hospital Club in London 2017, completed an artist residency at Stephen Perse Foundation in ...

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The Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
2016 - 2017 MA Fine Art, Distinction

Rhode Island School Of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
1997 – 2001 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting

European Honours Programme, Rome, Italy
2000 – 2001 Rhode Island School Of Design Honours Programme

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Awards 2020 Jan, Grant, Path Society, Art workshops, applied w/Doctor
2019 Aug, Grant, Cambridge University Library, 24 Portraits, Site Specific Installation
2018 Winner Habitat x Other Art Fair Award AW18
2018 The Other Art Fair London
2017 Longlisted, Painting Now, Studio 1 Gallery
2017 May MA Degree Show Ruskin Gallery
2017 Mar Sustainability Prize, Ruskin Gallery
2016 Selected for ING Discerning Eye Nov
2016 Shortlisted (final judging stage) for The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition Exhibition
2016 Shortlisted for The Ashurst Emerging Art Prize, London
2016 Pre-Selected, (final judging stage) New English Art Club Annual Exhib
2016 Selected for the Lynn Painter Stainers Exhibition, Mall Galleries
2015 Winner of Trelissick Heat, Semi Finalist for Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year
2015 Selected for ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London 12-22 Nov
2015 Shortlisted (final judging stage) National Open Art Competition
2014 Award funding, Access Art / Arts Council East UK, 40 Artists Educators
2012 Runner-Up, Creative Quarterly's 28th Int’l Competition, Best of Art and Design
2012 Awarded New York State Grant, Education

Group Exhibitions
2019 Jun, Summer Open ARB Gal...