Emma Godfrey Pigott

Emma Godfrey Pigott (b. 1979, UK) is a Swiss-based visual artist and writer living in the Alps. She is currently studying a Master of Fine Arts at the University of South Wales studying under Lisa Barnard and Mark Durden. Prior to this she was self-taught and one of the founding members of Natasha Caruana’s ‘Work Show Grow’ artist education platform.
She was a finalist in the Royal Photographic Society (RPS) International Photography Exhibition 2019 and won an Honourable Mention in the 14th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards. Her work has been exhibited at FotoNostrom Barcelona, RPS House Bristol and at the 2023 Bienal de Foto do Porto Portugal. Her writing has been published on the RPS Hundred Heroines blog.
The landscape is a key aspect in Emma’s practice: for her it becomes a character and stage upon which to explore the experience of being in the world. Her research focuses on liminality and New Materialism as a paradigm for understanding the changes that are happening in our world especially due to the climate crisis. Working across a range of lens-based media and alternative processes, she plays with the capture and surface of the photograph, allowing chance and generative, collaborative strategies to influence the outcome. She ...

MA Documentary Photography, University of South Wales (ongoing)
HNC Photography, UCA
BA French, UCL, London
PGCE Modern Foreign Languages, Oxford Brookes, UK

May 2023 - Deslocamentos (Displacements), Bienal de Foto do Porto curated by Pablo Berástegui, Porto
June 2022 - Despatch Residency Exhibition, New Forest Heritage Centre and Museum, Lyndhurst
28 November 2020 – 16 January 2021 Finalist in RPS International Photography Exhibition 162, Beverley Art Gallery, Beverley
13 June – 12 September 2020 Finalist in RPS International Photography Exhibition 162, Beverley Art Gallery, Beverley
2 – 27 April 2020 Finalist in RPS International Photography Exhibition 162, Royal Albert Hall, London
15 February - 22 March 'Mountain' finalist in RPS International Photography Exhibition 162, RPS Bristol
4-29 March 2020 'Patina' included in Group exhibition FotoNostrum, Barcelona, The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards
2019 'Patina' Honourable Mention 14th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, Worldwide Photo Gala Awards
2019 'Mountain' Shortlisted for the RPS International Photography Exhibition 162
24-28 October 2018 'I can see the sea' included in Group exhibition at OXO Tower Wharf
2018 Galerie Alpine, Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland