Emmely Elgersma
London, London, United Kingdom
Emmely Elgersma is a sculptor, painter and ceramist, currently living and working in London. Su...
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Emmely Elgersma
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Emmely Elgersma
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Emmely Elgersma is a sculptor, painter and ceramist, currently living and working in London.
Surrounded by buckets of PVA glue and stacks of newspapers, Emmely Elgersma uses her studio like a surreal kitchen, concocting wonky sculptures and wobbly objects that look good enough to eat (but probably don't taste very good). Creating clay from kitchen products and papier-mâché out of household chemicals, Elgersma's work is rooted in her formal training as a ceramicist, just with a couple of jokes thrown in. The result is an exploration of what vessels mean to us as human beings, like those old Roman pots they keep digging out of holes in Wiltshire but bright pink or baby blue, and full of the heady power of everyday emotions, like the memory of winning the World Cup in 1966 or drinking afternoon tea with your nan.
She is absolutely serious and utterly unserious at the same time. Currently, she's waiting to see if she's made it into the Guinness World Record books for making the biggest ever papier-mâché sculpture back in February 2019. It was very, very big. Too big, if anything. She's recently completed her FA Level 1 coaching qualification so will happily tell you why 4-4-2 is more effective with a diamond and inverted w...
MA Fine Art Chelsea College of Arts, 2017
BA Textile Design Central St Martins 2012
BIRD IN A BIRD IN A BIRD - duo show w/ Winnie Hall @ Art Lacuna
ArtWorks Open 2019 - Barbican Arts Group Trust
Welcome Home, Healing day - Elephant West
PUB: duo show w/Jo Kitchen @ The Function Rooms NW1
ULTRA: Art for the Womens World Cup - presented by OOF at J HAMMOND PROJECTS
Biggest Papier-Mache Pot World Record Attempt with Limbo Gallery, Peckham 2019
'100 Vessels Without a Kiln' Elephant Lab Residency Jan 2019
Royal Academy 250th Summer Exhibition 2018
Harbingers - Clerkenwell Design Week 2018
‘On the Rocks’ Folkestone Triennial 2017
MA Summer Show 2017 – Chelsea College of Arts
Side Room presents Brian Dawn Chalkley
‘Make Up’ – Highgate Gallery
Susak Expo 16 – Croatia
Head 2 Head – Punctum
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