Emma Lee Cracknell

Having graduated from Norwich University of the Arts in 2014 with an MA in Fine Art (BA Hons Fine Art 2013), I have since been producing and showing predominantly large scale abstract paintings in LA, London and Norwich.

My practice is rooted in the description of emotion that has no place within the written or verbal language. Through paint, I try to capture the day to day, focusing on the things that we see all the time, often unnoticed or that we simply gloss over but are in themselves beautiful objects or moments.

For years my work was conceptual, distilling colours, movements and marks down to the essentials. As I’ve grown, so has my work. Paintings now are full of colour, marks and joy. They are sponges for all that life contains, and as such are sometimes fraught with anger, worries or happiness.

Sometimes you can tell what the painting is of, sometimes you can’t. That’s the joy of it all. On occasion its probably actually a drawing.

I was selected as the Axis Web MA Star for NUA (2014), I have been seen in British Vogue and Aesthetica Magazine, hold work in the NUA permanent collection and look forward to developing my practice as a artist over the coming years.

2014 MA Fine Art - Norwich University of the Arts

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MA Fine Art
Distinction
Norwich University of the Arts
2013 -2014

BA Hons Fine Art
2:1
Norwich University of the Arts
2010 - 2013

The Minories Summer Open - July 2024
Unconsumed at The Shoe Factory - June 2024
Fraction - May 2024
The Other Art Fair - London, July 2021
N20 Group Show - Norwich, June 2021
Art for Cure, UK - May 2020
Nothing is Square - London, Feb 2020
The Other Art Fair LA - September 2019
The Other Art Fair - London 2016, 2018, 2019
AbEx - Chapel Walk Gallery,, Sheffield
The Maxim of Manner - Anteros Arts
Resist - Nunns Yard Gallery
The Barber Shop Residency
Studio 20, Norwich
Anteros Arts
PINK - The Minories, Firstsite Gallery
The Other Art Fair
The Independant Art Fair
Shades of Yellow
Embassy Tea Gallery London
Various group shows as part of the Norwich 20 Group
(September 2013 - Present)
The Forum, The Undercroft, Bridewell Museum , Anterios (Norwich)
Double Decker ‘Talent Archive’
(Present)
Onassis Cultural Center - Athens
MA Degree Show 2014
BA Degree Show 2013

NUA Norwich

Open for Discussion - PHD and MA Show
2014 (Exhibitor and lead curator)

NUA Student Gallery

Bishops Art Prize
(2013 and 2014)
Norwich Cathedral

Multiple Group Shows
(2010 - 2014) (Both exhibiting, curating and organising)

NUA Student Gallery