Emma studied at the Slade School of Fine Art (MA Fine Art), Chelsea College of Art and the University of York (MA Literature). She is a member of the Riverside Artist’s Group. She has exhibited twice at the RA Summer Exhibition, regularly with the Derwent Art Prize, the ING Discerning Eye, and other national open submission competitions. She is shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Drawing Prize 2022. She is a returning Artist in Residence at the Atelier du Safranier in Antibes. France.
Emma studied at the Slade School of Fine Art (MA Fine Art), Chelsea College of Art and the University of York (MA Literature). She is a member of the Riverside Artist’s Group. She has exhibited twice at the RA Summer Exhibition, regularly with the Derwent Art Prize, the ING Discerning Eye, and other national open submission competitions. She is shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Drawing Prize 2022. She is a returning Artist in Residence at the Atelier du Safranier in Antibes. France.
https://www.emmadavisartist.com
Her latest series of Fan Drawings relate to the idea of chance, mechanics, time, space, movement, and the meaning of marks.
education
MA FINE ART with bursary
SLADE SCHOOL OF FINE ART, UCL
MA ENGLISH & RELATED LITERATURE
UNIVERSITY OF YORK
BA hons. ENGLISH LITERATURE 2:1
UNIVERSITY OF YORK
BA hons. FINE ART (p/t)
CHELSEA COLLEGE OF ART, LONDON
p/grad DIPLOMA fine art painting
CENTRAL SCHOOL, LONDON
advanced art direction draughting
TERRY ACKLAND SNOW, PINEWOOD STUDIOS
certificate perfectionnement
FRENCH LANGUAGE
UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE, LYON, FRANCE
solo exhibitions
SOLO SHOW
YORK ARTS CENTRE, YORK
selected group exhibitions
RCA SECRET Stewarts Law 2014
ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART, LONDON
POST CARD FROM MY STUDIO 2013
ACME PROJECT SPACE, London
ARTWEST OPEN STUDIOS 2013
Harrow Road Studios, London
ART NW10 OPEN STUDIOS 2012, 2011, 2010
NATIONAL ART OPEN 2013 - SHORTLISTED
ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART; MINERVA THEATRE & PALLANT HOUSE, CHICHESTER; SCIENCE MUSEUM
Judges Brian Sewell; Dr Barbara Rae, Michael Hoppen, David Middleton and James Green
ROYAL ACADEMY SUMMER EXHIBITION 2013 - SHORTLISTED
ROYAL ACADEMY OF ART, LONDON
Selection by Anne Desmet, Peter Freeth, Richard Maccormac, John Maine, Humphrey Ocean, Mick Rooney, John Wragg
DISCERNING EYE 2012
MALL GALLERIES, LONDON, Selected Albert Irvin RA, Artist
DISCERNING EYE 2010
Selected Mark Rappolt, Critic
DISCERNING EYE 2008
Selected Barbara Fenton, Collector
DISCERNING EYE 2007
Selected Sarah Armstrong Jones, Artist
GALLERY HIGHWAYMANS group show
RISBY, BURY ST EDMUNDS, SUFFOLK
RCA SECRET 1999, 2005 – 2014
ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART, LONDON
BOTANISTS OF THE ASPHALT II group show 2010
CITY ARTS & MUSIC PROJECT, LONDON
ORIGINALS 2008
MALL GALLERIES, LONDON
GALERIE AQUI SIAM BEN 2008
VALLAURIS, FRANCE
SOCIETY OF WOMEN ARTISTS 2005
MALL GALLERIES, LONDON
SLADE GRADUATE SHOW
SLADE SCHOOL OF ART, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
projects / awards
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
2 MONTHS
VALLAURIS, FRANCE
selected publications
BOOK COVERS
Working in the Spaces of Power, Janet Newman
Bloomsbury Publishing
When Parents Die: Learning to Live with the Loss of a Parent, Black & Abrahams, 2nd edition
Routledge
Japan’s Comfort Women, Tanaka
Routledge
selected film & theatre production design
ROLANDO MEETS DON GIOVANNI
documentary. Renegade Films
COSTUME DESIGNER for the presenter
‘A PALACE FOR US’ - short film. Serpentine Gallery. dir. Tom Hunter
PRODUCTION AND COSTUME DESIGNER
‘SINBAD’ - Sky series
SET DECORATOR
‘SECRET DIARY OF A CALL GIRL’ ITV series
SET DECORATOR
‘KING LEAR’ - RSC film
ART DIRECTOR
‘SOMERS TOWN’ - Tomboy films, feature
SET DECORATOR
PETER HALL SEASON 2005 Royal Theatre Bath, dir. Peter Hall
ASSISTANT DESIGNER
DIRTY PRETTY THINGS - feature
ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR
collections
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS IN THE UK AND ABROAD