Emma Illingworth
Emma Illingworth is a visual artist working in installation, video, photography, print, performance and text. Informed by a military upbringing in which home was constantly moving, her practice engages with the temporality of place. The mapping out of and reconnecting with past experiences through cultural and personal memory is central to her practice.
Google Maps, YouTube, archival material, the postal system, environmental observations and found objects provide flawed methods of teleportation that she enjoys the limitations of. She is preoccupied with the spaces in between cultural markers and personal events, often borrowing and pulling the things that resonate and claiming them as her own.
Her process is not singular, instead she collages her environment in order to draw her audience in through participatory engagement.
Born in 2002, raised in West Yorkshire, currently living and working in Manchester.