EMMA LOUISE PRATT
b. 1972, Taihape, Aotearoa New Zealand
Emma Louise Pratt studied at Ilam School of Fine Art, Canterbury University, New Zealand. She has been the runner up in the Molly Morpeth Canaday Award (2005), and a finalist in the Norsewear Award (2007) in New Zealand and finalist in the Focus Abengoa International Painting Prize, Spain (2014).
Emma has been based in the South of Spain since 2006 and has been showing her work with Whitespace since 2005 and in the last few years also in Spain and the UK.
She views herself as part of "the wandering folk." A descendant of migrants, and a migrant herself, she always finds herself in the position of the visitor, the outsider or the "other". She explores in her work the tensions and shifting borders of what identity is in a global present.
With this knowledge and quiet observation of everyday life around her, she interweaves her stories and stories of the land where she presently lives. Her children often collaborate in the making of the images she finally arrives at. Echoes of their drawing and mark making, either free or directed, can be seen in her work.
Emma is involved with the Visual Arts Circle, an international group of language teaching practitioners with an interest in multi-modal literacy. Through this, she explores the practice of being an artist educator and has contributed a chapter to the new publication The Image in Language Teaching coming out in 2017.
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