Emily Hawes West Sussex, United Kingdom
I am an artist and educator based between Lancing and Bournemouth, working with 8mm & 16mm analogue film. My films unearth the interconnections between places, people, histories and ecologies.
My practice is shaped by engagements with various sites, collections and places. I am interested in learning-with, attuning, wandering, fieldwork, weaving, fictioning, embodying & blurring disciplinary boundaries. My films are experimental and braid speculative and poetic forms of storytelling. I am often drawn to stories or subjects which occupy the peripheries or edges, or who have been marginalised or misunderstood and I am guided by new materialist feminist strategies, theories and ideas - in particular Ursula K. Le Guin’s notion of ‘carrier bag storytelling’. I am currently working on a series of short 16mm films that entangle places, collections, relics, ruins and artefacts across the South West.
Artwork
Fertile Image , 2022
LOVELESS, 8mm b&w film, 2024
HOLME, 16mm film transferred to digital, 2022
The Blue Hour , 16mm film transferred to digital, 2024
Tender Burial , 16mm film transferred to digital, 2024
Projects and exhibitions
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Knot Works: Artists Screening: Emily Hawes & Maud Haya-Baviera01/05/2023 |
KnotWorks, Southborough | Details |
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Group Show: The Chace01/09/2022 |
SPUDWorks, New Forest | Details |
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Group Show: The Only Thing More Slippery than the Elbow28/04/2022 — 07/05/2022 Participants from the 2019 Cornwall Workshop come back together after the pandemic interrupted several attempts at a reading group. Following on from ideas and conversations that began at the residency, led by artist Andy Holden, they are making work that falls between the eerie suspended seeping state they find themselves in. Process and... [Read more] |
Auction House, Redruth | Details |