Emma Molony Devon, United Kingdom

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I enjoy bringing together a variety of printmaking processes in my work – reduction linocuts, two-plate etchings, drypoint, screenprint and monotype drawings. I’m interested in the different possibilities and restrictions of markmaking and the possibilities of combining printmaking with animation and other mediums.

I first started printmaking at the very traditional studios, Stamperia Albrizzi and Stamperia del Tintoretto, while living in Venice. On my return Devon, I continued my practice as a printmaker with Double Elephant Print Workshop in Exeter as director and outreach coordinator. I enjoyed trying to make printmaking less restrictive and more accessible and immediate, using portable presses to take printmaking out into the community – to hospitals, prisons, schools, festivals, galleries and museums.

I design and make screenprinted wallpaper and in 2009 I featured on Channel 4’s Kirsties’ Homemade Home series – teaching Kirstie Allsopp how to print her own wallpaper. I also wrote a chapter for the book of this series.

In 2010 I won the Alexandra Reinhardt Memorial Award and led a printmaking residency with The Art Room charity in Oxford. I was commissioned to create a large-scale interactive installation for Kensington Palace Gardens in 2011 using my laser-cut artwork that explored the secret history of the inhabitants of Kensington Palace.

I was one of the eight artists selected for Muse: Makers In Museums in 2017, working in small South West heritage centres, responding to the collections. I've also made site-specific installations for The National Trust and Historic Royal Palaces.

My wallpaper, prints, set design and illustrations have been used at the RSC Theatre, Edinburgh Festival, TV productions and in Julian Sayarer’s 2017 award-winning travel book Interstate. I've exhibited twice at the Royal Academy Summer Show.

My work is inspired either by the East Devon/ West Dorset landscape where I live or by folklore and fairy tales – particularly those featuring wolves. I’m attracted to the scope of the fairy tale – the language, imagination and symbolism that engages us all at a visceral depth.