’Emma Witter is an artist that dreams with her hands and works to another time, where nothing is disposable and everything she touches might turn to gold. Working intuitively with found and rescued biomass – by-products of London’s restaurant industry or salvaged mud larking on the banks of the river Thames – her sculptures are sensational and beguiling. Witter breathes new life into lost things, and shows us value where we saw only waste. Her process is alchemical, transforming what has been discarded into what must be saved, and her art speaks to our contemporaneous notion of the sublime.’
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Nico Kos Earle, 2023
Education:
MFA Art & Humanities
Royal College of Art – 2026
BA Performance Design and Practice
Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design – 2012
1st class hons
Foundation Diploma: Art and Design
London College of Fashion – 2011
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Awards / Grants:
Developing the Creative Practice Grant
Barcapel Foundation, 2022 : Recipient
‘Death’ Photo Competition
WTLF Mag X Omved Gardens, 2020 : Shortlisted
Eccentric Artist of the Year
The Eccentric Club Awards, 2015 : Winner
Bloom Award
Warsteiner, 2014 : Shortlisted
New Business Award
UAL Enterprise Awards, 2014 : Winner
Start up Fund
Princes Trust Enterprise Programme, 2014: Recipient
Seed Fund
UAL Creative Enterprise, 2014: Winner
Personal / Non Published Award
Creative Review Photo Annual, 2014 : Winner
Hix Award
Hix Art Gallery, 2014 : Shortlisted
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Residencies:
A.P.A.P Art Space
Seoul: Dec 23
Selfridges & Picton Studios
London : April – Oct 21
Xenia Creative Retreat
Hampshire : Jan – Feb 21
Sarabande Foundation
London : Oct 18 – Oct 19
Mark Hix’s Tramshed Restaurant
London : Jan 18 – March 18
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Solo Exhibitions:
Small Ceremonies
A.P.A.P Art Space, Seoul : Dec 23
Victorian Gold
London Craft Week – 153c Fulham Road : May 23
A Moveable Feast
The Portman Estate – 75 Gloucester Place : Nov 22
Remember You Must Die
Sarabande Foundation : Sept 19
BLOOM
Hix Art Gallery: March 18
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Selected Group Exhibitions:
Mirror of Mysteries: Women Artists and the Surreal Legacy
La Boulangerie, Paris : Oct 24
Curated by Huma Kabakci
Objects for a Heavenly Cave
Marta Gallery Los Angeles : Sept 24
Curated by Krista Mileva-Frank
The Journey of Life
Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice : Sept 24
Curated by Michelangelo Foundation
The Material Way
Øens Have, Copenhagen : June 24
Curated by Rita Trindade
The Gilded City
Painters Hall : May 24
Curated by the Painter Stainers Art Society
Crafted in Metal
Gallery Fumi : April-May 24
Curated by Sam Pratt & Valerio Capo
Linear Construction
17 Midland Rd, Bristol : Nov 23
Curated by Smithson Projects
Terra Burgundy
Couvent de Jacobins, Burgundy : Oct 23
Curated by Jenn Ellis & Emie Diamond
Colour, Texture, Substance, No Name
Kingsgate Project Space : July 23
Curated by Robyn Graeme for Warbling Collective
In Residence |||
Cromwell Place : June 23
With Ting Ying Gallery, curated by Brian Kennedy
Uncommon Beauty
Makers Guild Wales : April / May 23
Curated by Verity Pulford
Claylarks
The New Craftsmen Gallery : Sept 22
Curated by Catherine Lock
Leave the road; take the trail
Xenia Creative Retreat: May 22
Curated by Sarah Griffin and Bianca Roden
Death & Animals
Odem Atelier Gallery, Stockholm : Oct 21
Curated by Nikodem Calczynski
Together – The Power of Collaboration
Gallery Fumi : Sept 21
Curated by Sam Pratt & Valerio Capo
Triggered Economics
34 Bruton Street – June 21
Curated by Emma Witter & Jonah Pontzer
Crafting a Difference
SoShiro Gallery: Jan – March 21
With Ting Ying Gallery, curated by Brian Kennedy
House of Bandits
Sarabande Foundation at Burberry: Oct – Dec 20
Curated by Trino Verkade
Blanc De Chine Contemporary
The Scottish Gallery: Oct 20
With Ting Ying Gallery, curated by Brian Kennedy
It’s Good To Be Home
Gallery Fumi : Sept – Dec 20
Curated by Sam Pratt & Valerio Capo
Of Time and Place
@livingobject Virtual Exhibition : Oct 20
Curated by Philip Hughes & Vanessa Hogge
Vegetate
@the_vegetate_project : April 20
Curated by Anna Souter
Repeat
Rear Window London, Masons Yard : Dec 19
With Ting Ying Gallery, curated by Brian Kennedy
Florid
Rear Window London, Masons Yard : Nov 19
With Ting Ying Gallery, curated by Brian Kennedy
Artists For Blue
Andrea Hamilton Studio : Nov 19
Curated by Nico Kos for Blue Marine Foundation
Stable
Sarabande Foundation: August 19
The Lee Alexander McQueen Foundation, annual group show
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Fairs:
PAD London
Gallery FUMI : Oct 24
Design Miami – LA Debut at the Holmby Hills Estate
Gallery FUMI : May 24
Design Miami
Gallery FUMI : Dec 23
Eye of the Collector at Two Temple Place
Ting Ying Gallery : Sept 21
Platform at London Art Fair
Ting Ying Gallery: Jan 21
Collect at Somerset House
Ting Ying Gallery : Feb 20
Lapada Art & Antiques Fair
Sarabande Foundation : Sept 19
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Talks:
London Art Fair Edit
Panel discussion with Grant Gibson : Jan 21
Living Object Gallery Tag Talk with Romilly Saumarez-Smith
‘Of Time and Place’ Exhibition : Oct 21
Booth Talk with Ting Ying Gallery
Collect Art Fair : Feb 20
Central Saint Martins – Special Lecturer
Enterprise and Opportunities Sessions : Jan 17
Central Saint Martins – Special Lecturer
Diversity Matters Week : April 16
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Affiliations:
Homo Faber Guide For Contemporary Master Craftsmanship
Michelangelo Foundation
Freeman of The City of London
Guild of Freemen of the City of London
Painter Stainers Arts Society
Freeman of The Worshipful Company of Painter Stainers
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