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Emily Joy

Stroud
Socially and environmentally engaged installation artist. Collaborative and participatory works exploring ecological and personal loss, and empathy.
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Emily Joy is a visual artist making environmentally and socially engaged sculpture, installation and participatory works.

Current work is concerned with ecological and personal loss, relationships with the other-than-human, and how empathy can be developed through shared space and stories. Myths and personal narratives combine with a tangle of reimagined object histories, Swiss Alpine nostalgia, glacial loss and absurd human drives to preserve what we are destroying.

Moving between intimate, self-reflexive process drawing, and large-scale earth- and clay- based works that challenge our perceptions of self and other, her work invites others to be complicit in the creation, recreation or destruction of the work through collaborative and participatory actions, and immersive installations which draw upon multiple personal and public narratives.

Underpinning her practice is an investigation into the subjectivity and loss that is inherent in the act of remembering and reimagining; including why and how experience is mediated by the imperfect copies of memory, language and image.

 

 

The Many Faces

All of us Beings

Swanfoot (Frau Holle)

Stories of Snow

Unweaving and Reweaving the Commons

Wild Dress

Unmaking the Glacier

FIngers and Folds

Even a Stopped Wheel

Imagined Mountains

Reimagining Pluto

Untethered (film still)

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Highlights: 23 - 29 June, 2025

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