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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.

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.

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.

 

Swanfoot (Frau Holle)

Even a Stopped Wheel

Unmaking the Glacier

Reimagining Pluto

Untethered (film still)

Untethered (film still)

Cloud Mountains (from the Untethered Mountain Series)

Tethered

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