Emily Joy
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.
EMILY JOY - Sculptor and installation artist
www.emilyjoyartist.com www.giftsformothermnemosyne.wordpress.com
Emily Joy is an award-winning sculptor and installation artist based in the UK. Emily is a founder member of artists group Quercus and one half of Periscope: a socially engaged artist partnership providing immersive, creative public events. She is also a teacher and facilitator of community projects.
Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions:
2024 ‘Geomorph’, The Launderette, Bristol
2023 ‘Unmaking and Remaking the Glacier’, The Museum in the Park, Stroud, UK
2022 ‘Remaking the Glacier’, Stroud Valleys Artspace, Gloucestershire
2022 ‘Unmaking the Glacier’, Stroud Valleys Artspace, Gloucestershire (S)
2021 ‘Message to the Earth’, The John Muir Foundation, North Light Arts, Dunbar
2021 ‘Tree Teacher Tree’, curated by Rachel Howard, Gloucestershire
2020 ‘Absurd Labour’, Hardwick Gallery, University of Gloucestershire (S)
2019 ‘Tide: Dialogues of Change’, North lights Arts, Dunbar
2019 ‘Pro Tem’, Loughborough University Gallery, Loughborough
2018 ‘Untethered’, Mustarinda, Finland (S)
2016 ‘Absurd Labour’, The Line Gallery, UK (S)
2016 ‘Vom Werden’, Kunst und Kultur Forum Laubach, Germany
2016 ‘Ten Degrees North-East of Base Camp’, Stroud
2015 ‘Beyond Perception’, The University of Aberdeen, UK
2015 ‘The Logic of the Supplement’, Line Gallery,UK (S)
2015 ‘The Open West’, The Wilson, Cheltenham, UK
2014 ‘Reimagining Pluto’, The Brunel Goods Shed, Stroud, UK (S)
2014 ‘Gifts for Mother Mnemosyne’, Stroud Museum in the Park, UK (S)
2014 ‘Navigable Waters’, The Canals and Rivers Trust, Gloucester, UK
2014 'Redhanded', Redhanded, Kings Cross, London, UK
2013 ‘Mother Land’, Galerie Im Palais, Germany (S)
2012 ‘Nature; gentle and Powerful’, The Castle Gallery, Germany UK
2012 ‘Disfrutar’, Stroud Museum in the Park, UK
2011 Jamaica Street Open Studios exhibition (invited artist), Bristol, UK
2010 ‘Finding Balance’, The Castle Gallery, Laubach, Germany
2009 ‘Retrace; scripting memory, Stroud Valleys Artspace, UK (S)
2008 ‘The Darbyshire Award’, Stroud Museum in the Park, UK
2008 ‘Locus’, 1 Saville Row, Bath, UK
2006 ‘Why Not Sneeze’, TactileBosch, Cardiff, UK
Educational Qualifications
2005-2006 MA Fine Art, UWIC, Cardiff
2001-2004 BA (Hons) Visual Art with Visual Culture, University of
Gloucestershire, First Class
Selected Residencies and Commissions
2024 Artist in Residence, (upcoming), The Gingerbread House ecological/land residency
2024 Artist in Residence, ‘Geomorph’, The Launderette, Bristol, (2 weeks)
2023 Artist in Residence, ‘Restorying a Living Landscape’ project( British Council), UK (6 months)
2022 Artist in Residence, Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking, UK
2020 Artist in Residence, Hardwick Residency, University of Gloucestershire (1 month)
2019 Artist in Residence, Loughborough University (AA2A scheme, 9 months)
2018 Artist in Residence, Mustarinda, Finland (1 month)
2017 Artist in Residence, The Mothership, Dorset, UK (2 weeks)
2014 Commission, ‘Navigable Waters’, The Canals and Rivers Trust, UK
2014 Artist in Residence, Victoria Works, Gloucestershire, UK (1 month)
2013 Artist in Residence, Galerie Im Palais, Lich, Germany (2 weeks)
2012 Artist in Residence, Art and Culture Symposium, Laubach, Germany (2 weeks)
2012 Commission, The Painswick Rococo Gardens, UK
2011 Artist in Residence with Quercus, Stroud Museum in the Park, UK (1 year)
2010 Artist in Residence, Art and Culture Symposium, Laubach, Germany (2 weeks)
Awards
2017 Longlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize
2012 Shortlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize.
2008 The Darbyshire Award Winner
Selected collaborative work and events:
2024 ‘Wild Dress’, workshops and installation supporting the Wild Dress audio installation, UK
2023 ‘Restorying a Living Landscape’, (British Council) project, Germany, UK and Philippines
2023 ‘Landscapes of the Lark’, creative co-facilitator, (CNL funded), Stroud.
2023 ‘Between Sky and Earth’, exhibition co-curator, (CNL funded), Chapels of Rest, Stroud
2022 ‘Land Earth Empathy’ (ACE Funded) research with Dr E Hodson, Jürg Alean, Dougald Hine.
2022 ‘The Anthropocene and the Underworld’, talk, Charlotte du Cann and Nick Hunt, SVA, UK
2021 ‘Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan’, Periscope talk, SVA, UK
2021 ‘COP26 Pilgrimage’ with North Light Arts, (Dunbar to Edinburgh)
2020 'Lockdown Dialogues' participant, with Diaolgue Academy, Finland
2020 ‘Land, Earth, Empathy’, talk with Dr Elizabeth Hodson, University of Gloucestershire
2019 ‘Going Wandering’ Periscope symposium, The Brunel Goods Shed, UK
2018 ‘Home’ Periscope talk by Dougald Hine (Dark Mountain), SVA, Stroud, UK
2018 ‘Untethered’ drawing conversation, Mustarinda, Finland
2017 ‘Art and anthropology’ collaboration with Dr Elizabeth Hodson (K.F.I. project), UK
2017 ‘Art and Anthropology’ talk by Dr Elizabeth Hodson, (K.F.I. project), SVA, Stroud, UK
2016 ‘Imaginations, Interiors, Surfaces’ Collaboration (K.F.I Project), University of Aberdeen
2016 Collaboration with Yatoo (Korea) and CCANW, Stroud, UK
2015 ‘Another Way to Fail’ drawing conversation, Gloucestershire, UK
2014 ‘Gifts for Mother Mnemosyne’ (ACE Funded) events programme, Stroud, UK
2014 ‘The Wanderer’s Studio’ event (ACE Funded), The Museum in the Park, Stroud, UK
2014 ‘Reimagining Pluto’ workshop and exhibition (ACE Funded), The Goods Shed, Stroud, UK
2014 ‘Memory, Story, Forgetting’ talk by Dr Mark Currie (ACE Funded), SVA, Stroud, UK
2014 ‘Time, Identify, Narrative’ talk by Dr Chris Norris (ACE Funded), Museum in the Park, UK
2011 'Art and Nature' Quercus event with CCANW and Clive Adams, SVA, Stroud, UK
2010 'Back to Square One', Quercus collaborative project, SVA, Stroud, UK
2009 'Beyond the Verge', Quercus collaborative project, SVA, Stroud, UK
2009 'A return to the Point of No Return' talk by Brian Dillon, SVA, Stroud, UK
2009 'Retrace: Exhale' poetry event, SVA, Stroud, UK
2009 'In Negotiation' discussion event with Colin Glen, SVA, Stroud, UK
Publications:
2024 ‘Fingers and Folds’, The Dark Mountain, issue 25
2023 ‘Bouquet’, The Dark Mountain, Issue 24
2023 ‘Art as A Catalyst for Care’, Tero Magazine, May 2023
2022 ‘Glaciers, A Journey Through Loss’, Environment magazine November 2022
2022 ‘Looking directly, Seeing obliquely’ Good On Paper, October
2021 ‘Stopping Distances’, The Bind Collective Online Journal, October 2021
2020 ‘Untethered’ and ‘Stopping Distances’, The Dark Mountain, Issue 17
2019 ‘Land, Place and Home’, Client Culture, Plymouth
2017 ‘Imaginations, Interiors, Surfaces’, Hodson, E. University of Aberdeen.
2017 ‘Future Now’, The Aesthetica Art Prize
2014 ‘Gifts for Mother Mnemosyne’, Joy, E.
2012 ‘Creative Works’, The Aesthetica Art Prize
2010 ‘Site10 Contemporary Drawing Show’, K Phippen/M Ohlson
2009 ‘Retrace: Scripting Memory’, Joy, E.
For other community based participatory work (public, immersive, creative events) please see Emily’s work as Periscope www.periscopics.wordpress.com