Emily Scarrott
Emily Scarrott is a visual artist, writer and educator preoccupied by speculative fiction, with a fondness for eggs, orcs and extraterrestrials.
Since 2024, handmade chainmail has adopted sculptural, performative and text-based forms within Emily's practice. She is intrigued by the potential to subvert its historical reference to tell folkloric, fantasy and sci-fi stories that emanate anti-fascist auras.
At heart, she is a treasure hunter; Emily's practice is exposed as much in the studio as it is during ritualistic midnight scrolling through eBay. She explores her interests through sub- and counter-cultural references, fan fictioning (both textual and material), collecting memorabilia, adopting absurd behaviours and always wanting to believe.
Lived Experience
Emily is a founding member of free house, a studio collective in Digbeth, Birmingham. Other key collaborative projects have included anarchic responses to open calls with Dinosaur Kilby, taking methodology from slime mould with Black Hole Club and sitting on the Artist Citizens Jury to examine the broken pipeline of practice-based research funding.
Emily received a PhD by art practice in 2023, having cared for an unfertilised chicken's egg for 4 years. Emily and the egg still go everywhere together, and they are both doing very well.
