Painting
2022
Emma Lake is an intermedia artist working with the mediums of paint and sound. Her work explores sensory experiences and biographical recounts from nights out, including club and hook-up culture. The figures and undulating backgrounds of her paintings reflect the rhythmic pulsing of crowds, beating of music, blurring of memory and recreational drug-use. Sound work is created alongside these paintings. Emma’s sound-work consists of compilations of ‘found’ sounds, recorded during her walks around the city.
Recently Emma’s work has explored the ‘reawakening’ of the city after the Covid-19 lockdowns of 2020 & 2021. The sound-work, ‘The City Stirs’, is a compilation of ‘found’ sounds recorded during the period when restrictions where first lifted in the summer of 2021. The work captures the sounds of ‘normality’ returning to the sleeping city – drunken laughter, a busker’s song, murmurs of crowded streets and the rattles of public transport. The painting ‘The City Stirs’, which was created alongside this sound-work, visualises the over-stimulation which many experienced – including the artist herself - once public events and gatherings where permitted post-lockdowns.
To listen to 'The City Stirs', Click Here
2020 - 2021
In my work I have been imagining the different narratives which are stacked as ‘hidden’ stories within the compartments which comprise a collective of flats within a building. We are in the same building the majority of the day, simultaneously moving side by side, divided only by thin walls, cracked ceilings and dusted floorboards. Therefore, as I sat in my room I began to contemplate who my neighbours may be, what they were doing that day and how they were dealing emotionally with the pandemics restrictions. .
My paintings reflect these 'ghostly' companions within our walls - a bump, or a murmer that indicates the anonymous presence of others within our buildings.
To enquire about prices and commissions of work Click Here
