Very excited to share this film by @kalinapulit capturing my latest installation ‘Protean (A Resolution)’
Two vertical sculptures, made by embedding water-cut copper within translucent silicone, are joined by a copper walkway. As a viewer walks along the walkway vibrations from their footsteps activate the sculptures, causing them to dance and quiver.
In my work I am interested in conceiving both the audience and sculpture as active participants.
Thank you @kalinapulit for your dedication, hard work and vision. A dream team ❤️
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Hi everyone, I’m posting this to introduce myself. My name is Emily Woolley and I’m an artist and educator. I am also one of this year’s Zsuzsi Roboz scholars at Morley College along with @celiamora7746
The Scholarship is awarded to two artists each year via open call. Recipients are offered one year’s part-time programme of free classes at Morley College, personal tutoring and mentoring from a professional artist and teacher, and an opportunity to exhibit work in the Morley Gallery at the end of the year.
Starting in September 2024, I have spent the last few months diversifying my skill set by learning new processes and techniques through workshops at Morley college. So far I have explored metalworking, copper smithing, forging, puppetry and kinetic sculpture.
Over the coming months I will post snippets from these workshops as well as new sculptures that I am making utilising skills and knowledge gained via the scholarship.
I look forward to sharing this journey with you!
Week 3 of my funded 10 weeks with @morleysculpture
My confidence and skill in fold forming copper is growing. I am playing with different folds to learn what forms can be made and also with how forms might connect.
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Week 2 of my funded 10 weeks with @morleysculpture
This week I was trying to fold form 1.2 mm thick copper using a scoring technique pioneered by jewellers and typically used with thinner sheet material. It was a frustrating and humbling experience with many failed attempts and, knowing how practice works, will probably reveal itself in time to be a pivotal learning moment!
This post is a gentle reminder to myself (and anyone else that it resonates with) that this is what learning a new skill actually looks like. These are my first two attempts fold forming copper sheet along scoured lines. A humbling distance from the reference image but a start!
‘Undying Love’ (2026) and ‘If she doesn’t come back, our love will expire’ (2026). Coloured pencil on paper.
Part of a new series of drawings exploring objects as emotional conduit and an ode to Hong Kong film maker Wong Kar-wai. The can of pineapples in these drawings if from his 1994 film Chungking Express.
I’ve been lucky enough to receive funding to spend 10 weeks at the Morley College metal workshop in Pelham Hall. @morleysculpture
During this time, I’ll be developing experimental forming and patination processes for copper, which I hope will inform a new body of work.
I’ll be sharing bits of what I get up to each week - here’s Week 1!
Patterns of Use (2026)
Coloured pencil on paper
21.5 cm x 18 cm
*a drawing of a photograph of the inside of a teacup which is marked with overlapping geometric patterns, made by years of habitual stirring with a teaspoon.
