[MA SCULPTURE 26’] Artist Spotlight
Emma Deegan is an American artist based in London working between sculpture and painting. Her work transmutes industrial tools and canonically feminine products into abstract assemblages to interrogate the uncanniness of violence and objectification. Working with the premise that femineity is not a binary or exclusive quality, her work is interested in experiments of weight and support to offer soft materials and fluid forms that are structurally capable. Her practice is concerned with how processes of making can be a ritual in sentimentality in a time when our connection to objects, the environment, and each other is distanced. She is currently curious about how machines can be brought into the ritual. Along with a process-oriented practice that inverts assumed material qualities, like the rigidity of metal and softness of textile, she experiments with color and form to explore the grotesque, sensual, and inconclusive nature of melancholia. With a background in sociocultural anthropology, Emma is inspired by alternative ontologies and is invested in creating visceral sculptures that possess their own autonomy.
Wasp nest. 91x40x86cm. Made from a vintage Ralph Lauren dress pattern I found in a charity shop for 1£, also nylon stockings, methyl cellulose, steel, rope, dirt, flour and oil.
![[MA SCULPTURE 26’] Artist SpotlightEmma Deegan is an American artist based in London working between sculpture and painting. Her work transmutes industrial tools and canonically feminine products into abstract assemblages to interrogate the uncanniness of violence and objectification. Working with the premise that femineity is not a binary or exclusive quality, her work is interested in experiments of weight and support to offer soft materials and fluid forms that are structurally capable. Her practice is concerned with how processes of making can be a ritual in sentimentality in a time when our connection to objects, the environment, and each other is distanced. She is currently curious about how machines can be brought into the ritual. Along with a process-oriented practice that inverts assumed material qualities, like the rigidity of metal and softness of textile, she experiments with color and form to explore the grotesque, sensual, and inconclusive nature of melancholia. With a background in sociocultural anthropology, Emma is inspired by alternative ontologies and is invested in creating visceral sculptures that possess their own autonomy.](https://sp1.picnob.com/p/pt_6742184141256573683614_0_42b50dfc8bbbadfc0f944314a285e300.jpg?o=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&h=3df548ba5eb37a85ceac83d26ed9f2ab)
