The Archive.
Riffs, 2025
Weswal Gallery, 2025 Tamworth Country Music Festival
Riffs is a collection of paintings inspired by the headlining artists of the Tamworth Country Music Festival. Drawing on the lyrics and stories of artists like Adam Harvey and Fanny Lumsden, each work distills a moment — a line, a sentiment, or a concept from a song — into a visual response.
Created using acrylic and oil pastel on unprimed linen, the works possess a raw, dry texture reminiscent of the Australian landscape in which both the festival and these stories are set.
Frontiers, 2024
Comber Street Studios, Paddington
A group exhibition that explored the boundaries between physical landscapes and emotional terrain — this series reimagined the aesthetic of traditional Western lithographic posters.
Created using thick oil pastel on unprimed linen, the works carry a raw, sun-drenched texture, like timeworn posters clinging to telegraph poles. Each piece acts as a visual frontier, capturing moments where the external world mirrors internal states of longing, defiance, or quiet reflection. Handwritten headlines punctuate several of the works, offering offbeat insights or unexpected tenderness — small, human gestures against vast imagined horizons.
Frontiers was curated by Claudia Lowe of Artclub and featured in Russh magazine.
52 degrees, 2024
Circa Studio, Paddington
This debut solo exhibition presented a series of abstract desert landscapes that sought to capture the wild west within — the vast, untamed emotional landscapes that exist beneath the surface. Emily used patterns in the foreground - both organic and inorganic to create depth and wildnerness.
The collection sold out, marking a defining moment in Emily’s practice.
