EMILY MANNION

Emily creates narrative vignettes culled from personal history, literature, music and film. At times these scenes seem banal, in others, absurd. They are purely imagined spaces that are vague and elusive, offering fragmentary impressions of wonder, beauty, loneliness and dread.

She is particularly interested in how the domestic speaks of an intimacy, and also an interiority of the mind, where all inhabited spaces give rise to the notion of home.  Where a room can serve as a functional enclosing, a social construct or can be a metaphor for the psyche.

These interiors are usually populated with objects, both uncanny and transcendent - a glove, an insect under a glass, a spoon, a curtain shimmers, things are only half revealed.  Animals and figures sometimes appear yet they can be more present in their absence. 

Emily Mannion is an Irish artist currently based in London.  She is a recent graduate of the Slade School of Art MFA in (2022) where she was awarded the Felix Slade Scholarship, and shortlisted for the Sarabande Foundation scholarship. She was also awarded the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant (2021), and shortlisted for the Chadwell Award (2022), and has works in collections in the Tank Shanghai and the National Collection (Ireland).