From the second we saw the beautiful
work of Emily Moore, we had to see more and find out about her and her process.
She seemingly effortlessly combines geometric motifs with beautiful landscape
and city scenes, creating breathtaking moments for the viewer.
Emily Moore is a Scottish artist
interested in the patterns and forms found within mountainous environments and
the contrasting, architectural structures which inhabit them. Her paintings attempt
to explore the tension between these two confecting themes, looking to strike a
balance within the final composition. Landscape has always been a primary
source of inspiration for Moore. Her work is created using an amalgamation of
personal images, usually photographs taken to record her travels. Each body of
work is a documentation of those experiences, the creative process allowing
Moore to recall each place and combine them to create new, anonymous
landscapes.
The physical act of creating a
piece, the surface and materials, has always been an important part of Moore's
practice. She works directly onto birch plywood panels, often leaving areas of
the raw wood exposed. Moore experimented a lot with screen-printing during her time
at Edinburgh College of Art and throughout a semester at Massachusetts College
of Art and Design. Since then Moore developed her own process, using masking
tape and a scalpel to create the layered, tonal images similarly achieved
through printing. Moore often uses an overhead projection for the intricate,
detailed images, which are then drawn and cut-out by hand. A laborious process
which allows her to combine the precise, detailed layers over the rough,
painterly ones.
She graduated with a first class
degree from Edinburgh College of Art in 2013. In 2012 she was awarded the Royal
Scottish Academy Keith Prize for the best student work and during her final
year she was selected for the Saatchi New Sensations Longlist. Following graduation
Moore was shortlisted as one of ten finalists for the Griffin Art Prize,
appearing in an exhibition at The Griffin Gallery in London, where she was
awarded the Griffin Art Prize People's Choice Award and a sponsored artist
award. Since graduating Moore has shown her work internationally as well as
regularly exhibiting at the Annual Royal Scottish Academy Open Exhibitions. In
2016 Moore won the Royal Scottish Academy Guthrie Award and in 2018 was shortlisted
as one of twenty-six global finalists for the Rise Art Prize where she was
awarded Rise Art Painter of the Year. Later in 2018 Moore was announced as a finalist
for the Zealous Emerge Art Awards and was also longlisted for the Aesthetica
Art Prize. She lives and works in Edinburgh, Scotland.
See
more of this beautiful work online at www.emilymooreart.com
and on Instagram @emilymooreart
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