New Zealand Painter and Printmaker
Lost Histories III digital textile print on silk 900mm x 300mm
Lost Histories I digital textile print on silk 1000mm x 1000mm
Lost Histories II digital textile print on canvas 1000mm x 1000mm
Detail Lost Histories IV digital Print on Viscose
memoir of a home digital print on silk, 1000mm x 1000mm 2019
This sketchbook was created for the The Sketchbook project, The Things Found Series and is now in the Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn New York, USA
A digitally printed book with negative cut out detailing, Exhibited in june 2016.
Poetics, Artists books -PCANZ printmakers, Whanganui Arts At the Centre, Whanganui
This series of works plays with ideas of cloning hybrids and recorded beasts. These works are unique state screen print on digitally printed grounds on paper. The digital prints are photographed from old novels and books of illustrations the screen printed images randomly printed in layers as one would layer paint.
Fictitious Hybrid I Screen print on digital ground 2017 on paper
Fictitious Hybrid II Screen print on digital ground 2017 on paper
Fictitious Hybrid VI Screen print on digital ground on paper 2017
Fictitious Hybrid VII Screen print on digital ground on paper 2017
From the cloned natives museum series- Kokako CMYK screen print on circular panel
From the cloned natives museum series- Huia tui CMYK screen print on circular panel
From the cloned natives museum series- Kokako CMYK screen print and collage on paper
From the cloned natives museum series- Kokako II CMYK screen print and collage on paper
From the cloned natives museum series- Huia Tui II CMYK screen print and collage on paper
From the cloned natives museum series- Huia Tui II CMYK screen print and collage on paper
From the cloned natives museum series- Swan and pigs trotters CMYK screen print on panel
This series of small collages pay homage to a special NZ bird, the wrybill and the dutch bird illustrator JG Keuleman. His painting, Wrybill & Shore Plover 1888 became a popular print. The Wrybill is a unique shore bird as it has laterally curved bill. These works were part of a group exhibition From the Rivers to the Shore.
Re imaging Keulemans Wrybill III collage and drawing on paper 220mm x 260mm 2017
Re imaging Keulemans Wrybill IV collage and drawing on paper 220mm x 260mm 2017
Re imaging Keulemans Wrybill II collage and drawing on paper 220mm x 260mm 2017
This work plays with an idea of re-created cloned spare parts and the possibility of growing human tissue.
My work for several years has combined a fascination with the hybrid, medical science and genetic engineering. I like to draw parallels with the inherent nature of print; multiplication, the copy with the science and act of cloning. Hand Printed and stitched these cloned hearts are imperfect mutated copies of an original template.
Pushing print into soft textile sculpture allows the work a playfulness not present in a 2D print behind a glass or mount.
Spares for the Broken Hearted Various sizes screen printed and stitched felt 2017
Detail Spares for the Broken Hearted screen printed and stitched felt 2017
Spares for the Broken Hearted II screen printed paper various sizes 2018
This body of work titled ‘Silk Purse from a Sows Ear’ was exhibited at the Lane Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand in July 2009.
All works are screen-printing and painting on wood panels.
The title of this show comes from the saying ‘you cant make a silk purse from a sows ear’, which is something my grandfather used to say, and alludes to the idea of attempting to make something beautiful from something that is not.
In this series of works I combined my fascination with the grotesque, the weird and the hybrid (drawn from an interest in the engraving techniques in printed works of medieval bestiaries) and my love of the pattern, repetition and texture of antique fabrics and wallpapers. I wished to fill the gallery with decorative ideas of animorphism, laid out as if it were as innocuous a thing as a repeating wallpaper motif. The effect of the repetition of such oddities and curiosities is to generate a “second-glance” interest, whereby the sumptuousness of pattern draws the viewer into a closer examination of subject matter.
I like my work to draw allusions on one level to print metaphors (replica, edition, copy) and at a deeper level to the concepts of mutation. Mutation is the introduction of newness, difference and diversity into a genetic pool – a concept that is often viewed in a negative light and which has lead to the pejorative connotations of the term ‘mutant’. It is this idea of difference that is both societally unacceptable yet culturally fascinating.
Counting your Chickens before, Painting and Screen printing, 1000mm x 1000mm
Ex Familia Muris, 2009 Painting and Screen printing 1000mm x 1000mm
Silk Purse from a Sows Ear II, 2009 Painting and Screen printing 1000mm x 1000mm
Ordo Inconditus Pullus II, 2009 Painting and Screen printing 1000mm x 1000mm
Pullus Morbus, 2009 Painting and Screen printing 1000mm x 1000mm
The Clones and other oddities works continued in a playful way from the Chimera series exploring the idea of animal hybrids and mismatched impossible clones. Source imagery was reworked in photoshop from appropriated animal fantasies from medieval bestaries and woodcut blocks using collage before screen printing and painting onto panels.
Bestiary Clone, painting and screen print
Chimera Clone IX, painting and screen print on panel
Chimera Clone V, painting and screen print on panel
Bestiary Clone II, painting and screen print
Mis-matched I collage screen print and paint on paper
Mis-matched II collage screen print and paint on paper
Mis-matched III collage screen print and paint on paper
mis matched bestiary screen print on paper with negative details
all works print painting and collage on paper
This work was created to celebrate the unique and fragile flora and fauna of Aucklands Manukau tidal estuary for the Estuary Art Awards in 2015. This work was exhibited at Uxbridge Gallery, Auckland New Zealand.
The work is made from digitally printed artist canvas and machine stitched, the dimensions are in two hanging variable wreaths each approximately 1.5 long
Emma McLellan 