Emily Hannon
Degree:
BA (Hons) Fine Art/ Art Therapy/ The Therapeutic and Educational Application of the Arts,
University:
Kent Institute of Art and Design at Canterbury/ University of Hertfordshire/ The Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education
Graduation Year:
1991/ 1999/ 2012
Drawing on material from everyday life as points of departure, Emily's art-making has been and continues to be a process of undoing, of being undone, of marking out, making meaning and bringing about something new.
It involves showing up each day to seek out, experiment with and practice the necessary ways and means to work a surface and create inroads into experiences and encounters that both engage and disturb. Predominant subjects include early recollections, family and motherhood.
''In essence, I think perhaps it’s about, as Rollo May has written, “the urgent need in everyone to give form to his or her life...”
