Emily Hawes ©

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  1. I am an artist working with 8mm and 16mm film, to unearth entanglements between people, place and ecologies.

    My practice is shaped by engagements with various sites, collections and places. I undertake research that is situated, relational and material and am interested in learning-with, attuning, wandering, fieldworking, burrowing, weaving, fictioning, embodying & blurring disciplinary boundaries. 

    My films braid speculative and poetic forms of storytelling, and I allow the works to permeate, become frayed, porous and unfold slowly. I am often drawn to stories or subjects which occupy the peripheries or edges, or who have been marginalised. 

    I am guided by new materialist feminist strategies, theories and ideas - in particular Ursula K. Le Guin’s notion of ‘carrier bag storytelling’. I am currently working on a series of short 16mm films that entangle places, collections, relics, ruins and artefacts across the South West. 

    I work as a Lecturer on the BA Fine Art degree at Arts University Bournemouth. My educational work is underpinned by critical and feminist pedagogical theory and practice. I have initiated projects such as ‘The Atossa Press’, which is a correspondence project that connects BA Fine Art students with international artists such as Lenka Clayton (Pittsburgh, US) and DAKOgamay (Philippines).