Emma Pattenden is an artist and designer based in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. Her practice involves a multi-disciplinary approach through drawing, painting and sculpture that is intricate, methodical and often meditative. Her artworks centre around landscape, memory and the embodied experience while honouring the importance of the analogue processes.
Emma’s clarity to express how space has dimensions and time can be attributed to her technical background which lies in architecture. Her work invites a reaction within the viewer to evaluate relationships with and within the landscape, to engender a sense of responsibility to our natural world.
Emma’s work has exhibited across galleries in Sydney, Melbourne and regional Australia, including Red Gallery, Agenda Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, Alternating Current Art Space and The Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing in which she was awarded the Peoples Choice Award.
Emma Pattenden’s practice is a continual expansion of self; an exploration of her understanding of the surrounding natural environments and connections to them, allowing her art to reflect and respond to the landscape and our relationship with it.