GALLERY
Exhibition and residency 195 Mare Street
Artist in residence B Side Festival
Solo exhibition Wilton Way Gallery
Public art project, Bedfordshire
Curation
Archive of Dialect and Heritage
Artist in residence, KYN
Art club
Residency Greensand Country
Taking Things Apart
Tideway, London
[Space] Studios
Mantle Arts, Leicestershire
London Creative Network
Kings College, London
35 discarded items
British Library
The Bloomsbury Festival
Arts Council funded project
80 Canaries
Planet B, METAL
End Of The Road Festival
Wood Street Inside Out
Kaleidoscope
Museum of London Docklands
UP PROJECTS at TOTALLY THAMES
Up Projects
Richmond Literature Festival
Hackney Council, London
Emergency Exit Arts
British Museum
1997 to 2010
ABOUT
Emily Tracy b 1970, is a London-based artist working across collage, assemblage, installation, public art, and socially engaged practice. Emily studied fine art (painting) at Brighton Polytechnic, followed by an MA at Slade School of Art, London.
Solo exhibitions:
Slip Stream, Wilton Way Gallery, Hackney. (2026)
‘Taking Things Apart’ Gallery at The Playroom (2025)
‘Make Yourself At Home’, Kings Culture, Kings College, London (2024)
‘Constant Effort’ B-Side Festival, Dorset (2023)
‘Cut Outs’ That House On Mare Street 195 Mare Street, London (2023)
Curation:
'Assembly' Hackney Arts Week, Clapton Commons, London (2026)
Group exhibitions:
Fragments, Hypha Curates, The Atrium Hypha Gallery South Bank, London (2026)
Moveable Feast , curated by Cathy Wills, Hypha Curates. Euston Tower, London (2025)
100/50 Who’s Counting (2025) Unit 1 Gallery/ Workshop
Curated II: Womxn at Unit 1 Gallery/ Workshop (2022)
‘Cosomoscope’ Torino Meeting House Gallery (2024) ‘Tilt’ Finch Gallery (2022)
‘All Along’ Shuttleworth Gardens Gallery, Greensand Country festival (2021)
Space Gallery, LCN London showcase (2018)
Bow Open Nunnery Gallery (2016)
Tracy & Hobbs Akkigalleria (Finland 2014)
Socially engaged participatory projects (Selection):
Hackney Council, Dialect and Heritage archive, University of Leeds, Up Projects, Metal, Space Studios, Bedfordshire Central Council, The British Museum, The British Library, and The Museum of London. Tracy received Arts Council funding for award winning project Tracy & Hobbs ‘Waterfolk’ with UP Projects, ‘Lets Stick Together’ in 2020.
Residencies: KYN, Bickley, Whitton Library, Portland Bird Observatory, Greensands County.
Artist Statement
Working primarily with found and obsolete materials, Emily explores how images, archives, and systems of knowledge shape our understanding of the world.
Her recent practice begins with vintage National Geographic magazines from the 1970s. Through processes of cutting away, redaction, extraction, and reassembly, she dismantles the authority of these publications, exposing their hidden structures—margins, staple holes, registration marks, and fragmented captions. Rather than building images, Tracy reveals what lies beneath, transforming collage into a process of excavation.
Alongside printed matter, she incorporates discarded objects and analogue data containers, including record sleeves, CD covers, and slide boxes, reflecting on the politics of collecting, classifying, and preserving knowledge. Her work reconnects with the histories of collage and découpage while examining their relevance to contemporary questions of ecology, memory, and power.
Drawing on landscapes such as wetlands, tundra, and ancient sites marked by human intervention, Tracy's work considers the fragile relationship between human activity and the natural world. Through tactile, layered compositions, she creates poetic spaces where environmental histories, archival fragments, and material traces converge, inviting new ways of seeing and understanding the interconnectedness of people, place, and time.
ARTWORKS
Index 74
Some Other Time
Assemblage sculpture
72 x 37 x 30cm
2025
Found postcard rack, 45” single sleeve
£650
Contact to request portfolio PDF.
Bound For Sea
2026
50 x 50 cm
Mixed media collage
Paper, ply, resin, National Geographic Magazine
£1000
Detail
Slip Stream II
2026
67 x 18 x 27 cm
Mixed media collage
Found dressing mirror, paper, ply, resin, Ink jet prints.
£1500
Leftovers
2026
150 x 100 cm
Collage
Large format prints
£1200
Compact II
2026
5 x 5 x 1cm
Mixed media collage
Vintage powder compact, National Geographic Magazine, collage, resin
£250
Compact I
2026
5 x 5 x 1cm
Mixed media collage
Vintage powder compact, National Geographic Magazine, collage, resin
£250
Suddenly I Had
2026
Collage
100 x 100cm
Found MDF, magazine, paper, resin.
£1625
Slip Steam I
2026
30 x 30 x 25cm
Mixed media: Street found Jelly mould, board, collage.
£500
Pensive
2026
Mixed media, ply, resin, collage
38 x 38 cm
£800
Includes images
Dorze woman, Bodo, Ethiopia.
Amjadieh Stadium Tehran.
Yakutsk permafrost, Siberia.
Tennessee people.
Night Passage
2026
38 x 38 cm
Mixed media collage
Paper, ply, resin, National Geographic Magazine
£800
the river’s
Mixed media collage
40 x 40 cm
Ply, magazine, resin, paper
2025
£1000
Incorporates images of
Scorpion fish, Pacific Ocean.
Japanese fisherman.
Galilee, Israel.
Newfoundland rock.
Kansas cattle.
President Lyndon Johnson in crowd,
Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
Nearby
Mixed media collage
40 x 40 cm
Ply, magazine, resin, paper
2025
£1000
Incorporates images of
Salmon migration, Alaska.
Salt.
Galilee, Israel.
Incas empire.
Naha, Japan.
Suddenly I Had II
2026
50 x 50cm
Mixed media collage
Paper, ply, resin, National Geographic Magazine
£1000
the line,
Mixed media colllage
40 x 40 cm
Ply, magazine, resin, paper
2025
£1000
Incorporates images of
Nazca Lines, Peru.
President Lyndon Johnson in crowd,
Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
Unknown fresco.
Substance
2026
Mixed media: ply, resin, collage.
50 x 50cm
£1000
Matter
2026
Mixed media: ply, paper, National Geographic Magazine, resin
50 x 50cm
£1000
To get here
2026
50 x 50 cm
Mixed media collage
Paper, ply, resin, National Geographic Magazine
£1000
Isle II
Collage on paper
27 x 37 cm
2023
£600 Framed
Isle I
Collage on paper
27 x 37 cm
2023
£600 Framed
Polychrome
Mixed media collage
30 x 30 cm
Found ply, magazine, resin, paper
2025
£1000
This artwork includes images of the Copenhagen garden city.
(Right)
Mixed media collage
30 x 30 cm
Ply, magazine, resin, paper
2025
£1000
Test Card I
Mixed media
Test Card I
2025
50 x 45cm
Plywood, placemat, collage, resin, wax.
£650
Test Card II
Mixed media collage
2025
50 x 45cm
Plywood, salvaged placemat, collage, resin, wax.
£650
Index 74
Mixed media collage
Card, Magazine, Rolodex index cards.
42 x 32cm
2025
Framed £600
High Pass
Collage on Paper
37 x 27cm
2025
£200 Unframed
Margin I
Mixed media collage
Margin I
MDF, collage, resin.
40 x 30 cm
2024
£500
Viewpoint
2025.
Collage.
38 x 27 cm
Vinyl singe sleeve, magazize, paper
£200
Please contact for more information on artworks and to purchase.
Shipping not included.
NEWS
Edition 001: Fragments
Hypha Curates at The Atrium, at Hypha Gallery South Bank
Selected for first ever edition of The Atrium.
The Atrium at Hypha Gallery South Bank, 42 Southwark Bridge Road, London SE1 9EU
26 June – 26 July 2026, Thursday – Sunday 12-6 PM
PV Thursday 25 June, 6-9 PM
Artworks – as fragments of an incredibly dense, complex, and rich cultural ecosystem – do not sit idle. They refuse unanimity. The artists’ subjectivities leave traces; their marks and thoughts like roots, branching into communities, propositions, pleasantries, and hardships.
Each fragment, every glimpse and every trace of these artists’ lives informs the larger image of the exhibition theory. A theory based on mutually assured support. We too, like fragments of a larger puzzle, like the hyphae as part of a larger living network, work in partnership with our artists and the conditions of our locality. And in our microcosm, we found a support system of immeasurable value.
Photo Carlo Zambon
Assembly
As a magpie, a collector, a finder of things, I am very pleased to announce that I am curating an exhibition of collaged objects during Hackney Arts Week.
Collaging found, discarded or collected objects
Clapton Commons
1 Clapton Terrace,
London E5 9BW
Emily Tracy
Sophie Turner
Amanda Benson
Participating artist Clare Qualman
Opening Thursday 4th June 6-8pm
Exhibition open 5th – 6th June
Solo exhibition
Slip Stream
16 April – 12 May
Wilton Way Gallery, 61 Wilton Way, London E8
Open Thurs- Sunday 10am – 6pm and by appointment
Private view Thursday 16th April 6-9pm
Please save the date for my forthcoming exhibition of latest artworks and site specific works which respond to this former shoe shop on Wilton Way.
TAP-IN new season!
TAP IN is a series of evening workshops for adults, hosted by Make Club in the wonderful new community workshop space at Dalston Curve Garden. Each project is led by a local Hackney artist, designer or maker. They will be sharing their processes and skills in a welcoming, accessible atmosphere. Get tips, tricks and insights into developing your creative process from amazing local people.
Our first programmes starts with COLLAGE with Emily Tracy, followed by PAPER FOLDING with Cristina Ottonello, WOVEN COLOUR with Ella Doran, and INKY ANIMATION with Elizabeth Hobbs.
To launch the project, we are offering a limited number of EARLY BIRD TICKETS for the first two sessions!
Where: Dalston Curve Garden, Dalston Lane, Hackney E8 3DF.
When: Tuesday evenings 7-9pm 24th February until 31st March.
Cost: Tickets from £25.
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Artist in Residence
Kyn Care home Bickley
London borough of Bromley
It is a pleasure to be working with residents at Kyn between October and December 2025.
I am exploring ways of bringing creativity to residents through a range of hands on processes which spark conversation or physical responses.
I am collecting moments of clarity, sparks of joy, that ‘joining-the-dots’ feeling, a beginning of an idea, a memory, times when something clicks into place, the clouds clear, and something is remembered, understood, seen in a different light or perspective. However small or fleeting, this feeling gives a sense of ‘this is who I am’, ‘this is where I am going’, ‘this is the core of me’. Within this setting where many are dealing with loss of independence, dementia and physical disability this theme is emerging through. Work in progress!
Hypha Curates
14th – 19th October 2025
Euston Tower
London NW1
I am very pleased to be selected from 900 applications for the new online platform called Hypha Curates.
Adding to the mix of cultural events across London coinciding with Frieze art fair, Hypha Studios are pleased to announce their exhibition A Moveable Feast. A curated exhibition of over 40 artists selected by renowned curator and art collector, Cathy Wills, all works will be available to purchase directly through Hypha Curates, a new sales platform designed to support the charitable work of Hypha Studios.
The title of the exhibition references Ernest Hemingway’s memoir of the same name. Presented in a dense and exciting salon style hang, the diverse mix of works – selected from over 900 applications to Hypha Curates – invite the visitor to draw new, unexpected, and rich connections across the mixed media curation. Just as Hemingway weaved together encounters with a diverse coterie of friends and figures of the time, Wills’ curation is intended to initiate new conversation rather than draw conclusions.
A Moveable Feast marks the launch of Hypha Curates, a new purpose-driven online art sales platform designed to open the doors of collecting to wider audiences, directly supporting UK artists. Launched by arts charity Hypha Studios, the platform gives 70% of sales income directly to artists, with the remaining 30% funding Hypha Studios’ charitable work, which has already provided free studio and exhibition spaces for over 2,100 artists in 64 UK locations since 2021.
Gathering: Artist In Resdence Project
October 2025
I am very excited to announce that I am Artist in Residence at care home KYN, Bickley.
Over the next two months I will be working with residents to create living archives, exploring memory, reflecting on important times, people, objects and events past and present that shape lives, and the common themes that link them. Love, friendship and the ups and downs of life.
A Moveable Feast, Hypha Curates
Hypha HQ, Unit 3, Euston Tower, 286 Euston Road, NW1 3DP
PV: 14th October, 6 – 9pm
Curators Tour: 18th October, 11am
Open: 15th October – 19th October 202511am – 7pm
I am excited to be selected to show recent work in ‘A Moveable Feast’, presented by Hypha and curated by Cathy Wills.
Adding to the mix of cultural events across London coinciding with Frieze art fair, Hypha Studios are pleased to announce their exhibition A Moveable Feast. A curated exhibition of over 40 artists selected by renowned curator and art collector, Cathy Wills, all works will be available to purchase directly through Hypha Curates, a new sales platform designed to support the charitable work of Hypha Studios.
The title of the exhibition references Ernest Hemingway’s memoir of the same name. Presented in a dense and exciting salon style hang, the diverse mix of works – selected from over 900 applications to Hypha Curates – invite the visitor to draw new, unexpected, and rich connections across the mixed media curation. Just as Hemingway weaved together encounters with a diverse coterie of friends and figures of the time, Wills’ curation is intended to initiate new conversation rather than draw conclusions.
TAP-IN
Make Club presents a series of creative classes for adults led by Hackney artists, designers and makers.
Wednesday evenings 7-9pm
Pophams Home studio space
197 Richmond Road
E8 3NJ
Autumn programme to be announced soon.
100/50 (Who’s Counting?) at Unit 1 Gallery
Excited to be selected for this group show at Unit 1 Gallery.
I will be showing Test Card I & II made with resin and wax.
Please come along to the PV or over the next month.
Private View: June 19, 2025 6-9pm
Dates: June 20 – July 20
Opening Hours: Wednesday – Saturday, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location:
Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop,
1 Bard Road
London W10 6TP
Featuring an inspiring selection of works from artists that are often overlooked and are often emerging talent, often those of who have not only honed their skills but have also navigated the challenging landscape of the art world with unwavering determination. This exhibition seeks to honour those who have consistently pushed forward, demonstrating that true artistic success is a marathon, not a sprint.
New commission
April 2025
I am excited to be working on a new commission for St Mark’s on Hamilton Terrace, St. Johns Wood, London. I will be working with the local community to create a series of artworks for the hoarding which surrounds the church after a fire.
SOLO EXHIBITON
SAVE THE DATE
Solo exhibition Emily Tracy.
TAKING THINGS APART
Private View: 29th April 6.30- 8.30pm.
The Gallery at the Playroom,
93 Junction Road, London N19 5QX
Exhibition dates: 28th April – 4th May.
OPENING TIMES: 11AM -6PM.
Nearest tube: Archway Station
Found image on discarded wood.
Open Studio this weekend!
7th & 8th December
11am-5pm Saturday and Sunday
11 Mentmore Terrace
London E8 3PN
Opposite London Fields station
I’ll be opening my live/ work home, with latest collage artworks for sale, plus a one-off series of zines.
And, back by popular demand; the kitchen table Collage: make your very own artwork.
Enjoy some festive cheer, mince pies and mulled wine!
Releasing new series of collages:
After a tumultuous year, I have been creating a new series of collages made from dress patterns. These reflect on a familiar visual language from childhood, the beginning of my making journey, and unfinished projects. They play with line, colour and textures of the paper they are printed on.
Installation Kings College, The Strand.
‘Make Yourself At Home’ installation will be on view at The Arcade, Bush House campus, Kings College London.
17th- 25th September 2024.
This is an evolving participatory project, for Fresher students who are joining Kings College this September.
Come down, take part in drawing an entire student home.
What makes YOU feel at home?
E8 Art Trail
December 7-8th 2024
Hackney, London
11 Mentmore Terrace
London E8 3PN
40 artists across 30 studios and homes.
I will be taking part in this growing art trail around Hackney E8.
I will be showing my latest work and have work for sale.
Please join me at my live/ work home and take part in making your own collage.
Find me opposite London Fields station.
Cosmoscope: Group exhibition
I am exhibiting some recent work in group exhibition “Cosmoscope’ at Toriano Meeting Rooms.
Cosmoscope is a combination of words: ‘Cosmos’, from kosmos, the Greek word for ‘world’, is confronted by ‘scope’, the call to investigate. Artists in this exhibition used various media to explore their own corner of the universe, whether that be a real, desired, dystopian, ephemeral, domestic or endangered world. Through their diverse perspectives and disciplines, they confront the pressing issues of our time: how should we think about, feel, or picture the boundary between self and world?
The works displayed navigate the intricate balance between the tangible and the abstract, the personal and the universal. Evoking themes and concepts such as climate change, belonging, the everyday, and the home, a journey through the Cosmoscope invites you to challenge your own perceived place in space and time.
The Cosmoscope exhibition launch is on the 2nd of March at 7PM. Afterwards, the exhibition will be open from 11AM to 5PM every weekend throughout March 2024.’
EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT: 10% off Make Club Evenings!
Take part in three sessions to play with techniques including collage and folded paper to create artworks from an old book! This is a no-skills required relaxing group of sessions, with the satisfaction of taking home an artwork you love.
11th, 18th, 25th January and 7th February 2024
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3 sessions £105.
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Book Now!
Do you like to make?
Maybe you haven’t made for a while, or maybe you’re looking for different ways of creating? Arts creative or a beginner, everyone welcome.
Come to Make Club to explore creative approaches to drawing, printing, making collage, and more. Make Club is mostly about exploring processes and thinking around ideas rather than technique and skill, but expect to come out with some artworks you’re really proud of.
BOOKING NOW
What is an artist book? Explore artist books with two series of inspiring sessions using drawing, print and collage. Led by visual artist, Emily Tracy. Emily has explored the artist-book form over several public commissions including for (SPACE) and Museum of Docklands.
PART ONE: Dates 2nd/ 9th/ 16th/24th November 7-9pm
PART TWO: Dates 30th Nov/7th/14th December 7-9pm
Click on Make Club project page for booking details.
Constant Effort- exhibition dates
B- Side Festival 2023.
Festival dates: 7th -10th September
Please join me to view work created during residency at Portland Bird Observatory..
Constant Effort installation will be on view at
Portland Bird Observatory
Old Lower Lighthouse
Portland Bill Road
DT5 2JT
195 Private View
Please join me to view work made in response to the architecture and history of 195 Mare Street .
Built in 1697, this house has had many occupants. I have had the pleasure of using the amazing panelled front room as a studio since January. Find more about the house here.
Saturday 3rd June 5-8 pm
195 Mare Street
E8 3QE
Exhibition dates
Sunday 4th June
Thursday 8th June
Friday 9th June
Saturday 10th June: E8 Art Trail
Sunday 11th June: E8 Art Trail
Opening times: 11-4pm
Save the date!
Private View
SATURDAY 3RD JUNE 5-8PM
195 Mare Street
Hackney
E8 3QE
Nearest underground station:
London Fields Overground.
I am excited to be showing some work I have been making in response to 195 Mare Street. This beautiful building has been a house, a home, a refuge, a social club and a squat since it was built in 1697. As one of the oldest buildings in Hackney it has had many residents and visitors. The interior is beautiful, and has somehow managed to retain tangible links to its history. In January I set up a temporary studio in the heavenly wood panelled front room, and I have been exploring the history and architectural detail of the building to create an installation.
Spread the word!
I am thrilled to have been commissioned by The Dialect and Heritage Project to celebrate and help share their amazing archive. I will be be delving through the Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture archive to create a series of collages and audiograms inspired by the archive itself, how it was made, and the amazing dialects and special words it holds. I love that the archive is expanding and growing as, what we say, and how we say it, evolves and borrows from people around us.
Make Club HQ
Very excited to share Make Club news.
Make Club started four years ago from my studio. The class quickly outgrew the space and has then moved from my Live/work space, going online during the pandemic, to Finch Projects Cafe and then to Space Studios. I am pleased to announce we will now be based at the incredible 195 Mare Street, a historic grade II listed building with amazing history and importance within the borough.
Make Club will be extending its reach to adults to offer a series of classes which explores and responds to the buildings fabric, history and former residents to explore site specific practice.
Make Club for young artists will also be based there, allowing us much more space and the kind of environment all artists dream of. We will be able to make more mess and extend our arms, legs and artworks beyond the confines of a table. Something we all need to do!
To book go to the Make Club pages in the Gallery.
TILT
Private View
Amanda Benson and Emily Tracy
18th November
6-11pm
Finch Gallery
12 Sidworth Street
London E8 3SG
Opening ‘Ilford Directory’
Please join us for the opening of ‘Ilford Directory’
11th October 6-8pm
Emily Tracy talks about her commission ‘Ilford Directory’ for SPACE , a co-created billboard celebrating Ilford people and places.
On view until April 2023, with book art pieces on display in the gallery. Oakfield Road, Ilford, IG1 1ZJ.
Launch invite
Please come along to celebrate the installation of the billboard artwork on 11th October 3.30pm – 7.30pm.
Outside the gallery at:
SPACE Ilford
10 Oakfield Road
IG1 1ZJ
Gallery open Wed 11am – 5pm, Sat 11am – 3pm
October 2022 – April 2023
Imagine the wealth of knowledge, resources and experience that are contained within Ilford. What would an Ilford directory of life tips look like? What would it contain?
No matter what age we are, if we have been through a life stage, threshold or experience we have little pieces of wisdom to pass on. Small things that we learn every day.
The Ilford Directory has been imagined and co-created by Emily Tracy with Ilford residents. Teachers from schools around the borough came together to pool their top tips for life and to create collages. Then photos of Redbridge people and places, both past and present, were contributed through open calls to create a three dimensional collage.
Fair Art Fair curated II: Womxn
I am thrilled to announce that my work will be shown at forthcoming exhibition ‘Fair Art Fair curated II: Womxn’.
An exhibition of works by 20 womxn artists, selected from the revolutionary Fair Art Fair app by leading industry curators Jo Baring and Beth Greenacre
Selected Artists
Olivia Strange | Lucy Gregory | Caroline McCambridge | Tess Williams | Emily Gorum | Tamsin Morse | Liz Elton | Anna Lieber Lewis | Madinah Thompson | Ingrid Berthon-Moine | Lisa-Marie Harris | Nilufar Nuthall | Rosario Trillo | Amy Mizrahi | Emily Tracy | Srabani Ghosh | Sophie Goodchild | Elena Saraceni | Victoria Snazell | Jo Chate
Unit 1 Gallery www.unit1gallery-workshop.com
Private view: 5th May 2022 6-9pm
Exhibition dates: 6th May – 11th June 2022
Who Cares?
During the autumn Emily worked with young people from around Ilford to explore the question ‘What do you care about?’ using collage.
Who Cares? is a Creative Europe funded collaborative projec made up of five organisations dedicated to artistic production from different latitudes in Europe: Idensitat (Barcelona, Spain), SPACE (London, United Kingdom), Rupert (Vilnius, Lithuania), Grey Area (Korčula, Croatia) and Centro Huarte (Navarre, Spain).
Let’s Stick Together: archived for the future.
Let’s Stick Together was an Arts Council funded project which invited older people and their families to collage sound and image to reflect their lives during the pandemic. We are pleased to announce that the project will be archived for the future at both Hackney and Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives.
‘Out at Sea’ festival at Royal Greenwich maritime Museum
Join Make Club at ‘Out at Sea’ festival which celebrates LGBTQ+ history on Saturday 19th February 2022. We will be using collage to create new lands, islands and atolls using our collection of maps. This project is a part of Bijou Stories. a project by Avant-Gardening that aims to paint a new picture of the LGBTQ+ community based on their lived experiences, memories and histories.
Coming through a letterbox near you!
‘Let’s Stick Together’ took place throughout winter and spring 2021. It explored the process of collage, using found image and sound, and how it might reflect our lives through uncertainty. It brought together visual and participatory artist Emily Tracy, radio producer Sarah Cuddon and writer Line Langebek from ‘Library of Change’, together with participants at Bromley By Bow Centre, and from around the country. Online and via the postal service, we created over 40 collages, 2 podcasts, and 1 poem, all on our kitchen tables, which reflect on our experiences over the last year or two.
We now have 1000 postcards, which will be winging their way around the UK and beyond, to share our project direct to your doorstep. We hope they will be used to reconnect
and say hello to friends and family after 18 months of lockdowns and restrictions on our lives. Get in touch to recieve your FREE postcards!
And take a listen to the podcasts on SoundCloud here.
May 2021
Exhibition ‘All Along’ opens at Shuttleworth Swiss gardens 17th May- 31st May 2021.
This exhibition is the culmination of a residency, collaborating with local volunteers, ecologists, historians and curators in Greensand Country. This project is commissioned and supported by Greensand Country and produced for Greensand festival.
Want to join ‘Let’s stick together’?
We’re all staying safe at home, and looking forward to the time when we can see family and friends, and get back to enjoying the activities we usually do to keep us happy.
Perhaps you have a friend or family member that you haven’t seen since Covid? Perhaps you are missing out on arts groups you usually go to?
This is an opportunity to do an activity safely together online or in your own time.
Join us to create some collages which reflect your time during lock-down, and where we are just now. Connect with other people across the country, and share your work through a fun and friendly group.
We are offering two sessions which will introduce you to making collage, and give you some ideas to get started. Email emily@emilytracy.co.uk for more details.
January 2021
Awarded Arts Council project grant
I am very pleased to announce the launch of ‘Lets stick together’, a project which will explore the process of collage, using found image and sound, and how it might reflect our lives currently. It will bring together visual and participatory artist Emily Tracy, writer Line Langebek, radio producer Sarah Cuddon from ‘Library of Change’, The Bromley By Bow Centre and The Rotherhithe Picture Library, to experiment and investigate the creation of a Covid-safe project for older people. The outcome will take the form of a ‘Mail Art’ project, sending out 500 postcards, inviting each recipient to ‘Please forward’. Each card will share jointly created images and link to three sound pieces in podcast format, reflecting on stories, sound and interviews.
November 2020
Commissioned artist books ‘Mondays’ and ‘Me automatic’, which responded to oral history archive at Mantle Arts, was completed for forthcoming display at venues around Coalville, Leicestershire. ‘N W Leicestershire voices’ is a Lottery Heritage project making their archive of interviews more accessible through artist exhibits. The two artworks are accompanied with edited interviews selected by the artist, and shared with a QR code.
October 2020
Join Make Club for Half term!
26th October at The Finch Cafe 12 Sidworth Street 4-5.30pm
27th October at The Finch Cafe 12 Sidworth Street 4-5.30pm
28th October 10-11.30 am on Zoom for a live class with materials sent out to you wherever you are!
To book email emily@emilytracy.co.uk
All classes £15 per child including materials.
August 2020
Make Club is back!
New look after school art classes for children and young people at The Finch Cafe, Sidworth Street, Hackney.
Classes for 6-11 yr olds and 11-16yr olds.
Mondays and Tuesdays 4.15- 5.45pm (6-11yrs)
Monday 6.30-8pm (11-16yrs)
Book block of classes 7 sessions £105
June 2020
Celebrating 50 projects created through workshop sessions online with children, young people and families since Covid-19 lockdown. Follow our projects on Instagram or join a session on Zoom. Book here!
We’ve made lockdown survival Zines, Armchair traveller boxes, lots of sculpture using cardboard, miniature books for The British Library, and animated germs.
“We love Make Club!”
“This has honestly been one of the most wonderful things we’ve discovered during Lockdown.”
“Thanks for providing the classes, they’ve been really fun and also a welcome break in the home learning schedule for me!”
“We absolutely love your classes -it’s such a therapeutic outlet for kids at such a strange time!”
May 2020
I am pleased to announce I have been commissioned to create a sculptural book for Mantle Arts.
Mantle Arts is based in North West Leicestershire and delivers arts projects across the region. In the mid 1980s they collected memories of local people that stretched back to before the first world war, building a bank of oral history recordings. ‘N. W. Leicestershire Voices’ is an 18 month project, supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, that will return to these recordings, preserve them via digitisation, and use them in a range of projects to make this archive of local history more accessible including the creation of exhibits.
April 2020
During the Corona virus crisis Make Club has moved online and has opened classes to children and young people all over the UK and beyond. Five Zoom classes a week are now offered and can be booked on EventBrite.
February 2020
Book now for Collage Club for adults. 4th and 11th March. 7-pm. Martello St, London Fields, London E8 3PE.
Explore and experiment with old school cut and paste to create a framed artwork.
Contact for full details.
January 2020
I will be working with The Museum of London as a part of their project ‘Memories of London’. Working with older Londoners at dementia cafes, we will be using archive from the museums collections, and conversation about food, to create some artist books capturing food memories. Yum!
September 2019
I am excited to announce I will be completing a residency for Greensand Country, Bedfordshire, exploring this unique landscape and heritage, and drawing upon archive and research collected by Greensand Country volunteers and local communities.
August 2019
The Institute of Animal Spirit Guides, X-Ray Department will be appearing at The End of The Road Festival, Larmar Tree Garedens, Wiltshire. 28thAugust-1st September. Join us to find your spirit guide with our scientific quiz, make fantastic cardboard creature body parts and go behind the X-Ray machine to reveal your spirit guide!
July 2019
Open studio : July 25th 10-6pm
Martello Street
Hackney
London
E8 3PE
June 2019
Make Club residency at Bangabandhu Primary continues. This term young people have explored their local environment through collage and looking at artists who have used collage and perspective in their work. They have also contributed to a collaborative artwork exploring the architecture of V & A Museum of Childhood which is on display at the museum until the autumn.
October 2018
The launch of ‘Through Kaleidoscope Eyes’ took place with local residents and children and families from The West Hill in the Park Children’s Centre. The participants took part in finding elements of the collage and will be able to enjoy the artwork until 2020.
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