+ Emily Tracy - London based public artist & participatory projects

ABOUT

Emily Tracy b 1970, is a London-based artist working across collage, installation, artist books, 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: April 2026 Wilton Way Gallery, Hackney. curated by Anna McHugh.

‘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).

Group exhibitions: Moveable Feast (2025), curated by Cathy Wills, Hypha Curates. Euston Tower, London.100/50 Who’s Counting (2025) and 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), and Akkigalleria (Finland 2014).

Socially engaged participatory projects for 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. (Selection). She has 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.

Emily Tracy makes site-specific socially engaged projects in public spaces, which encourage the exploration of place. Projects start with research, and seek participation using the asking of questions, or collecting of story, histories, data or objects. Running through the projects are re-occurring themes around environment, natural history, and human impulse to collect and sort. Working collaboratively, partners have included b-Side Festival, Space, Metal (Peterborough) and University of Leeds English Department, and creative collaborators have included a sound producer, animator, Entomologist, writer and many naturalists.

Each new project demands an immersive process of engaging in the fine detail to find the defining character, or nub of the question, and produce outcomes which are thought provoking and yet accessible to all.

My practice is multidisciplinary. Projects outcomes include installation, public art, event, physical and digital exhibition, and use collage, assemblage, sound and artist books.

Emily has invited audiences to collect and sort clutter, help reunite lost property, create collage to reflect lives of older people during Covid, and ask the question ‘What do we hold dear?’ Recent projects combine sound and image to explore an archive of dialect house at The University of Leeds, and an artist residency at Portland Bird Observatory in Dorset.

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Phone: 07985 567309

emily@emilytracy.co.uk

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