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Emily Platzer

MA work

MA work

  • Our river met the sea and we are infinitely blue

    Our river met the sea and we are infinitely blue, 2019
    Pigment and rabbit skin glue on canvas
    147 x 142 cm

  • And I will hang my head low

    And I will hang my head low, 2019
    Pigment and rabbit skin glue on canvas
    147 x 142 cm

  • Saturn returns

    Saturn returns, 2019
    Pigment and rabbit skin glue on canvas
    380 x 180 cm

  • Shadow self

    Shadow self, 2019
    Pigment and rabbit skin glue on canvas
    160 x 150 cm

  • I keep the whole of you in the edges of my eyes

    I keep the whole of you in the edges of my eyes, 2019
    Pigment and rabbit skin glue on canvas
    160 x 130 cm

  • Reaching and overextending

    Reaching and overextending, 2019
    Pigment and rabbit skin glue on canvas
    200 x 160 cm

  • Drum painting I

    Drum painting I, 2019
    Pigment and rabbit skin glue on canvas
    160 x 150 cm

  • Drum painting II

    Drum painting II, 2019
    Pigment and rabbit skin glue on canvas
    160 x 150 cm

  • Drum painting III

    Drum painting III, 2019
    Pigment and rabbit skin gkue on canvas
    160 x 150 cm

  • Our summer made her light escape

    Our summer made her light escape, 2018
    Pigment and rabbit skin glue on canvas
    160 x 150 cm

  • You belong to yourself

    You belong to yourself, 2018
    Pigment and rabbit skin glue on canvas
    170 x 170 cm

  • Lover do not waste our bodies. Do not waste our time

    Lover do not waste our bodies. Do not waste our time, 2018
    Pigment and rabbit skin glue on canvas, plaster and papiermache on canvas.
    200 x 180 cm, 38 x 34 x 10 cm

Painting Is a Journey

Each work is made in one visit and is an immersive, sensory engagement held within the materiality of paint. I explore a connection between the practice of shamanic journeying and painting. These shapes and colours are experience and they are led by the rhythm of a drum.
Programme
Painting

Info

Info

  • ep

  • MA Degree

    School

    School of Arts & Humanities

    Programme

    MA Painting, 2019

  • My paintings are made by combining pigment and rabbit skin glue, a technique developed from the tradition of distemper. There is a dual relationship between shamanic practice and the paintings, each practice begins by stating an intention or asking a question, followed by a journey that is both a sensory and imaginative immersion. I am led by the rhythm of a tool; either the drum or the brush. The resulting paintings are experiential journeys, a temporal space is created between entering and exiting the canvas and this is where the painting is made, in one visit.

  • Degrees

  • BA Fine Art, Falmouth School of Art, Falmouth University, 2011

  • Experience

  • The Fine Art Collective, ColArt Studio Residency, 2019

  • Exhibitions

  • 'The Summer Will Have Its Flies', Subsidiary Projects, London, 2019; 'Artworks Open', Barbican Trust, London, 2018; 'From this time', Unchained, Ione and Mann, London, 2018; 'Something Else', Triumph Gallery, Moscow, 2018

  • Publications

  • 100 Painters of Tomorrow, Thames and Hudson, 2015

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