Expanding from a practice of drawing and printmaking, Emma Bingham utilises the inherent physical and metaphorical properties of materials to create abstract objects, images and installation artworks.

Emma’s studio-based research draws on theoretical and philosophical ideas of the body as a site of inheritance, encounter, and transformation, and on the combined aspects of her life: as mother, partner and neonatal nurse. She considers how abstract form can highlight the evocative and affective capacity of process, and how the material properties of paper, cloth and wax can evoke the body, a sense of holding and the traces of touch: the connections and residues which are formed through our encounters with others.