Camilla Emson (b. 1985) is an interdisciplinary artist whose psychobiological work positions the female body as a precarious vessel to explore themes of motherhood, objectification and transformation. Working primarily with pliable fibre, liquid media, and molten glass, her sensorially engaging practice tests the limits of containment in physical and psychological ways, whilst also exploring how our bodies are porous containers for our pasts, emotions and traumas. Across her disciplines, she is concerned with notions of reciprocity held within our sense of interiority and exteriority, or depth and surface. She uses her breath in glassblowing and spills ink and bleach onto recycled fabric to create biomorphic forms, twisting molten glass or looping clusters of thread to create skin-like membranes. In her semi-abstract textile works the leakages, fallen threads, and knots are cast in luminous oil paint that fix the fluid mess within an amorphous system, through shapes which resemble ancient alchemical apparatus. Her processes of making enact a shapeshifting in order to unlock and reimagine or rediscover the female body. Her work is autobiographical and also carries traces of her somatic therapeutic work and research, which runs alongside her studio practice.

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