From Within the Coal House is an evolving new body of work. Emma invites us into her transition experience, which cannot be untied from the intergenerational haunting of deindustrialisation reverberating across space and time. From within her coal house, Emma asks us to bear witness to her struggles with haunted memories of belonging and identity as she uses collage, mixed media and installation to bring ideas from her past, present and future into conversation with one another, allowing for the simultaneous fragmentation and re-assembly of objects of representation.
