Emma Hamshare

Hydra
Hand painted silk habotai
2019
Addressing contemporary material and spatial challenges, Emma works at the intersection of often delineated disciplines. Her work echoes the symphonies of everyday life and investigates proprioception and interoception, often working in collaboration with engineers and scientists to create meaningful change, new knowledge, and technological innovation.
In the creation of large-scale art pieces, control is often relinquished and liquid colour is allowed to move freely across the silk to allow the work to find it's own conclusions. Often working with intelligent materials and soft systems, Emma's work revolves around health in the context of an increasingly chaotic world, she translates colour into code, pattern into numbers and movement into sounds.
Since graduating from the Royal College of Art, Emma has worked on innovative textiles and garments for Fairspace at Imperial College, to improve the health of astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Emma lectures on the Fashion Design Development course at the University of the Arts London, teaching future textile and fashion technologies. She is also a Zen mindfulness meditation leader having studied this at Imperial College.