About
Emma J Brown is a North London-based multi-disciplinary artist, originally from Todmorden, West Yorkshire. Since graduating from Central Saint Martins in 2024, her practice has evolved into a tactile inquiry into materiality, spanning sculpture, investigative drawing, and sound installation.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, highlighted in a New York-based exhibition, Echoes. Currently, she is expanding her spatial practice as a set designer for a production at The Tower Theatre.
Experience
Nov 2025 - Feb 2026
April 2025
Sept-Oct 2023
May - June 2018
Set Designer, The Tower Theatre
Artist Talk at Central Saint Martins
Invigilator at Frieze London Art Fair
Internship with Touchstone Art Gallery, Rochdale
Education
2021-2024
BA Fine Art
University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins
Graduating with a first-class Degree in Fine Art, I gained skills in workshops which as wood fabrication, casting and digital manipulation, as well as the skills to push my work to its limits through investigative lens.
I was allocated space in the XD studio, XD meaning Extra Dimensional, which focused on the possibilities of not only ‘what does art mean?’ but also ‘what can art do?’ and ‘where can art be?’ Questioning the rights and responsibilities of the artist concerning audiences and the environment. The studio is considered a laboratory where ideas for interventions in the practice of everyday life can be generated.
2020-2021
Foundation Diploma in Art & Design
Leeds University of Arts
Achieving a Distinction in an Art & Design Diploma during COVID-19 allowed me to become a resourceful artist due to not having access to the studios and workshops as freely as we should have. This led to me having to identify my practice's core focuses and explore my interests in time, movement and functionality. I took a real interest in the idea of function. Whether that was to do with an object's function, or if it was to do with my function - added an extension or limitation to a limb or mechanism.
This year was where I found my self saying 'Make art for the sake of making art'. This phrase powered on my practice to where it is now.
