Emily Burke

Little Windows, 2023

ceramics

Burke's artistic practice explores the material expressions of memories through touch. Delving into the dialect between personal experience and material connection. Particularly in reference to experiences of solitude: memories of time spent by herself since childhood, where she's been able to find contentment and warmth. Utilising repetition as a generative process, Emily has been exploring the organic-ness of clay as an alternative documenting material; with its opportunity to capture gestures, imprints and other extensions of the body. The forms are intuitively made, instructed from her hands, they're fluid and bulbous, each with a carved window gazing or looking in, both interacting and conversing with each other. This catalogue of anthropomorphic clay forms, each as an extension of Burke accumulating in an ever-enduring practice that expands across place and time.