About

What is a photograph?

This question is at the heart of the creative process of UK based artist Emilie Poiret-Brown. Using cameraless processes she explores the boundary between painting and photography, with a focus on materiality and mark-making. Emilie interacts directly with the photographic surface and materials without the intervention of a lens. In this her work is akin to painting, but unlike a painter, the medium she uses is inherently highly unpredictable. Emilie is drawn to the lack of certainty that this brings.

Working Spaces:

The Artist
Materials
Process
Ideas
Chance
No technology
No machines
No apparatus
No second chances

Embracing uncertainity

Features

2022

Lens Culture, Svitlo- Images of Light for Ukraine, Sophie Wright
Cluster, Exhibitors Profile

2021

Tied to Light Vol. 1, Anna Luk & Lucy Kane
Aeonian Magazine, Issue No. 5
Photomonitor, Struck By Light Group Exhibition, Ish Doney
Lenscratch, Struck By Light: What is a 20th Century Photograph?, Aline Smithson

2020

Float, Artist Feature: Facture
Outlast Journal, Artist Feature: Facture
The Social Distance Art Project, Artist Feature
F-Stop, Issue 101
Photograd, Instagram Takeover

Awards

2022 Shortlisted Ellen Carey Experimental Open Call

They are boundaryless, playful, disruptive, inquisitive, conceptual, camera less, lens based, process based, additive and very contemporary and fantastically NOW- Hundred Heroines

2019 Winner Arts Univeristy Bournemouth The Anne Corkett Prize for Photography

Ever present in the darkroom, Emilie has demonstrated a commitment to the analogue process, materiality and reflexivity, culminating in a series of works involving gesture and the limits of mark making as defined by the body. Performing the image, Emilie has successfully positioned the photograph in connection to performance and painting.