About,
About
Installing Kerning, RM Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland. Photo by Loki Groves.
Emmalyn Hawthorne is a Magandjin/Brisbane based artist and writer. A process of collage investigating negative space has brought her to an expanded practice using new media processes. She is interested in how unusual juxtapositions and semantic multitudes in life foreground our need to make meaning. "There is something sad but also really human and honest in trying to narrativise the incongruous."
Emmalyn's work has been exhibited within Magandjin/Brisbane, Naarm/Melbourne, Kaurna Yarta/Adelaide, Lutruwita/Tasmania and Aotearoa/New Zealand. Highlights include: Orrery, a website produced with Hannah Jenkins for KINGS Artist-Run; Kerning, a group show about text that travelled to both Naarm and Aotearoa; and, Astrolabe, an ongoing site-specific project, iterations of which have been shown in Naarm, Kaurna Yarta, Lutruwita and Aotearoa. Emmalyn holds a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) from the Queensland College of Art and Design.
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This colour will take you somewhere else.
© 2026 Emmalyn Hawthorne