Emmie Ray Hubbard
About
Emmie Ray Hubbard is a British artist working between London and the Peak District. Emmie has been developing her material narrative at the RCA collaborating with archaeologists and craftsman to rediscover historic crafts. She achieved a BA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins and the expanded work from her MA calls for a resounding discussion about future urgencies by looking back in time to historic beliefs and practices.
STUDY:
MA Jewellery & Metal, Royal College of Art, London
BA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London
Erasmus Exchange, Accademia di Belle Arti, Macerata, Italy
EXHIBITIONS:
Matter-Morphosis, Dyson Gallery, London
Rodin: Modern Art, Ancient Inspiration, The British Museum, London
Art Room, Old Brompton Gallery, Kensington, London
Clyde and CO Art Award, London
Sarnanoscape, San Nano, Italy
AWARDS:
Royal College of Art Burberry Design Scholarship
Clyde and Co Art Award
Degree Details
Statement
Emmie looks to the past to celebrate our history as well as unravel questions on sustainability. As we become aware of the impact our species has upon our planet, Emmie searches for guidance from our ancestors. She delves into myths. She repeats what has been repeated. There's a sublime challenge of appreciating what thousands of years feel like.
During lockdown, Emmie has been collecting clay from Mam Tor in the Peak District. Mam Tor, Mother Hill, is studied for it's late bronze age history. She has been using the clay that is filled with ancient history to cast metal, replicating a prehistoric technique. This has enriched her material narrative and offered potential for future making.
The Field.
Grounding. Space to run. An ever continuum.
Thousands of paths interwoven between strands of grass.
You leave your trace as you walk through it.
Where the ground gives growth. Grasses touch. Riddles are posed through your fingertips,
through the whistling of winds, the sunburnt clay, the wave of terrain.
Walk in the field. A pilgrimage, not an attack.
scribbled field notes, imagined memoires. Step on steps that have been stepped.
Collect the rocks that have seen who were once seeing.
Walk through earth's time field. Repeating blind.
Time of light to dark. Dark to light.
I hear a sour sound in our mantra
The crinkle of the bottle I drink from as I walk.
Every step drawing louder.
The water holds a deep cry.
Let's retrace our steps and follow the tree's roots. To understand the process of weaving.
Let's touch the fingertips of the past to feel the echoes of the future.
Will we be ancient too?
Look to Earth
Look down to earth. Imagery of silhouetted faces looking down is taken from a painting in the British Museum and used as a template to create the profile of a vessel. The vessel itself is cast in clay collected from a farm in Suffolk using a prehistoric method of bronze casting. This is a vessel to take with you on a walk, hold in your hand as you look down and fill with the earth’s treasures.
Medium: Bronze vessel with clay mould.
Size: Bronze vessel, 7.3cm x 5.5cm. Clay mould, 11.6cm x 10.5cm.
Look to Earth I
Look down to earth. Imagery of silhouetted faces looking down is taken from a painting in the British Museum and used as a template to create the profile of a vessel. The vessel itself is cast in clay collected from a farm in Suffolk using a prehistoric method of bronze casting. This is a vessel to take with you on a walk, hold in your hand as you look down and fill with the earth’s treasures.
Medium: Bronze vessel with clay mould.
Size: Bronze vessel, 5.3cm x 5.3cm. Clay mould, 11cm x 10cm
Look to Earth II
Look down to earth. Imagery of silhouetted faces looking down is taken from a painting in the British Museum and used as a template to create the profile of a vessel. The vessel itself is cast in clay collected from a farm in Suffolk using a prehistoric method of bronze casting. This is a vessel to take with you on a walk, hold in your hand as you look down and fill with the earth’s treasures.
Medium: Bronze with clay moulds.
Size: Bronze vessels, 7.3cm x 5.5cm, 5.3cm x 5.3cm. Clay moulds, 11.6cm x 10.5cm, 11cm x 10cm.
Our Ancient Mark. Elm to Ash
Charcoal made from Ash and Elm wood.
In mythology, humans were created from Ash and Elm wood. A piece of Ash wood and Elm wood was found washed up at sea and the gods carved the human figure into each. The gods breathed life in to the wood creating human life. These tools were created to draw the outline of the human figure to talk to the genesis and extinction of human being.
These pieces are cast into clay dug from Mam Tor in the Peak District. Mam Tor, Mother Hill, is studied for it's late bronze age history. Emmie uses the clay from the womb of Mother Hill to cast metal into using a prehistoric technique.
Medium: Elm wood and Ash wood charcoal, bronze handles, bog oak inlay, clay moulds.
Size: Elm wood charcoal, 10.5cm x 4.7cm. Ash wood charcoal, 11cm x 5.5cm.
Our Ancient Mark
In mythology, humans were created from Ash and Elm wood. A piece of Ash wood and Elm wood was found washed up at sea and the gods carved the human figure into each. The gods breathed life in to the wood creating human life. These tools were created to draw the outline of the human figure to talk to the genesis and extinction of human being.
Bronze structures join the charcoal gestures to represent the solidity of our mark making in history.
Medium: Bronze, Ash wood and Elm wood charcoal on canvas
Our Ancient Mark II
Fragments of scribbled field notes stand monumental like stone circles. Ancient in bronze, these gestural vessels sit representing the solidity of our mark-making in history.
Medium: Bronze
Size: 28cm x 13.5cm, 20cm x 11.5cm.
Our Ancient Mark III
Fragments of scribbled field notes stand monumental like stone circles. Ancient in bronze, these gestural sculptures represent the solidity of our mark-making in history.
Medium: Bronze
Size: 36.5cm x 8.5cm, 19.5cm x 8cm, 18cm x 8cm.
In Collaboration with:
Sponsors
Burberry Design Scholarship
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