Bio

Emma Pinsent is an artist living and working between the unceded lands of the Arakwal-Bundjalung people (Northern New South Wales) and Gadigal-Bidjigal people (Sydney) in so-called Australia. Her artistic research utilises sculpture and installation methods to examine the porous material afterlives of specific locations and spaces, focusing on post-consumer materials and their relationship to ecology, industries of extraction, property, colonisation, and the built environment. Her process is guided by fieldwork, walking, archival research, and material experimentation, shaping her poetic, site-responsive installations. In 2019, she completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at UNSW: Art & Design, and in 2022 began a PhD (Art & Design) at the same institution, supported by the Australian Government RTP Scholarship. She has presented in group, duo, and solo exhibitions in Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra, and Tasmania at publicly funded ARI spaces and a commercial gallery. She has been a finalist in several awards.


I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the lands from which I live, work, and learn, the Arakwal people of the Bundjalung Nation and the Gadigal and Bidjigal people of the Eora Nation. I also acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the coastal beaches and wetlands from which I grew up, the Darkinjung people. I pay my deep respect to their millennia-old stories, culture and ongoing custodianship of Country. I extend this respect to Elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded. 

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