Emma Roche, Applicant 1

Oil on cotton over board.
20x17.5cm/7.9x6.9inches

Emma Roche’s work shift between the figurative and the abstract combining the methodologies of knitting or tapestry with paint to create layered and textured works. The artist explores ideas related to day jobs, waged and unwaged work, pregnancy and motherhood. Enquires into labour and employment, and our attitude toward them are present in the knitted paintings which are made with long lines of dried acrylic paint and used like wool or thread. Ideas concerning how we structure and organise time are highlighted through these painted forms as the labour involved in their production is apparent.