EMILY HANDLIN
ABOUTSydney-based artist Emily Handlin’s mixed media artworks are known to combine inner-city grit with cowboy romanticism.
Her works are in high demand, held in private collections across the world, including Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Italy, Costa Rica, New Zealand and Tamworth. Her work has been featured in RUSSH, Hunter & Folk, Habitus Living, Sanctuary Magazine and Emily was named Saatchi Art featured artist at The Other Art Fair Sydney.
Emily paints from her home studio in Sydney’s Inner West.
Artist Statement
For Frontier, I delve into complex interplay between memory and imagination. I invite viewers to reflect on the often blurred lines between our lived experiences and the fantasies we construct around them. Each work is set in a desert, which for me is a metaphor for the wild west within us all. And in this sparse landscape, I use bold, rough and fading strokes of oil pastel to evoke the sensation of recalling a memory. I encourage the audience to think about how we hold on to beautiful experiences, and appreciate the inherent fragility of memories.
