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Emma Hirsk

http://www.emmahirsk.com

Stockholm, Sweden
Born in Northern Ireland, Emma has exhibited across the USA, UK and Europe. Gaining her undergraduate degree in Jewellery/Metalwork in 1998, Emma honed her sculptural fabrication skills at Fine Art Foundries in Ireland and the USA. Emma gained her M.A. Fine Art in 2004 from Northumbria University, and her Sculptural works extrapolate the binaries between Subject and Object, Landscape and Artefact, and Space and Place.

Call for ideas 2021

Women's Movement


The Visible/Invisible Female in Public Space.

Women's Movement


The Visible/Invisible Female in Public Space.
Spatio-Sculptural practices will inform a female reading of public Space and Place.
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Type of project
  • Site-specific cases

This proposal lies at the intersection between Artistic, Spatial, Environmental and Feminist practices, with a remit that correlates inter-disciplinary knowledges across Art, Architecture, Urban/Rural Planning, Ecology, and the Social sciences, to inform a cohesive female reading of Space and Place.

With a definition of sculpture as radical artistic-spatial practice, “not-landscape and not architecture” (Krauss 1979, p. 37), this research repositions the interrelationship between encounter, publicness, photography and materiality to activate a dialogue around the gender, agency, autonomy and safety of public, private and contested space.

By weaving together threads of Socio-Spatial dialogues, with radical Sculptural and Architectural practices, this research proposes an experimental and symbiotic approach to generate, activate and project new knowledges, alternative dialogues and possible futures on the freedoms, movement and mobility of women.


Assault Protection Unit I (Foetal), Kvarndammen Installation, Sweden, 40cmx50cmx90cm, Copper wire, Galvanised Tin mesh, Aluminium, 2020. Emma Hirsk

Unknown (Memorial to All Childhoods), Public Commission, ‘New Spaces’, UK, 350cmx210cmx180cm, Mild steel, concrete, 2019. Emma Hirsk.

Object of Loss (Memorial to a Lost Baby), Donard Installation, UK, 50cmx50cmx50cm; 30cmx30cmx30xcm; 10cmx10cmx10cm, Mild steel, Gold leaf, 2018. Emma Hirsk.

Dendritic Systems-River Lagan Minor (781ft), Site-specific Sculptural Mapping, UK, 220cmx20cmx20cm, Modular stainless steel units, 2017. Emma Hirsk.

Littoral (Lough Swilly), Site-specific Sculpture, Ireland, 250cmx35cmx35cm, Stainless steel, Mild Steel, Perspex, solar light Source, 2016. Emma Hirsk.

Women's Movement


The Visible/Invisible Female in Public Space.

Women's Movement


The Visible/Invisible Female in Public Space.
Spatio-Sculptural practices will inform a female reading of public Space and Place.
File under
Type of project
  • Site-specific cases

This proposal lies at the intersection between Artistic, Spatial, Environmental and Feminist practices, with a remit that correlates inter-disciplinary knowledges across Art, Architecture, Urban/Rural Planning, Ecology, and the Social sciences, to inform a cohesive female reading of Space and Place.

With a definition of sculpture as radical artistic-spatial practice, “not-landscape and not architecture” (Krauss 1979, p. 37), this research repositions the interrelationship between encounter, publicness, photography and materiality to activate a dialogue around the gender, agency, autonomy and safety of public, private and contested space.

By weaving together threads of Socio-Spatial dialogues, with radical Sculptural and Architectural practices, this research proposes an experimental and symbiotic approach to generate, activate and project new knowledges, alternative dialogues and possible futures on the freedoms, movement and mobility of women.


Assault Protection Unit I (Foetal), Kvarndammen Installation, Sweden, 40cmx50cmx90cm, Copper wire, Galvanised Tin mesh, Aluminium, 2020. Emma Hirsk

Unknown (Memorial to All Childhoods), Public Commission, ‘New Spaces’, UK, 350cmx210cmx180cm, Mild steel, concrete, 2019. Emma Hirsk.

Object of Loss (Memorial to a Lost Baby), Donard Installation, UK, 50cmx50cmx50cm; 30cmx30cmx30xcm; 10cmx10cmx10cm, Mild steel, Gold leaf, 2018. Emma Hirsk.

Dendritic Systems-River Lagan Minor (781ft), Site-specific Sculptural Mapping, UK, 220cmx20cmx20cm, Modular stainless steel units, 2017. Emma Hirsk.

Littoral (Lough Swilly), Site-specific Sculpture, Ireland, 250cmx35cmx35cm, Stainless steel, Mild Steel, Perspex, solar light Source, 2016. Emma Hirsk.


Idea by

Emma Hirsk
Stockholm
Sweden
Born in Northern Ireland, Emma has exhibited across the USA, UK and Europe. Gaining her undergraduate degree in Jewellery/Metalwork in 1998, Emma honed her sculptural fabrication skills at Fine Art Foundries in Ireland and the USA. Emma gained her M.A. Fine Art in 2004 from Northumbria University, and her Sculptural works extrapolate the binaries between Subject and Object, Landscape and Artefact, and Space and Place.