Emily Hawes

Emily Hawes is an artist-educator, currently teaching on BA (Hons) Fine Art at AUB.

She primarily works with 8mm and 16mm film to unearth entanglements between people, place and ecologies. Her films respond to untold, latent and speculative histories and relations that are entangled within landscapes, bodies, matter, ruins, relics and artefacts. Through fieldwork, archival investigations and interdisciplinary collaboration, she seeks to trace, reconfigure and complicate the narrative frameworks we use to understand the world around us. Her practice is informed by literature, ecological thinking and post-human feminist theory, and is best characterised by the Italian word intreciarre (meaning to entwine, weave or braid).

Emily graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art MFA programme in 2014 and studied BA Fine Art at Brighton University (2009–2012). She also completed a Foundation Diploma in Art and Design at Falmouth University (2008–2009). She has recently completed a PGCert in Creative Education at UCA (2021) and is a Fellow of Advance HE.

In her professional practice, Emily has worked with arts organisations such as Eastside Projects, Gasworks, DKUK and Art Licks. Her work has been exhibited and screened at MK Gallery, OUTPOST, Wysing Arts Centre, Modern Clay and Rivoli Due in Milan. Recently, Emily was commissioned by MK Arts for Health and The Old Waterworks to develop new site-specific work, and has received bursaries and project funding from Artists Newsletter, Arts Council England, Curator Space and Angus Council.

In 2024, she co-edited What is a Studio, Anyway? (funded by UCL Arts and Humanities Grant), a new publication that brings together artists, curators, designers, educators and arts professionals across the UK and further afield to share, question and contemplate the idea of the artist’s studio and the role of Higher Education in shaping it.