This solo exhibition by sculptor Emma Hunter entangles two bodies of work created seven years apart, before and after giving birth. 

While all bodily in nature, the latter works express her physical and emotional lived experiences of matrescence – the process of becoming a mother – with some sculptural forms becoming vehicles for cathartic release and healing. 

Emma Hunter is based between Edinburgh and London. Her artistic practice has focused around sculpture as a way to render ideas and experiences of the embodied in material form. 

This exhibition was made possible by funding from the Henry Moore Foundation.

Artist Biography
Emma Hunter MRSS is a sculptor and parent carer based between Edinburgh and London. She holds MA Distinction, and GradDip Distinction from Chelsea College of Arts in Spatial Design. 

Hunter has exhibited at several prestigious UK institutions since 2014 including the Royal Academy of Arts, Royal West Academy and Royal Scottish Academy, and is a recipient of the distinguished bursary award to join the Royal Society of Sculptors. 

In 2016 she had her first solo show at the Hundred Years Gallery followed by a period of making new work as the Foundry Fellow at Chelsea College of Art 2017/18. The sculptures from this period are largely unexhibited, with pregnancy, twins, parent caring and recovery from severe postpartum illness taking priority. 

Emma brings a new spiritual practice and interest ignited by these lived experiences, which include elements of movement and breathwork. Her arts practice continues to stem from the personal, yet seeks to relate through the universal through going back to the ancient. 

Hunter’s sculptural works are abstract but bodily in nature and aim to forge a visceral connection exploring psychological states/ actions. Concerns of matrescence, feminism, violence aim to be explored through visceral matter and vibrational sound.