New artist in-residence: Emma Buswell

Emma Buswell, The Pool (The Lady of Shallot), 2024, knitted wool and lurex yarns, 430 x 270cm (detail)

Emma Buswell, Endlessly Circling Fields, 2026, knitted lurex, wool, cotton, nylon yarn 150 x 290 cm

Emma Buswell is a West Australian based artist, curator and designer.

Emma is fascinated with systems of government, economies and culture particularly in relation to constructs of place, identity and community. Her current work is focusing on relationships between identity and place, with a motivated enquiry into the way in which kitsch and nostalgia play into our understandings of self-identification and personal histories. Using Tropes appropriated from popular culture and Australian art history, Buswell examines her own family histories intuited through conversations and the learnt craft techniques from her maternal family line

During her three-week residency at Lottozero, Emma will explore the felt loom as an extension of her textile practice. Building on her research into handcraft traditions, women's labour and textile histories, she will investigate how industrial felt-making can open up new material and visual possibilities.

Emma Buswell has had solo exhibitions across Western Australia and Victoria, and is collected in the State Collection of Western Australia, Artbank, the City of Joondalup and a number of private collections.