Emma McNally
“In the polyrhythmic, indeterminate zone of a drawing, space, time and matter fluctuate: pollen, data, microbes, archipelagos, sea, ice, weather, cloud, currents, geology, smoke, cellular mitochondria, city lights, constellations, virus, plankton, enzymes, catalysts, caspases, protein chains and rings, mycelial networks, electric circuitries, spores, shoals, flocks, notation, quantum spin, water and carbon cycling, oscillations and vibrations across spectrums visible and invisible.”
Born 1969, Essex, lives and works in London. Studied Philosophy and Literature at the University of York before continuing her thinking visually through drawing. Recent solo and group exhibitions include: ‘The Earth is Knot Flat’, The Drawing Room, London UK (2024); ‘Afterness’, Artangel / National Trust, Orford Ness, UK (2021). 20th Biennale of Sydney, AU (2016) and ‘The form of the Form’, Lisbon Architecture Triennale(2016). ‘Mirrorcity’, Hayward Gallery, London, UK (2015). ‘Seeing/Knowing’, Kenyon College of Liberal Arts, Ohio, US (2011).
In the period 2016–21, McNally withdrew from exhibiting and was involved intensely with political activism. McNally was the recipient of the Canal and River Trust, London from 2014–16.
Her works are held in numerous private and public collections including Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, US and MONA, AU.
Born 1969, Essex, lives and works in London. Studied Philosophy and Literature at the University of York before continuing her thinking visually through drawing. Recent solo and group exhibitions include: ‘The Earth is Knot Flat’, The Drawing Room, London UK (2024); ‘Afterness’, Artangel / National Trust, Orford Ness, UK (2021). 20th Biennale of Sydney, AU (2016) and ‘The form of the Form’, Lisbon Architecture Triennale(2016). ‘Mirrorcity’, Hayward Gallery, London, UK (2015). ‘Seeing/Knowing’, Kenyon College of Liberal Arts, Ohio, US (2011).
In the period 2016–21, McNally withdrew from exhibiting and was involved intensely with political activism. McNally was the recipient of the Canal and River Trust, London from 2014–16.
Her works are held in numerous private and public collections including Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, US and MONA, AU.
Website
emmamcnallydrawing.co.uk
Press
Art Monthly no 479: ‘After Mallarmé Part Two ...contingency, the operator / Part Three ... perhaps ... a constellation’, Andrew Chesher, September 2024
Art Monthly, ‘Vanessa Billy, Emma McNally: Time Spirals’, Matthew Bowman, February 2023
emmamcnallydrawing.co.uk
Press
Art Monthly no 479: ‘After Mallarmé Part Two ...contingency, the operator / Part Three ... perhaps ... a constellation’, Andrew Chesher, September 2024
Art Monthly, ‘Vanessa Billy, Emma McNally: Time Spirals’, Matthew Bowman, February 2023