Open Studio

Over three weeks, our artist-in-residence Emma Pinsent has been selecting three different sites within the wet sclerophyll forest on the Art Farm Birchs Bay property to learn about and respond to four different eucalyptus trees. This open studio invites you to come and meet Emma to learn more about her practice and see what she's been working on at the Art Farm.

About the Artist:

Emma Pinsent is an artist-researcher, and arts worker based between the unceded lands of the Arakwal people of the Bundjalung Nation and the Gadigal-Bidjigal people of the Eora Nation in so-called Australia. Her artistic research engages sculptural and installation processes to explore the porosity between humans and nonhuman nature within the climate crisis. She is interested in how the transformation of residual materials from local environments and past extractive industries may reveal complex interdependencies between ecology, geology, weather and extractive industries within place. Led by preliminary methods of fieldwork and walking, the ethical and ecological implications of place shape her artistic responses. Pinsent holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from UNSW: Art & Design. As of 2022, Pinsent is a PhD Candidate within the faculty of Art & Design at UNSW Art, Design and Architecture. She has presented exhibitions in Brisbane, Canberra, Sydney and Tasmania at publicly funded galleries, artist-run-initiative spaces and a commercial gallery. She has been a finalist in a number of awards.

Emma Pinsent is the current artist in residence at the Art Farm Birchs Bay, a regional arts not-for-profit, gallery, and venue located across a 100 hectares of working farm and native bushland.

The Perennial Residency at the Art Farm is supported by Arts Tasmania and the Department of State Growth, with partnership from Constance ARI.