Emma J Brown Studios

I’m Emma J Brown, a London-based artist originally from West Yorkshire, Todmorden. Working across sculpture, drawing, digital media, and moving image, my practice explores the fragmented human form and its relationship to the natural world. Through casting, repetition, and material experimentation, I create hybrid works that investigate how identity, body, and environment shift across states of transformation.

My work often reflects a dialogue between organic matter and digital processes. I’m particularly drawn to the tensions between the solid and the ephemeral—between physical presence and breath, weight and trace.

Themes of hybridity, liminality, and non-human agency guide much of what I do. I’m interested in how the body dissolves and reforms—mirroring landscapes, geological formations, and digital distortions. My recent project, The Becoming navigates these ideas through layered materials and open-ended forms.

I’m inspired by artists like Ana Mendieta and the symbiotic relationship between the body and landscape, as well as Bill Brandt’s beach photography has also had a lasting influence—his surreal, foreshortened nudes embedded in coastal terrain resonate with my own interest in scale, fragmentation, and the merging of human and landscape forms. His work informs how I approach bodily distortion and site, prompting me to reimagine the figure as both grounded and abstracted, both object and terrain.

Whether working with concrete, rock, or subtle mark-making, I aim to create spaces where transformation feels both intimate and expansive—where nothing is fixed, and everything is in the process of becoming.