The Spaces Between

Emily Meilleur

Emily Meilleur on ‘The Spaces Between’

As an ecologist and botanist I have been studying the natural world, its complexity, connectivity and beauty. I approach art as a way of seeing and understanding the world, through interaction with people, materials and the environment. It is a playful investigation in which observation, drawing and physical interaction are key elements. I undertake little research, and often push materials to their destruction. My creations are constantly in a stage of becoming and can be viewed as the traces of a dialogue of discovery.

Like performance artist Marcus Coates and the Surrealists, I seek to create a connection with the dream world and I admire Cornelia Parker’s ability to look at materials afresh and present them to us in a poetic, conceptual form. My approach has been informed and influenced by artists and poets including Joseph Beuys, who said that everyone is an artist and my love of paper is from the poet Childe Roland.

My creative practice starts with thinking, looking, and experimenting. I use paper, pens, photographs, video, and found objects. For this project I have been…