Memory, Mind & Media is delighted to be working with Emma as our Artist in Residence.

About Emma

Emma Robertson is an award winning artist, whose work is in seven public collections in four countries. The Hospital Trust for Scotland purchased two works for their permanent collection, which were commissioned by the Scottish Arts Council for the exhibition Wordworks.

Emma’s work has been competitively selected for the Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, the JADA, and four International Biennials of Drawing. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Scientia Education Fellow / Associate Professor at UNSW, and a previous Artist in Residence at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. Her artwork focusses on using drawn images of endangered plant species to enhance engagement with ecology and the environment, through a meditative reflection on beauty, loss and memory.

Related videos:

In conversation with Memory, Mind & Media Artist in Residence and Associate Editor Emma Robertson

Editor Amanda J. Barnier talks to Emma about her exciting role as Artist in Residence and Associate Editor and the content she is looking forward to being submitted to the journal. Emma discusses how her work reflects her engagement with varying concepts of memory from different disciplines and shares several visual examples of her work including the artwork featured on the MMM cover. 

Memory in a Time of Pandemic, Episode 6: Emma Robertson

MMM Editor Amanda Barnier talks to the world’s leading memory experts about the ways in which the Covid pandemic is shaping our individual and collective remembering and forgetting. What will they personally remember from this time?

Artist in Residence Emma Robertson explains the inspiration and concept behind the beautiful Memory, Mind & Media cover