emily moore
Artist Profile
Emily Moore is a British artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans painting, weaving, installation and performance. Working across canvas, yarn and constructed environments, Moore builds a visual language rooted in lived experience, cultural memory and inherited narratives.
As a Black British woman of Caribbean — specifically Jamaican — heritage, Moore’s work engages with questions of identity, diaspora and belonging. Rather than presenting identity as fixed, her practice approaches it as fluid and evolving: a space of negotiation shaped by history, material and embodied knowledge.
Exploration sits at the core of her methodology. Whether working with paint, textile or participatory formats, Moore treats each medium as a site of inquiry. Threads, surfaces and gestures accumulate meaning, creating layered compositions that hold both personal and collective resonance.
Emily Moore graduated with First Class Honours from Edinburgh College of Art in 2013. She was awarded the Rise Art Painter of the Year Award in 2018 and was shortlisted for The Biscuit Factory Open Contemporary Young Artist Award in 2019 and 2020 — early indicators of a practice gaining national recognition. Since then, her work has continued to expand across gallery and project spaces in the UK.
Across mediums, Moore remains committed to building work that feels materially attentive and conceptually open — allowing histories to surface without being flattened.
