Weightless I Emilie Syme-Lamont Emilie Syme-Lamont - Weightless I
Weightless I 2019
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Weightless I2019
oil on canvas
86 x 86 cm
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Weightless II Emilie Syme-Lamont Emilie Syme-Lamont - Weightless II
Weightless II 2019
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Weightless II2019
oil on canvas
33 x 33 cm
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Weightless III Emilie Syme-Lamont Emilie Syme-Lamont - Weightless III
Weightless III 2019
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Weightless III2019
oil on canvas
33 x 33 cm
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Legacy II Emilie Syme-Lamont Emilie Syme-Lamont - Legacy II
Legacy II 2019
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Legacy II2019
oil on canvas
28 x 33 cm
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Every Dog Has Its Day After Joan Jonas I Emilie Syme-Lamont Emilie Syme-Lamont - Every Dog Has Its Day After Joan Jonas I
Every Dog Has Its Day After Joan Jonas I 2019
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Every Dog Has Its Day After Joan Jonas I2019
oil on canvas
49 x 54 cm
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Every Dog Has Its Day After Joan Jonas II Emilie Syme-Lamont Emilie Syme-Lamont - Every Dog Has Its Day After Joan Jonas II
Every Dog Has Its Day After Joan Jonas II 2019
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Every Dog Has Its Day After Joan Jonas II2019
oil on canvas
49 x 54 cm
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Every Dog Has Its Day After Joan Jonas III Emilie Syme-Lamont Emilie Syme-Lamont - Every Dog Has Its Day After Joan Jonas III
Every Dog Has Its Day After Joan Jonas III 2019
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Every Dog Has Its Day After Joan Jonas III2019
oil on canvas
49 x 54 cm
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Every Dog Has Its Day After Joan Jonas IV Emilie Syme-Lamont Emilie Syme-Lamont - Every Dog Has Its Day After Joan Jonas IV
Every Dog Has Its Day After Joan Jonas IV 2019
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Every Dog Has Its Day After Joan Jonas IV2019
oil on canvas
49 x 54 cm
$1,050  ENQUIRE
Young Americans II Emilie Syme-Lamont Emilie Syme-Lamont - Young Americans II
Young Americans II 2019
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Young Americans II2019
oil on canvas
40 x 52 cm
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Young Americans I Emilie Syme-Lamont Emilie Syme-Lamont - Young Americans I
Young Americans I 2019
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Young Americans I2019
oil on canvas
49 x 52 cm
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Rivalry II Emilie Syme-Lamont Emilie Syme-Lamont - Rivalry II
Rivalry II 2019
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Rivalry II2019
oil on canvas
59 x 74 cm
$1,300  ENQUIRE
Rivalry I Emilie Syme-Lamont Emilie Syme-Lamont - Rivalry I
Rivalry I 2019
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Rivalry I2019
oil on canvas
59 x 74 cm
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Legacy I Emilie Syme-Lamont Emilie Syme-Lamont - Legacy I
Legacy I 2019
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Legacy I2019
oil on canvas
28 x 33 cm
$680  ENQUIRE
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Emilie Syme-Lamont is an Australian artist currently based in Budapest. She recently graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Drawing from the National Art School in Sydney.

Emilie's interest lies in the fallible and obscured areas of memory that inform how past material can influence present and future narratives of the self. This series speaks to her fascination with objects that are at once personal and cultural.

I. That Goldfish Myth

  • No matter common conceptions
  • we aim to make their lives
  • interesting
  • poor captives
  • difficult to see for its difference
  • bubbled breath - humming, disturbing the water
  • in its ticklish desperate way.

II. A Collection of Things as They Seemed

  • All assembled, a distinctive dossier of us
  • emerges
  • written with light as if light
  • could penetrate stone
  • transform pets and party dresses
  • into things fixed -
  • remembered and revered as Tablets of Law
  • then later,
  • bloody historians revise.

III. Rearranging the Furniture

  • When you take the S.N.C.F
  • from Lourdes to Bordeaux
  • the carriages cleave apart like magnets
  • suddenly repelled
  • for divergence of direction on a sick tilt
  • unmoored

IIII. Past continuous

  • A mood most skilled in
  • acrobatics - requires tension -
  • slacklines suspended
  • above and
  • below
  • the plot
  • of each tale and
  • show
  • Come curtain call
  • ovation, continuous

By Eleni James. James is a writer living in Melbourne. Her work explores interior geographies and the construction of personal mythologies.

Emilie Syme-Lamont

EDUCATION

2018

  • Masters of Fine Art (Drawing), National Art School, Sydney

2016

  • Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting), National Art School, Sydney

2009

  • Bachelor of Fine Art (Sculpture), RMIT, Melbourne

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019

  • ‘Moving Images’, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane

2017

  • ‘Do you remember when TV ended?’, M Contemporary, Sydney

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018

  • ‘Released’, National Art School Post Graduate Exhibition, Sydney

2017

  • Texta, Library Stairwell Gallery, Sydney
  • ‘YAI’, M. Contemporary, Sydney
  • ‘At the End of the World’, M Contemporary, Sydney

2016

  • National Art School Graduation Show, National Art School, Sydney
  • ‘Imitation Green Cordial’, Library Stairwell Gallery, Sydney 2016 The Grid, St. Vincents Hospital, Sydney‘30 x 30’, Galleria7, Sydney

2015

  • ‘Another Landscape’, NAS Hoffspace, Sydney

2013

  • ‘The Outsider’, Muzsi, Budapest, HU
  • ‘Idle hands’, Kau Cafe, Melbourne

2011

  • ‘Emerging artists’, Framers Gallery, Sydney

2009

  • RMIT group show, RMIT, Melbourne
  • Site specific installation, Spencer st. Melbourne

AWARDS AND PRIZES

2016

  • Winner, AGNSW Robert La Gay Brereton drawing prize

COLLECTIONS

  • National Art School Archive
  • Private collections in Australia

17 October 2019 – 2 November 2019
Emilie Syme-Lamont ‘Moving Images’