Inverted Night Emily Imeson Emily Imeson - Inverted Night
Inverted Night 2020
Inverted NightEmily ImesonInverted Night
Inverted Night2020
Mixed Media On Canvas
86 x 105 cm
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Moving Swiftly Emily Imeson Emily Imeson - Moving Swiftly
Moving Swiftly 2020
Moving SwiftlyEmily ImesonMoving Swiftly
Moving Swiftly2020
Mixed Media On Canvas
82 x 77 cm
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Before The Brawl Emily Imeson Emily Imeson - Before The Brawl
Before The Brawl 2020
Before The BrawlEmily ImesonBefore The Brawl
Before The Brawl2020
Mixed Media on Canvas
79 x 125 cm
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Night Fall In Our Tent Emily Imeson Emily Imeson - Night Fall In Our Tent
Night Fall In Our Tent 2020
Night Fall In Our TentEmily ImesonNight Fall In Our Tent
Night Fall In Our Tent2020
Acrylic On Canvas
65 x 105 cm
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Orange Belly, Purple Trees Emily Imeson Emily Imeson - Orange Belly, Purple Trees
Orange Belly, Purple Trees 2020
Orange Belly, Purple TreesEmily ImesonOrange Belly, Purple Trees
Orange Belly, Purple Trees2020
Acrylic On Canvas
81 x 78 cm
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Leatherwood Lurve #1 Emily Imeson Emily Imeson - Leatherwood Lurve #1
Leatherwood Lurve #1 2020
Leatherwood Lurve #1Emily ImesonLeatherwood Lurve #1
Leatherwood Lurve #12020
Acrylic On Canvas
145 x 112 cm
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Have You Ever Stared A Platypus In The Face? Emily Imeson Emily Imeson - Have You Ever Stared A Platypus In The Face?
Have You Ever Stared A Platypus In The Face? 2020
Have You Ever Stared A Platypus In The Face?Emily ImesonHave You Ever Stared A Platypus In The Face?
Have You Ever Stared A Platypus In The Face?2020
Acrylic On Canvas
130 x 102 cm
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Pencil Pine, Waratah Tarn Emily Imeson Emily Imeson - Pencil Pine, Waratah Tarn
Pencil Pine, Waratah Tarn 2020
Pencil Pine, Waratah TarnEmily ImesonPencil Pine, Waratah Tarn
Pencil Pine, Waratah Tarn2020
Acrylic On Canvas
120 x 120 cm
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Hartz Mountain, Waratah Tarn Emily Imeson Emily Imeson - Hartz Mountain, Waratah Tarn
Hartz Mountain, Waratah Tarn 2020
Hartz Mountain, Waratah TarnEmily ImesonHartz Mountain, Waratah Tarn
Hartz Mountain, Waratah Tarn2020
acrylic on canvas
80 x 80 cm
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Leatherwood Lurve #2 Emily Imeson Emily Imeson - Leatherwood Lurve #2
Leatherwood Lurve #2 2020
Leatherwood Lurve #2Emily ImesonLeatherwood Lurve #2
Leatherwood Lurve #22020
Acrylic On Canvas
112 x 82 cm
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Tassie Bush, Blue Gums Emily Imeson Emily Imeson - Tassie Bush, Blue Gums
Tassie Bush, Blue Gums 2020
Tassie Bush, Blue GumsEmily ImesonTassie Bush, Blue Gums
Tassie Bush, Blue Gums2020
Acrylic On Canvas
125 x 95 cm
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Past The Water To The Flower Fall Emily Imeson Emily Imeson - Past The Water To The Flower Fall
Past The Water To The Flower Fall 2020
Past The Water To The Flower FallEmily ImesonPast The Water To The Flower Fall
Past The Water To The Flower Fall2020
Oil On Canvas
110 x 137 cm
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Pencil Pine Palace Emily Imeson Emily Imeson - Pencil Pine Palace
Pencil Pine Palace 2020
Pencil Pine PalaceEmily ImesonPencil Pine Palace
Pencil Pine Palace2020
Mixed Media on Canvas
100 x 105 cm
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Dinner Guest At Dusk Emily Imeson Emily Imeson - Dinner Guest At Dusk
Dinner Guest At Dusk 2020
Dinner Guest At DuskEmily ImesonDinner Guest At Dusk
Dinner Guest At Dusk2020
Acrylic On Canvas
44 x 40 cm
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Scarlet Sentry Emily Imeson Emily Imeson - Scarlet Sentry
Scarlet Sentry 2020
Scarlet SentryEmily ImesonScarlet Sentry
Scarlet Sentry2020
Acrylic On Canvas
37 x 43 cm
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Tassie Bush, Devil's Den Emily Imeson Emily Imeson - Tassie Bush, Devil's Den
Tassie Bush, Devil's Den 2020
Tassie Bush, Devil's DenEmily ImesonTassie Bush, Devil's Den
Tassie Bush, Devil's Den2020
Acrylic On Canvas
125 x 85 cm
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Tasmania; the final destination of a curtailed journey wandering Australia. With a world pandemic enforcing travel restrictions, I retreated home to Northern New South Wales. ‘Painting Tasmania’ evolved as a vicarious pleasure when the world was sent into lockdown and isolation.

Reliving my time in the endemic wonderland became an antidote to states of chaos, infecting society. A land of sanctuary and the last frontier for many species, these paintings transport me to a place of refuge. Becoming my companions these works are fuelled by recollections, sustained by emotions, and abstracted through processes of remembering.

Painting Tasmania’ is a tribute to the resilience of the natural world that allows us to exist.

…As we walked into the forest with packs full of food, water and shelter, the land shifted from dry sclerophyll to wet, green, mossy rainforest. Over-saturated with green and brown, it was easy to see the slow moving black snake, but the echidna was only visible from the sound of scratching wood. The distant calls of the yellow-tailed black cockatoos grew louder and it was as if we walked into a wall of honey. Leatherwood flowers in full bloom provided a banquet for the excitable birds. Soon we were on mountains with snow and thousand year old conifers, mystified by the multitude of tarns and fresh water. Instantly saturated when the rain came, but still excited to see Tasmanian Devil scats. We set up camp and as I painted, our neighbour came to investigate, the largest platypus I have seen, bold and unafraid. The sun gave pink kisses as the night fell into out tent and wisdoms of wombats emerged. Blue Gums with pink bark surrounded us and at dusk, a devil walked in for dinner. The mountain cradled us as we slept underneath a star soaked sky. Delicate birds made sure we weren’t a threat and I can’t stop thinking about those Leatherwood flowers…

Emily Imeson 2020

Having spent the past few years as a perpetual nomad, passing through some of Australia’s most iconic landscapes, Emily Imeson can speak with authority on the therapeutic benefits of being engulfed by nature. For Imeson, it is fundamental to her wellbeing – living in a 4WD and working from a camp studio where canvases are routinely supported by tree branches instead of easels, provides calm and perspective amongst life’s dramas. It is a way of life that both balances the artist and reinforces her interest in celebrating and preserving the ancient connection between humanity and the land. A truly plein air painter, Imeson’s canvases depict the incredible natural phenomena she witnesses – dramatically transformed landscapes at dusk, the mass movement of wildlife through habitats, arid rockscapes bathed in sunlight, a jet-black sky filled with stars.

To date Imeson’s practice has been as much about the experience of continuous wanderlust as it has the act of painting however newly introduced restrictions to travel and outdoor activities have forced a rethink on how she connects with her environment. Now living a more sedentary lifestyle in Northern New South Wales, she is working from memory, finding new ways to describe the places she has been and learning to embrace change as readily as the landscape around her always has.

Emily Imeson is an alumnus of Southern Cross University, completing her Bachelor of Visual Arts in 2016. Winner of the Macquarie Group Emerging Art Prize in 2019, she was supported by a Young Regional Arts Scholarship through ARTS New South Wales from 2016-18. In 2020 she was a recipient of the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship.

Carrie McCarthy, 2020

Emily Imeson

EDUCATION

2021

  • Southern Cross University - Visual Arts Honours

2016

  • Bachelor of Visual Arts, Southern Cross University, Lismore

2015

  • Internship, Lismore Regional Gallery

2013

  • Diploma of Visual Arts, Southbank Institute of Technology, Brisbane

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021

  • 'Within and Below', EDWINA CORLETTE, Brisbane
  • Ancient River, River Red - Saint Cloche, Sydney

2020

  • 'Painting Tasmania', EDWINA CORLETTE, Brisbane
  • 'Take Me There', Saint Cloche, Sydney

2019

  • 'Emily Imeson', A.K.Bellinger Gallery, Inverell
  • 'Memories of Place', Dungog Contemporary, NSW

2018

  • 'Experienced Landscapes II', Northern Rivers Community Gallery, Ballina

2017

  • 'Experienced Landscapes', Lone Goat Gallery, Byron Bay

2016

  • 'Portraits of Landscapes', Pearces Creek Hall NSW

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020

  • 'My Imagination', Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
  • Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship Recipient, Sydney
  • Sydney Contemporary Presents (online)

2019

  • '25/25', Alumni Exhibition Southern Cross University, Lismore
  • 'Memory and Landscape', A.K.Bellinger Gallery, NSW
  • 'Share the Dignity', The Happenstore, Sydney

2018

  • 'The Other Art Fair', Sydney

2017

  • 'The Goat Show', Lone Goat Gallery, Byron Bay

2015

  • 'Transit', Gallery 1.29, Lismore
  • 'Calibre', Gallery 1.29, Lismore

2014

  • 'Autonomania', Gallery 1.29 Lismore

2013

  • 'Aspect', Southbank Institute of TAFE, QLD

AWARDS

2021

  • Southern Cross University School of Social Science Honours Scholarship

2020

  • Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship Recipient

2019

  • Winner, Macquarie Group Emerging Artist Prize, Sydney
  • Honourable Mention, John Villiers Outback Art Prize, Winton, QLD
  • Finalist, Beverley Art Prize, WA
  • Finalist, The Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Awards, Lane Cove Gallery, Sydney

2017

  • Finalist, Coraki Art Prize, NSW

2016

  • Recipient, Young Regional Artist Scholarship, ARTS NSW

2014

  • Recipient, Rising Star Scholarship, The New Camera House, Lismore
  • Finalist, Coraki Art Prize, NSW

2013

  • Finalist, Bentley Art Prize, Bentley Hall, NSW

COLLECTIONS

  • Macquarie Group
  • Northern Rivers Community Gallery, Ballina Shire Council
  • Private collections

October 6, 2020

EMILY IMESON, A RECIPIENT OF THE 2020 BRETT WHITELEY ART SCHOLARSHIP

For the first time in its 22 year history, the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship has been awarded to five artists, one of whom is Emily Imeson.

Congratulations Charlie Ingemar Harding (Victoria), Emily Grace Imeson (NSW), Dan Kyle (NSW), Lily Platts (NSW) and Georgia Spain (Tasmania).

Art Gallery of New South Wales Director, Michael Brand, said that in one of the most challenging years the arts community has ever experienced he’s delighted that the Scholarship could be awarded, albeit in a different format.

‘That the Scholarship this year is shared between five artists instead of a single artist speaks to the moment we’re in, where we all need to work together and find new ways of thinking for the benefit of our community.

‘The Scholarship remains a prestigious, national painting award and I welcome all five recipients to the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship alumni who have, like Brett Whiteley before them, had their worlds open up as a result of being offered this opportunity to spend time creating work in a new location,’ Brand said.

EMILY IMESON TALKS TO MARIA STOLJAR ON 'TALKING WITH PAINTERS' 2020

24 August 2021 – 11 September 2021
Emily Imeson ‘Within and Below’

20 February 2020 – 14 March 2020
My Imagination - The Next Generation