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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

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

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

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

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