Behind Smoke & Mirrors Residency & Exhibition
Artist in Residence
Emma WADE
Emma Wade is a Wexford born visual artist based in
Emma graduated from the IADT Dun Laoghaire with a BA in Interactive Media in 2002. She practiced as a designer for many years before receiving a MA from the Fine Art Department of the National College of Art and Design Dublin in 2008. In summer 2008, she completed an internship in New Media at the
Play and humour are used as tools to provoke thought, as well as entertain, in Emma's practice. She works with installation, digital media, video, audio, photography and performance. Her work is largely interactive and requires audience participation, there is an ask and a reward. The user often intentionally or unintentionally becomes a performer. Without their input the work is incomplete. Science and Pseudo-science heavily influence my practice. The conflict between scientific fact and common belief fascinates me. Defining proof, the notion of what is real and who decides. Recently, she explored the existence of emotion in animals; this led her to create a subjective simulation of the world from a dog's perspective. Current research investigates the physiological effects of deep pressure and cellular memory in a fine art context.
