Emily is a maker, material investigator and creative facilitator working with clay and people. She runs a small-batch, sustainably minded ceramics practice, making quiet, understated vessels and objects designed to be loved and lived alongside for many years to come.

Her practice sits in the space between maker and material autonomy: sensitively and curiously exploring tactility, light and form, while allowing clay to lead the process and push beyond its traditional or anticipated guises. Increasingly, this has developed into a more intentional and functional body of work, where the everyday vessel becomes a site for connection, ritual and contemplation.

Her making is slow, cyclical and heavily material and process-led. She instinctively gravitates towards repetitive and labour-intensive processes that invite a state of almost devotional making - nurturing, refining and working in tandem with the material at every stage. The resulting work is a collaboration, a conversation and a container: an exploration of the quiet, tactile and sometimes sacred qualities that can exist within the everyday.

A deep awareness of the environmental impact of ceramic production underpins the practice. Emily works predominantly with reclaimed and recycled clay bodies, which now make up almost 70% of her working materials, continually integrating waste from many years of studio practice back into new work. This is both a practical and physical act of memorialising a cyclical process: waste, past actions and memories are reclaimed and reimagined into new potential, becoming part of the cycle once again.

Alongside her studio practice, Emily also undertakes freelance work across arts facilitation, mentoring and teaching. Having worked across many aspects of arts administration, management and creative facilitation, supporting artists and creative communities remains an important and complementary part of her practice.