“Costume: a way of assuming an identity? Spotlight or dunce’s hat?”
Emma Gregory is an artist living in Bristol - formerly of London, Leeds and Liverpool.
Her material practice deals with the business of human emotion. The medium is chosen to suit the content and switches: drawing, writing, painting, stitching, carpentry, print.
Emma also creates ‘learning communities’ around the questions in her practice. These have included the alternative MA Press Play (2016 - 2022) and the residency Body as a Tool for Visual Arts Research (2023).
In the nineties and the ‘nought-ies’ Emma worked as a programmer and programme manager (Riverside Studios, Yorkshire Dance and The Bluecoat, Liverpool); workshop leader (The Hayward, Whitechapel) and scenic artist (National Theatre, Souvenir Scenic Studios).
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Falmouth University, PGCHE, 2021
University of Central Lancashire, Masters in Fine Art with Distinction, 2011
London College of Furniture, City & Guilds various, 2000
City University London, Postgraduate Diploma in Arts Administration, 1991
Central School of Art & Design, BA Hons.Degree in Fine Art, Printmaking, 1988
Sir John Cass School of Art, Foundation Course in Art and Design, 1985
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Caught Playing (2024), St Anne's House, St Anne's, Bristol UK
Care & Control (2022), Birley Gallery and Studios, Preston, UK
HER-MIT (2019) curated by Natasha MacVoy, Dursley Glos. UK
Semi-Permanent Collections (2015 / 2016) Victoria Gallery and Museum, University of Liverpool UK
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Pink Noise, curated by Lisa Snook (March 2026) Stable Gallery Suffolk
Shape of Care (Jan - May 2026), The Holburne Museum
Woolwich Print Fair curated by Women in Print / Tracy Hill (UCLan) (Nov 2025), Woolwich
Perpetually Stew, live art exhibition curated by Buoys Buoys Buoys (July 2025), kit.form gallery
Pick it up, curated by Morven Mulgrew (Feb 2025), 17 Midland Road
THISS 2024, curated by Alice Sheppard Fidler at The Hide, (June 2024) SITE Festival, Stroud
Contested Territories, curated by The State of Print, (2022) IMPACT 12, Bristol
The house protects the dreamer (2021), Safehouse 1, London
Liverpool Bestiary (2018), 9th Annual International Conference on Visual and Performing Arts in Athens https://www.atiner.gr/arts, Greece
Doorways and Biography in Cloth, (2018) FaB, Bath
DRAWN (2017) Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
NOPE (2016), Bankside Gallery London
Druk Maken, (2015) Grafische Atelier Alkmaar, Netherlands
PENPAL (2012) Graphikwerkstatt Kölner, Cologne
Cornerstone (2011), Hope University, Liverpool
Trialogue (2010) Editions Gallery, Liverpool
Tiefsschwarz Deep Black (2010/11) LJMU, Cologne, Pančevo, and Serbia
Freaks (2010), The Crypt Euston, London
Masters’ Show (2010 and 2011) Atkinson Gallery, Somerset
Triple Echo (2008 – 2009) Wirral, Preston, Liverpool, Bristol IMPACT6
Artlab (2007) PR1 Gallery, University of Central Lancashire, Preston
Wrexham Print International (2007), Oriel Gallery and UK tour
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Drawbridge with visual artists Hammer Chen, Liz Greaves, Beck Slater, Mary Antoinette Armenti, Catherine White, Christine Chen and Kei Langley, The Pulp Room at Bricks St Anne’s, 2023
Body as a Tool, MAYK Space at Bricks’ St Anne’s House, (2023)
Women in Print, ArtLab, UCLan, Preston (2022)
The Garage, Bristol, UK (2020 and 2021)
Grafische Atelier Alkmaar, Netherlands (2017)
Graphikwerkstatt Kölner, Köln, Germany (2017)
Druk Maken, Grafische Atelier Alkmaar, Alkmaar, Netherlands (2015)
University of Liverpool, Permanent Collections, Liverpool, UK (2015)
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Article: ‘Harmonic Sequencing’ profile of artist Virginia Bridge, Printmaking Today Vol.34 no.135 (Summer Issue 2025)
Contributor: My body in my hands, (2024) ed. Nicola Grellier and Sam Lucas
Film: Expanded Print, obo UWE’s Centre for Print Research programme towards IMPACT 12 (2022)
Contributor: Szene Kölner Graphikwerkstatt (2020), ed. Andreas Vietz. Köln.
Contributor: Review of ‘The Women of Atelier 17 - Modernist Printmaking in Mid-Century New York’ by Christina Weil, (date) Vol 27 no. 1 Printmaking Today, pub. Cello Press, Cambridge
Film: Wellbeing and the Artist, obo UWE’s CFPR, Summer Print and Book Festival (2020)
Catalogue: Liverpool Bestiary, (2019), LADA, LJMU. Liverpool
Catalogue: Space and Time, UWE Bristol (2018)
Article: ‘Help! I need somebody’, Artists’ CPD post MA, Printmaking Today Vol.26 no.3 (2018)
Contributor: Review of ‘Rothenstein at the Fry Gallery’ (Feb 2018) Vol 27 no. 1 and Review of ‘Artist Boss’ (June 2017) Vol 26 no. 2 Printmaking Today, pub. Cello Press, Cambridge
Subject of film: GAA Druk Maken (2015) K1 Cultimedia, Alkmaar, Netherlands (see https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiruIcwkb9OILjrJUJQRjYA)
Subject of film: Semi-Permanent Collection, Victoria Gallery and Museum, University of Liverpool (online see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIRT6fZGziY) (2015)
Co-author: A better bite, written with Tracy Hill. Vol 20 Printmaking Today issue 79 (Autumn 2011), pub.Cello Press, funded by AHRC, also published online at http://nontoxicintaglio.tumblr.com
Contributor: DRAWING PAPER #3, (May 2011), pub Carney, Mike and Barraclough, Jon, Liverpool (also online at www.drawing-paper.tumblr.com)
Contributor: Cardboard Folly #1 THE FOLD. Speed, Emily (2010) ed. pub Emily Speed, Liverpool, ISSN 2044-9771
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Artist’s talk: Birley Gallery and Studios (2022)
Artist’s talk: UWE MA Multidisciplinary Print (2019)
Artist’s talk: ArtLab at UCLan, Preston (2018)
Artist’s talk: Grafische Atelier Alkmaar, Netherlands (2017)
Speaker: ‘Printmaking Today’, First Edition Symposium, Cork, Ireland (2017)
Artist’s talk: John Moores University, Liverpool Art and Design Academy (2016)
Artist’s talk: GAA Druk Maken, Grote Kerk, Alkmaar, Netherlands (2015)
Speaker: ‘Re-establishing print at the Bluecoat’, Pendle Print Festival (2014)
‘David Hockney – Early Reflections’, Walker Art Gallery (2013)
‘Printmakers’ Council Miniature Print Exhibition’, Kirkby Gallery (2011)
‘The Art Books of Matisse’, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (2011)
‘Lautrec: Lithography and Drawing’, Lady Lever Art Gallery (2010)
‘Whistler: The Gentle Art of Making Etchings’, Lady Lever Art Gallery (2009)