Jackson, Emma

Associate Member

Biography

Emma is an artist printmaker living and working in Manchester.

After completing her undergraduate studies with a BA in Design from Blackpool, she worked in the creative industries for almost 20 years. Emma returned to postgraduate study in 2017 and gained an MA with distinction from Manchester School of Art in 2019.

Since completing postgraduate studies, Emma has exhibited widely in group shows across the UK, including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2024, New Light Summer exhibition of the North 2024, and Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2023 and 2024. In 2025 Emma was awarded the Flourish Award for Excellence in Printmaking. 

Statement

I am fascinated by how we process our experiences, however mundane, and how they shape our identity. Through my work I seek to open a dialogue, speaking to truths of the past and offering sanctuary to new narratives.

With a passion for theatre, the experience of an audience when viewing performance arts inspires my research.

With recurring themes of absence, loss and memory, my work often responds to personal archives and found objects. Confronting the echoes of memory through processes of creation, destruction, isolation, and reconstruction, I aim to reflect what we choose to remember, what fades away, and what is entirely imagined.

Printmaking processes offer a level of tension vital to my practice, with landscapes forming an integral part of my visual language – symbolic of worlds where memories are both recalled and reinterpreted, each serving as testament to the fluidity of memory and the stories we tell ourselves.