Emily Woolley is a London-based sculptor and installation artist. Through her practice she is developing a unique and refined material language, combining materials that can slump and hold shape simultaneously to create sculptures that resist preconceived notions of materiality – softness holds weight; hardness trembles. Human in scale, her work concerns the meeting of bodies and the exchanges that happen within that moment. Touch informs and activates her sculpture. Some work, cast flat, gains form through an intimate process of bending, often taking shapes from parts of the artist’s own anatomy – some public, some more private. At the same time, Woolley explores the effect of presence, both current and past. The proximity of an observer can induce movement. Past interactions are suggested with texture and imprint.
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