Largely influenced by fleeting memories from her childhood, Emilia Evans-Munton is a sculptor currently based in Glasgow. Her practice is heavily process-driven and intuitively led by the textural qualities of materials; speaking both personally and universally to the equally tender and harsh qualities of nostalgia that come to contextualise her sculptures. Scale is a very important factor for Emilia, helping the audience to return to a (perhaps repressed) state of childlike fascination and wonder.
A key focus of Emilia's work consists of challenging hierarchies between fine art and craft. Through her choice of materials and techniques, Emilia draws attention to how traditionally viewed ‘crafts’ hold significant value within the contemporary art world. She experiments with the placement of craft techniques in unconventional places such as her choice to bring the craft of sand-sculpting into an institutional space such as the RSA.
Sandcastles are temporary objects; in here exhibited work, Emilia attempts to fulfil a childhood desire to preserve a sandcastle forever, reflecting on the impossibility of holding onto fleeting states of nostalgia such as innocence, memory, and childhood.
Emilia is a graduate of Glasgow School of Art and was awarded Visual Arts Scotland’s Graduate award and a Guinness World Record for her degree show.
