Emma Witter

The British artist Emma Witter utilises intricate bone structures to create fragile, flower-patterned forms. To her, this organic material conveys beauty and spirituality rather than mortality. These opposing facets inspire Witter to bring to the surface the relics of domestic animals. She acts as a bone collector who salvages her medium from restaurants, butchers and her own cooking waste along with combing the river Thames. 

Interested in the history of this hard, whitish skeletal tissue and its past use, Witter states: 'the material reveals much more and dictates the works’. She does not sketch her ideas onto paper, she works with her hands, engaging in small three-dimensional experiments, testing how the individual segments assemble and embrace each other. Her method is visceral, envisaging her finished effigies.

Witter has participated in numerous exhibitions, most notably her solo show Remember You Must Die, Sarabande, the Lee Alexander McQueen Foundation, 2019, Bloom at Hix Art 2018, an exhibition resulting from her three-month residency at Hix’s Tramshed restaurant. Group shows in 2019 at Rear Window,  Repeat  and Florid at  Rear Window, London, Artists for Blue,  Blue Marine Foundation, & Andrea Hamilton Studio, Art in the City, The Painters’ Decorative & Fine Art Society.

From 2018 - 2019, she was 'Artist in Residence' at Sarabande, the Lee Alexander McQueen Foundation. She was selected twice for the ING Discerning Eye show at The Mall Galleries 2017, and The London Group Open at The Cello Factory, in 2017 and 2015. Recently, Witter's work has been highlighted by the Worth Global Style Network talent section as ‘One to Watch’. She has been featured in publications such as Architectural Digest, 'Show Studio', The Financial Times 'How To Spend It' and many more.

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Bone Dust, Daisies

2019
Giclee print on Hahnemuhle Bamboo Rag, edition of 10. Collaboration with Asiko.
H800 mm x W530 mm

Bone Dust, Lilies

2019
Giclee print on Hahnemuhle Bamboo Rag, edition of 10. Collaboration with Asiko
H800 mm x W530 mm

From Bloom I

2018
Giclee print on Hahnemuhle Bamboo Rag, edition of 10. Collaboration with Michael Jennison.
H720 mm x W540 mm

From Bloom II

2018
Giclee print on Hahnemuhle Bamboo Rag, edition of 10. Collaboration with Michael Jennison.
H720 mm x W540 mm