Emily Edgar

Emily graduated from Central St Martins, UAL in 2025. Her practice is driven by a need to confront, archive, and explore systems—familial, architectural, digital, and political—that shape how we inhabit the world and ourselves. Drawing from her personal experience, Ukrainian heritage, and the psychological weight of both physical and virtual environments, she explore the entanglement of memory, identity, and power.

Much of her work begins with small fragments. These fragments, such as derelict wallpapers of homes, bruised skin, digital messages or mens corporate fashion, each act as entry points into broader narratives: intergenerational trauma, cultural erasure, digital violation, and gendered power structures. Continuously the artist is asking: What do we choose to look away from? What are we taught to dismiss as ugly, broken, or insignificant—and what systems or façades shape our perception?