29/11/16
Interview: Emma Elliott
Emma Elliott: Reconciliation
Noho Studios, London
2-4 December 2016
and
A+E Studios, New York
1-31 March 2017
The work of the 2016
Passion For Freedom ambassador, Emma Elliott (b1983), certainly fits the
bill for her role: her current project, Reconciliation, to be launched in
London on 2 December, before touring to New York next spring, highlights the
suffering of humanity at the hands of its fellow humans, while also speaking of
the hope for finding a way forward; for unity and for reconciliation.
Classically trained in painting and figurative sculpture in London and
Florence, Elliott turned to working with marble for this ambitious project,
sculpting a larger-than-life arm, marked with the stigmata of Christ and the
tattoo of Eliezer, a survivor of Auschwitz, whom she met and befriended on a
kibbutz in Jerusalem.
Elliott spoke to Studio International about the project, its message
and her hopes for its future.
Read the interview here
Image:
Blood Is Not Wet
2016
Print, dimensions variable
© the artist