Emily McGregor

Emily McGregor is an interdisciplinary artist, based on Australia’s east coast, on Arakwal-Bundjalung country. Her practice explores transformation and utilises varied media including installation, drawing, sculpture, video and photography.

McGregor holds Bachelor of Fine Art (2015) and Master of Fine Art (2017) degrees from National Art School, Eora/Sydney. She was awarded the Mark Tedeschi QC Art History and Theory Award (2013), the Mansfield Prize for Writing (2015) and the Clitheroe Master of Fine Art Scholarship Award (2015). She was commissioned by Willoughby Council, Eora/Sydney, in 2016 for Morphogenesis, a solo exhibition at Incinerator Art Space. She was a finalist in the Tom Bass Prize for Sculpture in 2018.

McGregor held her second solo exhibition ECDYSIS in March 2020, after selection for the exhibition program at BSA Project Space in the Northern Rivers. At the same time, her work Wake was shown in RISE, an exhibition at Carriageworks, Eora/Sydney, of artworks created with bushfire charcoal, silently auctioned to benefit charities aiding repair from the previous summer’s bushfires. Her work XX was selected by Jerico Contemporary in 2020 for the gallery’s group exhibition Intimacy, exploring intimacy during our first experience with lockdown. 

She has been involved with public art on site and installation teams for Sculptures By The Sea and as studio assistant to environmental artist Janet Laurence, working on the development and installation of artworks and exhibitions for City of Sydney, Australian Museum Sydney, Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide and Laurence’s survey exhibition, After Nature, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.