Emma Chalmers

Emma is an artist and picture framer who currently lives in Auckland. Prior to this, she lived in Dunedin from 2006 – 2016 and during this time she completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Dunedin School of Art with a major in painting. Following her studies, she rented a small studio in Allbell Chambers where she painted before moving to Auckland to start a Master of Fine Art at Elam which she completed in 2019. Emma’s work is playful and often explores the intersection of gender, power and place in imaginative and subtle imagery. She works in gouache, utilising its delicate, chalky qualities to render subjects – both real and imagined – onto large sheets of empty paper for the viewer to ponder and contextualise in their own time and place.

Dog Mother

Gouache on Paper 25cm x 25cm 2009