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Emma Bolland
@emmabolland.bsky.social
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artist/writer/lecturer (they/them).
co-editor at intergraphia.
'Showily abstruse'
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Making / installing my solo exhibition The Public Dream at The Art House UK. Drawing on the gallery's history as a Carnegie Library, the exhibition considers the ghost of materiality as a form of science fiction. Opens this Friday. All welcome.
the-arthouse.org.uk/exhibitions/...
A view from behind a wall of a dimly lit gallery, a white ziggarat at the end of the room. A view of a wall drawing in progress. A stepladder and a chair is in front of the wall. The drawing is hard to make out in the dim light. A long shot of a gallery showing two wheeled walls set aslant with a gap between them. One wall seems to have been drawn on in watery blues and greens. A stepladder sits under a spotlight. An oval, abstract video projection of turquoises and greys glows against a darkened wall.
November 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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The Public Dream 21–23 November 2025. Delighted to be working on this project with THE ART HOUSE. Transforming the Main Gallery into a live working studio from 10 Nov and unveiling fully with extended opening hours during the Light Up festival (21–23 November). the-arthouse.org.uk/news/autumn-...
An image of a hand holding a torch shining a coloured light on to a wall covered with layers of coloured chalk made from palimpsests of writing, with a panel of text that reads 'Emma Bolland: The Public Dream, 21–23 November 2025. Unveiled during Light Up Wakefield, Bolland transforms the Gallery into a poetic installation of drawing, light, and text. Developed through a live working residency, the work explores archives, dreams, and speculative futures, offering audiences the chance to step into a space where imagination takes form.
October 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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I'm going to be repping @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social along with coeditor @rachelartsmith.bsky.social at @smallpublishers.bsky.social this Friday and Saturday. Come say hello and check out the verdant loveliness of our Series 4 pamphlets.
A flier for Small publishers fair this Friday and Saturday 24 and 25 october at Conway Hall in London. Two open laptops and two glasses of orange juice on a table in a cafe/bar in Sheffield.
October 22, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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💚 heart co-editing intergraphia with @rachelartsmith.bsky.social. We'll be at Conway Hall in the heart of Bloomsbury for this year's amazing @smallpublishers.bsky.social on the 24 & 25 October. Come say hello!
October 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Thank you @thehalt.bsky.social and to everyone who contributed and enjoyed the glow of the Aperol spritz at the closing event.
July 15, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Chuffed to have two installations in the exhibition Checked Out, curated by Thomas Griffiths in #Sheffield. I'm reading a related script in progress as part of the events programme on the 12th. Free, all welcome! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/checked-ou...
A large gallery showing an installation of hapazardly piled painted boxes and lighting gels in oranges, browns, and blacks. A photograph showing a large exhibition space shot from above. An installation of boxes and cut circles in pastel colours spreads along the floor as a visitor walks around it.
July 4, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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The closing event 🥂 for my residency at Yorkshire Artspace Exchange Place studios in #Sheffield is tomorrow, Friday 23, 5 to 7 pm. All welcome.
May 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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The closing event 🥂 for my residency at Yorkshire Artspace Exchange Place studios in #Sheffield is tomorrow, Friday 23, 5 to 7 pm. All welcome.
May 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Another two days for my Testing Ground residency, today & tomorrow 12 - 4 Exchange Place Studios, Yorkshire Artspace#Sheffield. Come see me! Oh, and come to the closing event 5 - 8 on 23 May.
A blurred photograph of a figure shining a purple light from behind a transparent black lighting gel. On the front of the gel is a light pink circle, popping like a pastel sun.
May 9, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Day 32 of my artist's residency at Yorkshire Artspace. Three more weeks to go. Flying by. Anyway, current state of play ⬇️
A view of a large installation of cardboard boxes flattened and nailed asymmetrically to a wooden structure in a white walled gallery. They are painted with reoccurring motifs of black, Sepia, and yellow circles. A view of a large installation of cardboard boxes stacked and arranged asymmetrically and spreading across a white walled gallery. They are painted with reoccurring motifs pastel coloured circles.
May 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Yes pls do drop in and see the work in progress...
A side view of a wall assemblage made from cardboard and lighting gels in blacks and sepias. A large 'stage set' made from oversized cardboard boxes arranges as if about to fall over painted with large mint coloured discs.
April 25, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Step up, Sheffield. Today, 2pm. #transrightsarehumanrights
Poster showing a raised fist power salute in trans colours of pink, white, and blue. Black text reads 'Emergency Demo, Trans Liberation, 2pm, Saturday 19 April, Sheffield Town Hall.
April 19, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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This brilliant book is currently part of my research table at my Yorkshire ArtSpace Testing Ground artist's residency, informing my experimental stage set and snuggling up to Derek Jarman's Chroma...
Two books on a table. Left, Chroma by Derek Jarman, on the cover a field of yellow ragwort against a bright blue sky. Right, The Blue Hour by Angelina D'Roza, the cover a collage of vertical stripes in blues ranging from indigo to turquoise. A longshore of the same table showing more books. An installation in the style of a stage set made from cardboard boxes with large painted circles in pale mint and pale blue. A closer shot of the stage set showing a circular floor painting of zigzags in browns and turquoise.
April 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Studio. 29.3.2025. Next week, I start my residency at YAS Exchange Place, where for 8 weeks, my studio will be a 70 sq metre glass fronted project space, and I can't wait.
An artist studio with four large paintings with circular 'dazzle camouflage' abstract motifs. A close-up of a painting showing zigzags in earth colours and stripes of bright turquoise.
March 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Some news
"We are delighted to announce that our Testing Ground artist-in-residence for April/May is Emma Bolland. Emma will create an ambitious ‘expanded painting stage set’ that continues their material exploration of a decommissioned asylum in Yorkshire" cont...
artspace.org.uk/articles/tes...
A poster with a background of and assemblage painting using found and archival papers and geometric approaches to stripes and spots in garish colours. A white text reads 'Testing Ground: Emma Bolland'. A view of an artist's studio showing four large paintings that use optical effects in circular abstract shapes.
March 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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My hood. Too scared to go out earlier & now see what they've left behind. Broken glass everywhere. @swfc.co.uk @sheffieldunitedfc.bsky.social who's going to clean this up? The pictures don't capture the full extent, it's dangerous to walk on... take some f*****g responsibility for your 'fans'.
Streets littered with beer cans and broken glass. Streets littered with beer cans and broken glass. Streets littered with beer cans and broken glass. Streets littered with beer cans and broken glass.
March 16, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Studio. Accidental tank-top sync.
A shot from above of a section of a person wearing a tanktop knitted and greens, yellows, and browns. They aew standing next to an abstract painting that uses the same colours.
March 9, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Come see me & @rachelartsmith.bsky.social with @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social at PAGES Artists Book Fair, w/ books by Karenjit Sandhu, Sascha A. Akhtar, Anthony (Vahni) Capildeo, Akeem Balogun, @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social and more. You'll find us next to the mighty @longbarrowpress.bsky.social .
A concertina artist's book of white, textured paper with rectangles of soft blues great and pinks. The text on it says 'Pages Artists Book Faire, Friday 21 March 11 am - 5pm, Saturday 22 March 11am - 4pm, Leeds Art Gallery Free admission
March 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Very pleased to have been included in this wonderful (and beautifully produced - check them purple endpapers and turquoise tapes!) book, edited by Stephanie Loveless at Rennesslauer Institute and the Center for Deep Listening. #paulineoliveros #deeplistening
A book cover in vibrant yellow and pinks, with turquoise words reading 'A Year of Deep Listening'.
February 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Hello folx! I'm wanting to expand my 'database' / widening my awareness of good, enquiring, critical folx for recommending to other artists. Who would you want / trust to write about your practice? Who would be your dream practice-interrogator / critical-friend? Suggestions via DM, please.
White text on a hot pink background. The text reads 'Who would you want / trust to write about your practice? Who would be your dream critical interrogator? Interested in widening my awareness of good, enquiring, critical folx for recommending to other artists. Suggestions via DM, please.'
February 26, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Woah, quite a night! Thanks to everyone who turned out! Bit tipsy. Home now, and to bed with a nip of Penderyn single malt and a Twin Peaks binge. (Black Lodge = hard edge abstraction).
A view into an art gallery packed with people talking and drinking.
February 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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🧵. My #expandedpainting 'peach brown cream pink (pink pink pink)' is showing as part of A BELL IS A CUP, contemporary painting from Europe & the UK, opening at
BLOC Projects #Sheffield this Tuesday, 18 Feb, open 12-6 daily. The not so 'Private View' (everyone welcome) is on Thursday 20th, 5-8pm...
An assemblage painting made from creased cream paper painted with dark brown circles, on to which is clipped some tracing papers printed with distorted photographic images of flowers in dark brown and peach. The paper clips are brass and the work hangs from a chrome bulldog clip.
February 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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For a while now, I've ve been using Instagram as a studio diary and as an out-of-the-archive journal. I'm going to start doing that here, too. Today's out-of-the-archive is a shot of a solo exhibition of 'projection paintings' at the Leeds Met Gallery in 2003.
A man standing in a darkened Gallery in front of a 20ft high brightly coloured overlapping double project of abstract shapes and foliage.
February 11, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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A triangulation of studio visits with Gary Simmonds and @stuburkeart.bsky.social ...
A picture of a phone taking a picture of some green paint spilt on a desk A picture of a phone taking a picture of an indistinct photograph A picture of a phone taking a picture of a sheet of graph paper
February 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Had a shit day? One in which you realise you are seen as a second-rate object of contempt & ridicule with a future of humuliation & penury is laid out before you? I recommend a RinQuinQuintini. Vodka Martini with a slug of RinQuinQuin, the total fucking queen of dry peach vermouth aperitifs.
January 13, 2025 at 7:33 PM