EMILY KAAR

Born Katoomba, September 1992

Currently resides in Bullaburra, Blue Mountains

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Growing up with a mother that was a graphic designer and a father who was a keen drawer who were involved in the arts Emily became interested in art from a young age. Growing up in the natural scape of the Blue Mountains influenced her keen interest in creating art to promote awareness of environmental issues like invasive weed spread; she continues to work in this area from her home studio in Bullaburra.

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In 2015 she completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at UNSW's College of Art and design, and is currently completing her Honours in Fine Arts before undertaking her Masters in 2017. Emily works primarily in detailed pencil drawings, sculptural works and large outdoor installation pieces.  She majored in SPI (sculpture, performance and installation), and works in primarily in the medium of sculptural carving; specifically plaster, Hebel and sandstone but is also strongly influenced by found and natural materials. Emily works in response to personal life experiences and is heavily influenced changes in nature, demonstrating change and growth, in particular growing invasive rhizomatic plant root systems and how they may be symbolic of humanities ubiquitous growth. She is inspired by tensions between the botanical and man made world, with a strong interest in the intertwined fate of damaged botanical ecologies and humanity.

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