Blue Urban Grid #1 Collage

Emerging artist Emmellee Rose combines many styles from photography and print making to creative use of paper and fabric to produce art showing humanity’s impact on the earth. She studied graphic design at the Art Institute in San Fransisco and is now focusing on her art practice. 

Emmellee’s current work features two distinct styles. Photographs she has taken around the Otago Peninsula have been transferred by hand to canvas which in the process creates imperfections but also an otherworldly feel.

 Emmellee’s Urban Series is both spontaneous and practiced, methodical, but not perfect. Imperfection is what makes us human, hence the work is cut by hand. Intricate patterns demonstrate the interconnectedness between ourselves and the urban environment.

 She says “my goal is to inspire those who see my work to look more carefully at the world around them and to discover beauty in unusual, unexpected places.”