I Am Trying
To Remember
Works by Emma Sproat
PV: 26th February 6-8PM
Exhibition open:
27th - 1st March 12-5PM Daily
27th - 1st March 12-5PM Daily
Her practice challenges the historical constraints imposed upon sacred art while honouring the power of primitive forms and raw processes. Grounded in feminist ideology and personal reflection, Emma’s work interrogates both external social structures and internal states of being. As a woman navigating an increasingly complex and often hostile world, her practice operates as a form of resistance and reclamation.
Working intuitively and with immediacy, she approaches making as a stream of consciousness shaped by urgency and emotional truth. Each piece becomes both a personal exorcism and a public offering, inviting viewers into a shared space of vulnerability and strength. Her intention extends beyond communicating lived experience; she seeks to open a dialogue that resonates across both present and ancestral lineages.
Emma treats each artwork as a sacred object — devotional in essence yet liberated from patriarchal definitions of sacrality and divinity. Through mark-making, texture, sculptural form, and the integration of digital tools, she critiques and reconfigures what it means to be sacred, repositioning the feminine at its centre.
'I am trying to remember', emerges from the enduring wound left by the dismantling of the Sacred Goddess — a figure revered for millennia before her systematic erasure under patriarchal religions and male-dominated ideologies The work stands as a visceral and emotional response to that deliberate elimination, transformed into sacred objects freed from patriarchal ideologies, a remembrance of ancestral memory severed through generations. Rising from matriarchal ashes, these pieces function as acts of defiance — testaments to resistance, remembrance, and reclamation.
