Emily Claridge

zine , video , tekenen , sculptuur , schilderen , riso-print , residency , installatie , film , Figuratief , collage , Autobiografisch , Audiovisueel , Archieven

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At the center of my practice is drawing. Fast, emotional and impulsive. My sketchbooks are messy and humorous, and act as a slightly absurd visual diary. Life is bubbling up around me and my practice acts as a way to pin down moments, feelings and stories that I might otherwise forget. I use it to make sense of grief, family dynamics, love, breakups, traveling and the feeling of existing in a female body. Aside from drawing I love to experiment and tell stories through different mediums, such as painting, ceramics, audio, video, metal and wood.

**Avondwinkel** - Oil, pastel on canvas, 80 × 80 cm (2026)

**Forth and back and round and round** - Pastels on paper 236 × 178 cm (2026)

**the noise got louder** - 42x59.4cm, Oil paint, pastels on paper (2026)

**It was time to call it a day** - Oil pastel, gouache, charcoal on paper 59 × 42 cm (2026)

**Done, Dusted and Diagnosed** - Broke up with Ton in 2024. Then he got diagnosed with autism I got diagnosed with ADHD. Where opposites once attracted they became our downfall. 60x70cm Oil on canvas. (2025)

**Food in the sink again?** - Sketching on the streets, angrily thinking about the goop that was in the sink that morning. 42x59.4cm Charcoal, pen, pencil, pastel on paper (2025)

**Double click** - After much continuation, repetition and overwhelming self doubt some things were beginning to finally make sense. 59.4 x 84.1cm Oil pastel and charcoal on paper (2025)

**Putrid Delphini** - Putrid Delphini is an installation that materialized as a site-specific project at Buitenplaats Brienenoord. Drawing inspiration from Rhizomatic (non-linear) philosophy, the project found its roots in the impact of my father's death in 2022 and explored liminality as the space between life and death. Link for the video : youtube.com/watch?v=J8SOn19V9Yk&feature=youtu.be Graduation exhibition Willem de Kooning Academy Ceramic, wood, metal, audio, video (2023)

**Chit chat, bat** - I picked up a bat so we could have a much needed chat. 42.0x59.4cm Charcoal, pen, pencil, pastel on paper (2025)

**Click** - Mr man was in the room and everything seemed to click in to place 252 x 118cm Charcoal and pastel on paper (2025)

**About the rest** - As she sat in front of me, I pondered the empty space that would be. 84.1 x 118.9 cm Charcoal on paper (2025)

**Hydrospic Trunks** - Absorbing knowledge from a wood sculpting traineeship with Maurice Meewisse, I created a wooden installation which was exhibited at the Aanschouw in Rotterdam. Installation box 40 x 67 x 115 cm Wood and clay (2023)

**Clean your dishes!** - Sketching on the streets, my mind was preoccupied with just how skanky my roommates were. 42x59.4cm Charcoal, pen, pencil, pastel on paper (2025)

**Oink Oink** - Struggling from disordered eating, I felt like a pig from munching on too much food and related this to the home, family, and the people that we all came from. (2025)

**Big foot** - Forever wishing she'd have bigger feet than me. 59.4 x 84.1 Charcoal and pastel on paper (2025)

**at home with muse** - Joey arrived and the musing began 59.4 x 84.1 cm Charcoal and pastel on paper (2025)

**Helay** - Kevin first appeared here, the blue guy on the right, he looked me dead in eye. He controls the perception of diet culture in my mind and sometimes keeps me trapped. 60x70cm Pencil, acrylic paint, pastel (2024)

**In the Italian bit** - A trip to the Italian quarter meant I had to eavesdrop on the old boys weekly meet-up. 59.4 x 84.1 Charcoal, oil pastel, graphite, ink, tipex on paper (2025)

**Pick Pick PICKING!** - Uses scabs to symbolize those self destructive habits we know don't serve us but keep falling into. It just feels so good to Pick Pick Pick! 196x226cm Charcoal, pen, wood, ceramic on paper Exhibited in a group exhibition at Oud House for Rotterdam Art week (2025)

**Welkom to the DDC** - Welcome to the Dead Dad Club. An urn to mark my unfortunate entrance into a club I wasn't planning on being part of. The drawings are memories of my Dad, Tracy Leigh Claridge. 40x30cm Ceramic (2023)

**Bubbled Broth** - A pho soup on a travel to Indonesia, slurped down by an ex that stabbed my Capricorn heart. 50x60cm Ink, charcoal, pencil on a board. (2025)

**I think I just birthed myself** - During a year of therapy, I felt a bump growing in my stomach, it was time to give birth to myself. 42x59.4cm ink on paper (2025)

**Torajaland** - In Tana Toraja (Indonesian island) funerals are not seen as an ending, but as a transition to the afterlife. There are some unique ceremonies that take place there and this drawing is a result of researching and being told stories about the island. 60x60cm Pencil, pastel, acrylic paint, on canvas board (2025)

**On the cubit and off we go** - In a crowded cafe in Indonesia I took in my surroundings and translated them into a new world. 29x29cm Riso print (2025)

**Awakening of Heulang** - After hearing a story from a local called Eman Kurdiman I collaborated with artists, musicians, graphic designers, the bakery and ceramicists to make a performance about life's cyclical journey and the afterlife. The performance included symbolic elements such as, a bread bed representing Indonesian slow living, eagle masks, and music crafted from making peanut sauce. The performance was timed to end at Iftar so the audience could break their fast and communally eat the bread with the peanut sauce. Here I bonded with the community and was taught the craft of mask making. Exhibited at JAF, Jatiwangi, during a residency, Ceramic, bread, wooden masks (2023)

Exhibition : A fly On The Wall

Datum: 02-04-2025 t/m 06-07-2025

Locatie: Oud House

In samenwerking met: Rotterdam Art Week , Oud House

‘A Fly on the wall’ was a self organised group exhibition and part time Knutselclub at Old House during Rotterdam Art week. The show featured works by Robin Van Leijsen, Fleur Flipse, Lorena Rode, Juliette Geissler and myself.
My contribution, Pick Pick Picking! was a large drawing that uses scabs to symbolise those self destructive habits we know don't serve us but keep falling into. It just feels so good to Pick Pick PICK!!

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