Emily Moore
b. 1984, Aberdeen, Scotland
Lives and works in Edinburgh, Scotland
Edinburgh-based artist Emily Moore creates arresting landscape paintings using an amalgamation of personal source images - usually photographs taken to record her own travels and experiences. Each body of work is a documentation of those experiences, the creative process allowing Moore to recall each place and combine them to create new, anonymous landscapes. In particular Moore is drawn to the patterns and forms of mountainous environments and the contrasting, geometric shapes and lines of the man-made structures which inhabit them. Her paintings explore the tension between these two conflicting themes, looking to strike a balance within the final composition. The physical act of creating a piece, the surface and materials, has always been an important part of Moore's practice. She works directly onto wooden birch panels, constructing the image in individual detailed layers, whilst retaining elements of the natural wood beneath.
Emily Moore graduated with a first class degree from Edinburgh College of Art in 2013. In 2012 she was awarded the Royal Scottish Academy Keith Prize and during her final year was selected for the Saatchi New Sensations Long-list. Since graduating Moore has been shortlisted for many high profile art awards including the Griffin Art Prize, the Rise Art Prize and the Zealous Emerge Art Awards. Moore has exhibited extensively throughout the UK including regularly exhibiting at the annual Royal Scottish Academy open exhibitions, where in 2016 she won the Royal Scottish Academy Guthrie Award. This year Moore was selected for the Jackson's Open Painting Prize Long-list and has been shortlisted for the Biscuit Factory's Open Contemporary Young Artist Award. Moore's work is held in many private collections around the world and she continues to exhibit her work internationally.
Education
2013 Edinburgh College of Art BA (Hons) First Class
2012 Massachusetts College of Art and Design, International Exchange Programme
Awards
2020 Shortlist, The Biscuit Factory, Open Contemporary Young Artist Award
2019 Shortlist, The Biscuit Factory, Open Contemporary Young Artist Award
2019 Longlist, Jackson's Open Paintng Prize
2018 Zealous Emerge Art Prize Finalist
2018 Rise Art Painter of the Year Award
2018 Greyfriar’s Art Shop Prize, Scottish Society of Artists & Visual Arts Scotland Open, Edinburgh
2017 Mefan Gallery Commendation
2016 Detail Framing Studio Prize, Society of Scottish Artists, Edinburgh
2016 Royal Scottish Academy Guthrie Award
2013 The Griffin Art Prize People’s Choice Award
2013 The Griffin Art Prize Liquitex sponsorship
2013 Shortlist the Griffin Art Prize 2013, The Griffin Gallery, London
2013 Shortlist Creative Futures Residencies, The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada
2013 Longlist New Sensations UK 2013, Saatchi Gallery, London
2013 Shortlist Many Graduate Residency Programme 2013/14 Glasgow
2013 Artspace2let prize, Edinburgh
2013 Longlist Woon Foundation Painting and Sculpture Art Prize 2013, Newcastle
2012 Royal Scottish Academy Keith Prize
Collections
NHS Lothian
British Airways
Selected Exhibitions
2020 Winter Exhibition, &Gallery, Edinburgh
2020 FLOW, Visual Arts Scotland (Online)
2020 Tides Changing, Society of Scottish Artists (Online)
2020 Coming Home, Aberdeen Artists Society, Aberdeen Art Gallery (Online)
2020 Royal Scottish Academy Annual Open Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh (Online)
2020 The Biscuit Factory Open Contemporary Young Artist Award, The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle
2020 Utopia - What’s Yours? Kirkudbright Galleries
2019 OPEN, Scottish Society of Artists & Visual Arts Scotland, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2019 Utopia - What's Yours? Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries
2019 The Biscuit Factory Open Contemporart Young Artist Award, The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle
2019 Mountainscapes, Maybaum Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2019 Field of Vision, Lisa Norris Gallery, London
2019 Visual Arts Scotland ALIGHT 2019, Royal Scotsh Academy, Edinburgh
2018 Solo Exhibition: SnowLines, the Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh
2018 A contour, a curve - lie of the land, Gallery57, Arudnel, West Sussex
2018 40:40 Vision, Wasps Studios, Kirkcudbright Gallery
2018 Visual Arts Scotland & Summerhall: SATELLITE, Summerhall, Edinburgh
2018 Rise Art Prize Finalist Exhibition, House of Vans, London
2017 Scottish Society of Artists & Visual Arts Scotland: OPEN, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2017 OUTLINES, Urbane Art Gallery, Edinburgh
2017 The Meffan Winter Exhibition, Meffan Gallery, Forfar
2017 Royal Scottish Academy Annual Open Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2017 G.L.U.E. Tent Gallery, Edinburgh
2017 Edinburgh Collage Collective Exhibition, Skylark, Edinburgh
2016 Visual Arts Scotland FLY 2016, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2016 The Society of Scottish Artists Annual Open Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2016 Mixed Exhibition, Newave Gallery, Aberdeen
2016 Edinburgh Macmillan Art Show, Bonhams, Edinburgh
2016 Royal Scottish Academy Annual Open Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2016 Exploiting perspectives; a harmony in chaos, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh
2016 Moving mountains, Lime Tree Gallery, Fort William
2015 Scottish Society of Artists Annual Open Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2015 Royal Scottish Academy Annual Open Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2015 Line, Connection, Sculpture, Causey Contemporary, New York
2015 Milk and Honey? Edinburgh Macmillan Art Show, Bonhams, Edinburgh
2015 Art Paris 2015 with Sarah Myerscough Gallery, Grand Palais, Paris
2015 London Art Fair 2015 with Sarah Myerscough Gallery, Business Design Centre, London
2014 Royal Scottish Academy Annual Open Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2014 Christmas Exhibition 2014, Claremont Gallery, Aberdeen
2014 Flock, Woodend Barn, Aberdeenshire
2014 Hung, Drawn & Quartered, Perth Museum and Gallery
2014 Fabric of the Land, Aberdeen
2014 Native Collective, Junction Arts, Aberdeen
2014 INSPIRED!, Bonhams, Edinburgh
2014 Aberdeen Artists Annual Exhibition, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen
2014 GLASSHOUSE Smart Consultants, Aberdeen
2014 Salony: Embassy Members’ Show 2014, Embassy, Edinburgh
2013 Royal Scottish Academy Annual Open Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2013 Griffin Art Prize 2013: Shortlist Exhibition, Griffin Gallery, London
>High House Gallery, Oxon
>White Moose Gallery, Devon
2013 Graduate Selection, Hula, Edinburgh
2013 Black Cube Collective Annual Show 2013, Whitespace, Edinburgh
2013 London Art Book Fair, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2013 Fabric of the Land, Geology and Petroleum Department, University of Aberdeen
>Our Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh
2013 THIS LAND, The Travelling Gallery, Scotland
2013 Artspace2let Exhibition, Edinburgh
2013 Best of the Degree Show 2013, Six Foot Gallery, Glasgow
6x4”, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee
2013 Scottish Society of Artist’s Annual Open Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2013 Defcon Salon 1: Embassy Members’ Show 2013, Embassy, Edinburgh
2013 TOMS Art of Giving Tour, Whitespace, Edinburgh
2012 Royal Scottish Academy Annual Open Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy,Edinburgh
2012 Middle Land Responses to drawing: Royal College of Art, Departure Foundation, Birmingham
2012 London Art Book Fair, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2012 Massart All School Show, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA