Emily Brown is an artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Brown completed a BFA(Hons) / BA majoring in English at the University of Auckland in 2016. She recently completed an MFA at Elam School of Fine Arts, the University of Auckland.

Brown’s artworks in the Emerging Artists exhibition come from her recent series called ‘All In The Same Breath’, which engages with ideas of disassociation, peripheral feelings and desire through the intersection of image and object.

‘My photographs are printed from an A4 Brother toner printer and hand transferred onto cotton-silk, to create tangible image-objects from passing moments. Through the combination of sensual fabrics, mechanical, digital, and DIY analogue printing processes images are distanced from my authorship and embrace material slippages. Rather than creating an explicit narrative ‘All In The Same Breath’ looks at how images can be made and read together to express here-and-not-here feelings and create atmospheric sensations.'

Brown was shortlisted for the Molly Morpeth Canaday Art Award 2025. Recent exhibitions include Future Call, a collaborative exhibition between Elam School of Fine Arts and Victoria College of the Arts, Naarm Melbourne (2024), The Research Lean, a group show at the George Fraser gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, (2024) and Fifteen Signs Before, a solo show at Hunters and Collectors, Pōneke Wellington (2024).