Emma Hislop

Hislop explores ecological storytelling, playing with time/space shift technologies, archaeology and divination. She classifies her work as semi-fiction. She explores interests in material processes and histories, science and science fiction. Doing so using an itching ontology that is expressed through world building and object populated installation to challenge the ideas of archive and preservation. Her work has been awarded by the Sustainability in Action Group, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Royal Scottish Academy and regulary expands her field of vision through unique residency programmes. She was the inaugural AiR for the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, helping to shape the programme, endeavouring to carry and embody a circular approach in her own work. She has worked with British Society of Scientific Glassblowers, GENERATOR projects, Central Saint Martins and Creative Carbon Scotland. Edinburgh, Scotland