Emma Langridge

"For the past few days, in fact, I have begun to feel that the story I am trying to tell is somehow incompatible with language, that the degree to which it resists language is an exact measure of how closely I have come to saying something important, and that when the moment arrives for me to say the one truly important thing (assuming it exists). I will not be able to say it."
-Paul Auster The Invention of Solitude

"To follow the complex course of descent is to identify the accidents, the errors, the false appraisals, and the faulty calculations that gave birth to those things that continue to exist… it is to discover that truth or being do not lie at the heart of what we are, but the exteriority of accidents."
-Michel Foucault

"Change in media should never be mistaken for a change in ideas.
-Sol Le Witt

"Discipline in reducing everything to a few essential steps is the highest form of professional sensibility."
-Paul Klee

"It's really not such bad work" Murks continued. "At least it's all there in front of you. You put down a stone, and something happens. You put down another stone, and something more happens."
-Paul Auster The Music of Chance

"Distance is like the future."
-Goethe The Sorrows of Young Werther

Biography

• Born 1974 Cheltenham, England
• Moved to Perth, 1980, Melbourne, 2001

Education

• Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Western Australia, 1993-96

Solo Exhibitions

• 2005 ‘Unfinished Journey’, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne
• 2004 Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne
• 2004 ‘Recent Paintings’, Span Galleries
• 2001 ‘New Paintings’, Seventh Gallery
• 1998 ‘Paintings’, Goddard de Fiddes Contemporary Art
• Group Exhibitions - Selected
• 2003 ‘Wall Candy’, Conical, Melbourne
• 2002 ‘Personal + Particular’, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, W.A
• 2002 ‘A Collection Survey’, Holmes a Court Gallery
• 2002 ‘Material / Colour’, Goddard de Fiddes Contemporary Art
• 2002 ‘Exploration 3’, Flinders Lane Gallery
• 2000 ‘Gdef @ Katsui’, Goddard de Fiddes & Katsui Studio
• 2000 ‘PAINT!’, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art
• 1999 ‘West Coast Geometric Abstraction’, Goddard de Fiddes
• 1999 ‘A View from the Sea’, Santo Tomas University (Manila) & Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
• 1997 ‘Hatched: National Graduate Show’, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art
• 1997 ‘A Further Possibility’, Goddard de Fiddes Contemporary Art
• 1997 ‘Choice (light)’, Jacksue Gallery, Perth
• 1997 ‘Athens Exhibition (architecture)’, Athens Cultural Centre
• 1993-96 various UWA School of Art and Architecture exhibitions
• 1993 ‘Year 12 Perspectives’, Art Gallery of Western Australia

Competitions

• 2004 Metro 5 Art prize (honourable mention)
• 2004 Linden’s Postcard Competition
• 2003 Metro 5 Art prize (finalist)

Commissions

• Jacksue Gallery façade (destroyed)

Selected Writings

• Bolt, Cathy, and Barrett-Lennard, John, ‘Personal Passions’, Australian Financial Review, 21.11.02
• McGrath, Judith, ‘Splatters of Time’,X-Press Magazine, issue 701, 20.07.00
• Stringer, John, ’PAINT!’, catalogue essay, jul/aug ’00
• Carroll, Helen, ‘The City of Dreams: New Art in Perth’
• Westerly, summer ’98
• Dean, Bec, ‘Labyrinth’, Mu Magazine, issue 2, ’98
• Bromfield, David, ‘On Show’, The West Australian 08.07.00, 03.07.99, 11.04.98, 23.08.97

Collections

• Holmes a Court,
• Artbank,
• Bankwest,
• private collections