In this episode I visit Emily Wolfe at Melanie Roger Gallery in Tamaki Makaurau while she was in Aotearoa for the opening of her show ‘Long Distance.’

Emily graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland in 1996, then completed her Master of Fine Arts at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, graduating in 2000.

Emily has exhibited consistently since then, with over twenty solo shows. She has several awards and residencies throughout the United Kingdom and is held in numerous public and private collections including the University of Auckland Art Collection.

Emily is represented by Melanie Roger Gallery in Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau, Page Galleries in Te Whanganui A Tara Wellington and Benjamin Parsons in Oxford in the UK.

There are images of the paintings that we talk about on The Good Oil Emily Wolfe Instagram Post for your reference.

You’ll hear Emily talk about never being sure of a painting is going to work out, the hope that she’ll one day get better as a painter, spending too much time inside, including not being able to bring herself to leave the studio to join Don Binney's outdoor landscape class at Elam, the importance of imperfection in subject matter, the parallels she found in the layers of London clay and time as an archaeologist and layers of paint as a painter… and the joy she’s discovered in dehumidifiers.