Emma Glinski was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1995 but spent her formative years in Toronto, Canada, until she moved to Mallorca, Spain, at the age of 8.
In 2017, she completed her bachelors degree in Fine Art at the University of the Arts (UAL) in London.
In 2021, she completed a Postgraduate degree in Art Therapy at Metafora, Barcelona.
She now lives and works in London.
Repetition and ritual have always been at the core of my practice and too have been relevant to my enquiries of time. Ritual for me is a machine for the destruction of time; it is conscious and knocks down the natural, unconscious flow of time. Heavy layering, materiality and repetitive gestures in my work mark the passage of time. Time is made physical because what we see as growth in the paintings is the cumulative effect of individual events or individual marks over time.
Whilst I work, it is almost as if I am asking my painting questions and having conversations with colour, form and movement. When my painting no longer responds to me, I move onto the next painting - the next question.
