Emma Troy is a multi-media artist whose current work explores the dialectic between personal, domestic space and the scientific study of our surroundings. Emma uses the traditional skills of collage and sewing, often combined with digitally manipulated photography, text, video, installation and live art events.
Her current work, Pandemonium (2008/9), is a collection of framed butterflies collaged from recycled magazines, which, from a distance, look like real insect specimens but close up the method and materials used in the making are revealed.
A new work, The Science Samplers (2009), will combine needlepoint with scientific equations.
Emma has exhibited her work widely around the UK and Europe. Her 1998 video piece Swelling was shown on Channel 4 and in the BBC British Short Film Festival. Swelling was performed live at the National Gallery, Edinburgh and at many other galleries and events around the UK. In 2000, Emma was awarded the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art by Franklin Furnace in New York.