CV for Emma Plover

Through creating digital, accessible artwork, I highlight the often overlooked, provoke dialogue, and inspire personal and social change. I pioneer for support for people living with mental health disabilities and those who define as neurodiverse, and am currently supported by DASH Arts.

Alongside my artistic practice, I am also highly IT literate with proficiencies in Adobe’s Premier Pro, Photoshop packages, as well as Microsoft Office.

Education

2019 Interactive Arts Ba (Hons), Manchester Metropolitan University

2014 Foundation Diploma Art and Design – Merit, Shrewsbury School of Art & Design

Exhibitions

2022 Bodies of Nature, West Midlands Open, New Walsall Art Gallery

2022 Bodies of Nature screening and Q&A for Borderlines Film Festival

2021 As Water, collaborative film with Sabrina Fuller for ‘Individual Contribution’, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester

2021 (Re)wilding screening and Q&A for Out & Proud Wirksworth & District

Stories of the Land, Quartz, prints, zines and audio for Museum of English Rural Life

2020 (Re)Wilding, for ‘Invisible Art Network Showcase’, (launched digitally due to Covid-19), Hereford

2019 Subjective Utopias, Projection, installation and collages for ‘Everything Starts From Something’, Manchester

2018 The Moon, Tarot card digital illustration for ‘RUG: An exhibition of artwork by queer women and non-binary artists’, Foundation, Manchester

To Prosper, video for ‘Neo Screen Festival’, Bruntwood, Manchester

But still did not beget gender, sculpture for ‘It May Be…’, Link Gallery, Manchester

What does my Queer Future Hold?, video for ‘Get It Done Presents: An Exhibition’,   Goodstock, Manchester

Born of the Soil, video for ‘Theory In/As Practice’, Cass Art, Manchester

2017 Journey Home, video for ‘Interactive Arts Exhibition, Link Gallery, Manchester

Awards, Residencies and Commissions

2022 Bodies of Nature commission from Disability Arts Online

Soundscape commission for Meadow Arts, Avon Meadows

2021 Recipient of Art Council England award for Developing Your Creative Practice

2020 Discussion panellist for BFI, London Film Festival ‘Queer and Pleasant Land'

2020 Junior Digital Artist in Residence for Invisible Art Network, Rural Media

2018 Digital Media Assistant for Digital Media Bar in Manchester School of Art

2018 Commissioned by City of Trees as a part of ‘All Our Trees’, Manchester

2018 Received ‘Outstanding Contribution to Equality, Diversity & Inclusivity Award’ from

MMU Arts & Humanities Faculty Student Awards

Publications

2021 Contributor to independent zine Container

2021 This is From the Middle of Nowhere article, interviewed for British Vogue

2018 Queer Poets Write About Nature for Cutlines Press

2018 Contributor to independent zine Aliens of the Art World

Referees

Rich Matthews, RichM@ruralmedia.co.uk

Mike Layward, mike@dasharts.org

Contact

emmaplover@outlook.com

07890047633

https://sites.google.com/view/emmaplover/emma-plover-artist