Scottish artist Emma Rankin holds an MFA in Art, Science & Visual Thinking from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design in Dundee as well as an MA in Printmaking from LUCA School of Art in Belgium. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Textile & Surface Design from Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen with a focus on sculptural printmaking in 2014.

Her research is centred around the visibility of thresholds and the interiority of landscape, with a particular interest in how geological sites are experienced, interpreted through time and recounted through individual lived experience. Weaving her way through mineral narratives and land and seascape ecologies, Emma’s multidisciplinary approach connects photography and found objects as mementos left over time and manifests across an accumulation of layers and strata, completed by installation, artists books and printmaking. Her creative practice is rooted in her background in mysticism and folklore, through visual narratives that cast off the written word, and through the relation to people who have wandered before.

Emma has exhibited internationally in galleries and institutions and is currently a consulting artist for the PAINSTORM consortium, an international group of medical professionals and patient partners focusing on research into neuropathic pain. Currently based in Glasgow, Emma has been invited to participate in residency programmes in Europe and is the current Artist in Residence for the Botanic Gardens in Dundee.