CONTACT:
Email: mcnallyelm@gmail.com
Emma McNally has lived and worked for many years by the River Thames, London - currently in her studio at Woolwich Dockyard just beyond the Thames barrier.
Her relationship with the river is central to her work.
McNally studied Philosophy and Literature before continuing her thinking visually through drawing.
Her practice is an ongoing exploration of complexity and entanglement across scales, spaces, times. Her drawings have been utilised across categories where new modes of thinking are evolving (including ecology, physics, philosophy, music, politics, urbanism, mathematics, cartography, architecture, choreography, networks and complexity.)
She has shown internationally, including the Hayward (London), Drawing Room (London) Museum of Fine Art Houston, Biennale of Sydney, MONA, Drawing Now (Paris). Her work is held in collections which include MFAH, MONA and the Ashmolean.
McNally's work has included in the latest edition of Phaidon's Vitamin series: Vitamin D3: Today's Best in Contemporary Drawing (2021)
‘Imagine that the history of the world dates from the day when there was an encounter of two atoms, where two vortices, two chemical dances combine.’
Paul Cézanne to Joachim Gasquet
Images: National Geographic (1978): “Tracks made by atomic particles from a particle accelerator, a device that speeds up the particles. The eye can’t see protons, electrons, and other subatomic particles, but a camera records their frothy wakes in a chamber of liquefied neon and hydrogen at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. Physicists study the tracks to learn about the characteristics of the particles that produced them."