Emma McNally

London based artist Emma Mcnally makes abstract graphite drawings that look like city grids and star maps. But this description doesn’t come close to doing them justice. Usually large in scale, the drawings emit a wizened, emotive quality. Somehow, each miniscule mark of graphite takes on endless personality. In the end, the works are just as effective as maps of life’s random chaos as they are as any type of reference to formal cartography.

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Emma McNally - Artist Insight // MIRRORCITY

From her studio, situated at the West India dock on the banks of the river Thames, exhibition artist Emma McNally discusses her work in MIRRORCITY.

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Emma McNally talks about her drawings in "MIRRORCITY" at the Hayward Gallery

I think of these drawings as fugitive, heterogeneous gray areas. They are the turbulence between noise and signal. They are a space of difference and deferral, a weather system of graphite...

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