Emilie Syme-Lamont b.1990
Emilie Syme-Lamont is a contemporary artist currently based out of Sydney, Australia.
Her body of work includes painting, drawing, ceramics, and more recently, sound, silicone and bookmaking.
Emilie borrows from literary and cinematic Gothic and Horror traditions. She looks to genre tropes such as haunted houses, ghost stories, “the double”, and psychologically charged spaces to inform her painting and installations.
Materials from the past; old photos, films, magazines, and bric-a-brac, are used to draw attention to obscured areas of memory and the psychological impact of culturally recurring images.
Her work expresses moments of intentional ambiguity, strange familiarity, or dreamlike interpretations of reality.
Emilie is a recent MFA in Drawing graduate from The National Art School in Sydney, and holds a BFA in Painting. She has held solo exhibitions at M contemporary in Sydney, Edwina Corlette Gallery in Brisbane and PINCE project in Budapest. Her work belongs in private collections across Australia, USA and Europe, with two works held in National Art School Archives, Sydney.
Education
2009
RMIT, Bachelor of Fine Art (Sculpture)
2013-2016
National Art School, Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting)
2017-2018
National Art School, Master of Fine Art (Drawing)
Awards
2016
AGNSW Robert Le Gay Brereton Drawing Prize (winner)
Exhibitions
Solo
2021
Out, Damned Spot, Budapest
2019
Moving Images, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
2017
Do you remember when TV ended?, M Contemporary, Sydney
Group
2019 At the End of the World, M Contemporary, Sydney
2019 Unearth, Art est., Sydney
2018 Released, National Art School Post Graduate Exhibition, Sydney
2017 Texta, Library Stairwell Gallery, Sydney
2017 YAI, M Contemporary, Sydney
2017 At the End of the World, M Contemporary, Sydney
2016 National Art School Graduation Show
2016 Imitation Green Cordial, Library Stairwell Gallery, Sydney
2016 The Grid, St. Vincents Hospital, Sydney
2016 30 x 30, Galleria7, Sydney
2015 Another Landscape, NAS Hoffspace, Sydney
2013 The Outsider, Muzsi, Budapest, HU
2013 Idle hands, Kau Cafe, Melbourne
2011 Emerging artists, Framers Gallery, Sydney
2009 RMIT group show, RMIT, Melbourne
2009 Site specific installation, Spencer st. Melbourne
Contact Me