Emile Shemilt

Born: 1980

Education: 1998-1999 Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design
University of Dundee
1999-2002 Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art
University of Oxford
BFA
2003-2004 Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design
University of Dundee
MSc

Exhibitions: July 2002 IV International Digital Art Colloquium and Exhibition,
Havana, Cuba
Dec 2002 Unsceneart.com, Online Exhibition

the work

In my work I often use images of human form combined with digital manipulation to give a sense of nostalgia to photographic images with the body used as a subject matter.

In my recent work, the body pictured is my own although the intent of the work is not personal. The repeated image allows for paradoxes all of which relate to notions of fantastical realities. Reflected in today’s “click and drag” society, physical contact as the expression of an emotional state of mind, is something which is diminishing. The images have their own qualities depending on how they are interpreted.

I have used digitally manipulated sections of ‘spilt light’ from a photographic film with the intention of giving an impression of corrosion to the image, an appearance of fantastical light – something ethereal and not physically malleable – something that can only exist in a photograph but appears to have a physical presence.

 

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