Artist statement.

​​Emily Tilbrook’s practice aims to examine process, materiality, craft, costume and performance. She uses a variety of materials, mostly textile, to create bizarre and interesting works that challenge textile art as an academy and also raises questions about craft as art. Process is a very important part of Tilbrook’s work, exploring alternative fabric manipulation to realise wearable artworks sculptures and installations. It is very important to the artist that all of her works are open to touch and as the tactility of the mediums are so crucial to the works being made they must be included with the viewing of them as well. Her work is experimental and explores an ongoing conversation with tactical mediums. The radiant pink colour that reoccurs in the work nods to the use of a typically feminine craft of knitting. Concerned with the debates around new sculpture, the artist constructs her work through unorthodox material techniques combined with conventional textile processes. The interaction between materials becomes the essential element of the work.

Womb, 2018.