About
’Emma Witter is an artist that dreams with her hands and works to another time, where nothing is disposable and everything she touches might turn to gold. Working intuitively with found and rescued biomass – by-products of London’s restaurant industry or salvaged mud larking on the banks of the river Thames – her sculptures are sensational and beguiling. Witter breathes new life into lost things, and shows us value where we saw only waste. Her process is alchemical, transforming what has been discarded into what must be saved, and her art speaks to our contemporaneous notion of the sublime.’
Nico Kos Earle, 2023
Born in 1989, Emma Witter lives and works in London and is currently enrolled on the Art Humanities MFA at The Royal College of Art. Emma holds a first-class honours degree in Performance Design from Central Saint Martins. On graduating, she won the “Seed Fund Award” from the University of the Arts London – a grant to set up her own studio practice, followed by “Best New Business Award” during UAL Enterprise Week. Numerous exhibitions include solo shows “Tender Resurrection” with Eileen Agar at Bosse & Baum Gallery in London in 2024, “Small Ceremonies” at A.P.A.P. Art Space in Seoul in 2023, and “The Moon’s Daughter is a Pearl” at Gallery Fumi in 2025. Emma is a former studio resident at Sarabande, the Lee Alexander McQueen Foundation, Xenia Creative Retreat in Hampshire and Selfridges in London.
