About

Ema Skeldon creates narrative poetic slideshows with her photographs. These are accompanied either by music (she has worked numerous times with the music composer Ross Campbell), or with a narration of words that Ema herself writes. Ema usually photographs herself as the model, using a remote control on a tripod, but her models are also family and friends. There is often a surreal element to her works.

Ema works a lot with masks, which she usually makes herself using a variety of materials. Her obsession with them began while she was studying at Camberwell School of Art in London and she has maintained an interest in them ever since. Masks have been used throughout centuries and cultures. By putting on a mask we can become whoever or whatever we want to be. As the face is the mask to our minds, Ema plays around with the mask showing our mind, which she interprets in a variety of abstract ways.

Ema was born in Thailand and brought up in Hong Kong. For the past sixteen years, she has lived in Scotland, from whose natural landscapes she draws her inspiration and where she does the majority of her photographic work.



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