Emilie Syme-Lamont is a multimedia artist currently based out of Melbourne, whose practice spans painting, drawing, ceramics, and more recently, sound, silicone, tattooing, and bookmaking. Borrowing tropes from literary and cinematic Gothic traditions, her evocative paintings and installations often feature haunted houses, ghost stories, the dual self, and psychologically charged spaces. Archival materials such as old photos, films, magazines, myths, and icons are used, evoked, and transformed in her work to interrogate the nature of memory and the impact of the images that saturate our cultural psyche. A graduate of Sydney’s National Art School, Sydney, Syme-Lamont holds a Bachelor of Fine Art in Painting and a Master of Fine Art in Drawing. She has held solo exhibitions at .M Contemporary, Sydney, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane, PINCE projects, Budapest, and her work is held in private collections in Australia and abroad.
Featured Image:Emilie Syme-Lamont, 42 Hail Mary’s (sorry), 2017. Oil on panel, 62 x 85cm. Courtesy: the artist.