Emily Alice Mitchell
About
Emily Alice Mitchell (b. 2002) is a multidisciplinary artist born and working in London. Combining moving image, photography, printmaking and sculpture, she works to represent the intersections of identities and liminalities of mixedness.
Mitchell’s practice navigates grief, loss and transgenerational trauma, in dialogue with the in-betweens of mixed Caribbean and Scottish heritage. Exploring an absence resulting from histories of erasure of both sides, she looks to the Atlantic as a vessel that preserves memory and embodies history.
Restoring and manipulating inherited quotidian objects, she collages and combines elements of British and Caribbean culture in an exploration of double consciousness. Approaching the archive with slowness and care, the artist looks to reframe and decentralise colonial narratives in place of underrepresented histories. Opposing linear Western constructs of time and place, Mitchell questions how we might exist in limbo between these entities, subverting existing colonial methods in order to preserve and document the spaces and silences of the inbetween.
Contact: emilyalicemitchell@outlook.com
Instagram: @emilyalicemitch
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