Emma Roche

Emma Roche (b. 1983, Dublin, Ireland) is a painter whose works are driven by everyday disruptions such as waged work and parenting responsibilities. The paintings are part of a long process, which starts with creating long lines of acrylic paint extruded through a syringe and laid out to dry. Once the paint has dried, it is used as if it is wool or thread and the strands are knitted together, with knitting needles, to make the final painting. Preliminary drawings on graph paper are used as patterns/craft charts to work from - each square represents a stitch to build the image. The layered process corresponds to a humdrum of daily repetitiveness and physically records and stores time.