Emiko Artemis is a visual artist who works across a variety of media. Based in South Australia, Emiko uses costumes and masking to create immersive environments, drawing from theoretical concepts and their own personal experience. These question our place in today’s fast paced world. With an interest in ideas of mysticism, story telling and ritualism, they often use the natural world to create narrations of disorder and unease. Additionally, they are constantly utilising theories of phenomenology and is motivated by the exploration of the liminal space of interior and exterior worlds.
Emiko’s practice is informed by a strong feminist philosophy and in their work, they aim to balance theoretical ideas with a sense of beauty, wonder and emotional engagement from the viewer.
Whilst screen-based mediums are Emiko’s main public practice, they work across medium at all stages of project development and has incorporated drawing, printmaking, installation, sculpture, text and sound into their practice.
Emiko also works with individuals and communities to enact positive transformation and personal empowerment. They are a firm believer that art can be created by anyone, and discards the idea that one needs a specific skillset in order to create. Their long art practice history is a testament to this, and they are constantly creating in their own free time.
Emiko currently works from their studio space at Fleurieu Arthouse in Maclaren Vale, South Australia.
EMIKO ARTEMIS
20 Sweetman Ave. Ramong Encounter Bay SA 5211
0467753363 emikokoart@gmail.com
Dr Emiko Karlex Artemis www.emikoartemis.art www.emikotext.com
PhD BA vis arts hon class 1 with university medal the University of Newcastle NSW 2012
Master of Design The University of South Australia 2022
Living and working on the unceded lands of the Ramindjeri people of the Ngarrindjeri Nation
And the Kuarna people
Current studio resident Fleurieu Arthouse Mc Laren Vale SA
Exhibitions Presentations Solo (selection)
2024: Performance, “ Earth call, a Coronach in 3 parts” Hillscene Live 2024 Melbourne Vic
2024: Performance, “ Slow Private” Neoterica in Adelaide Festival Independent artist-led by Ray Harris
2024: “The object of Labour, the Place of Redemption” Mildura Arts Center NSW
2024: Performance, “Earth Elegy” Adelaide SA
2024: Performance, “The Future Reader” Burrunja Arts Center Melbourne, Victoria
2024: Presentation Performance of the Real conference, The University of Otago, New Zealand (financially supported through Country Arts SA)
2023: Boundless Abundance Arts and Health The Royal Adeliade Hospital
2023: Presentation Queer (Theory) Reading Group: Queer Voice and Absence Conference Macquarie University, NSW
2022: Colour and Code Frankston Arts Centre, Victoria
Midsumma: A Safe ( R ) Space Franklin Street Frames, January-March
The Holding durational performance, Dandenong, Victoria, part of HillScene Festival
Herding Caterpillars project for Nature Festival Adeliade, The MOD, Adeliade, Public Artwork Sculpture
City Light, Colour Brights Hutt Street City Library for SALA City Lights, Colour Brights - SALA Festival 2022
2021: Nature Mysticism and feminine Space Collective Haunt, Adelaide SA
Walking Through Worlds: Re-gendering Space Saubier House Port Noarlunga (artist in residence exhibition)
Energetical symposium Platform arts Geelong. Presenter- the Tyranny of Distance
Wedded to Words. Performance, Pinky Flat, Adelaide Parklands
2020: Womyn and Womb Coral Street Art Space, Victor Harbor SA
Conceal and Dissemble, for Feast Festival. Annex Café exhibition space. Glenelg
2019: Meeting Place Canberra- Travel Grant recipient and panellist at symposium
SALA Will You Love Me St Andrews by the Sea, Arts by the Sea , Jetty Rd Glenelg.
2018: Relative to Loss- Prospect Gallery, Nailsworth, Prospect SA
Enter the Crystal Palace- Saubier House, Noarlunga SA
2017: Public art work installed at Seaford Railway station, South Australia (DPTI Rail Care Art Grants)
Selected Exhibitions Group
2024: “ Works on Paper” Staff Only Adelaide SA
2024: “Cornucopia” Fleurieu Arthouse
2023- Mnemonic Disturbance RSASA Gallery, The Institute, North Terrace, Adelaide (artist in residence exhibition)
2022- Whole Self Incinerator Gallery, Victoria
The midsumma Australia post art prize, Victoria
2021 Waverly Woollahra Printmaking Prize ( first prize)
2013/2012 Artist – Sydney Fringe Festival (PACT) performing art installation and performance,
“the Epiphany Booth” Projection wall Wollongong City ViVa La Gong
James Kiwi Watercolour Prize, Wollongong City Gallery NSW
Zephyr’s Mysterion Shellharbour Exhibtion Space Shellharbour NSW
Local Current Wollongong City Gallery Transformations, Nan Tien Temple, Wollongong NSW. Exhibition and talk
WD Project Art Space
Postcards from the Edge Wollongong City Gallery
2011: What things Look Like, Index space, Sydney
NSW Manning Valley Art Prize Manning Valley art show Winner 2d Award Taree Regional Gallery NSW
The Photography Show, Dark Horse Experiment Melbourne
2011: Machinic Desire Hysterical Machines, School of Fine Art Gallery at the University of Newcastle
Community and Residencies
2024: Selected to attend Performance Residency Intensive through Country Arts SA, Port Lincoln SA
2023: Selected to attend under scholarship Performance Intensive Cross Roads Arts Macay QLD
2023: Attendee Regional Arts Australia Symposium Artlands 2023 Canberra ACT
2023: Residency funded through Country Arts SA in Oatlands Tasmania
2022:Drawing and design of stained-glass windows, St Joan of Arc Church centenary project Victor Harbor
2019: Victor Harbor Council My Time Group: Strong Powerful Poster Project
2018: 2017-2018: Artist in residence Fleurieu Mental Health department Men’s Group.
2012: Wollongong City Council, working with Wollongong Youth Centre to create series of murals for semipermanent display
Media selection:
Interview: Emiko Artemis | Independence Australia
Radio Interview ABC Radio Adelaide with Isobel Carmondy for Feast Festival Nov 2020 Regional Arts Australia | Emiko Artemis on the creative brain,…
http://www.paradeofthebuddhas.org/?page_id=2336 http://e-
emily windon | Search Results | Agency of Unrealized Projects (e-flux.com)
2013/ http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/1628264/gallerywollongong-artists-transformmall-construction-zone http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/1924751/final-seasonopens-for- local-artistshowcase/
https://www.informonline.org.au/interview
-emiko-artemis/ 2020 https://www.opendoorsnyc.org/thecollecti on https://artsaccessaustralia.org/artspaces/emikoartemis/
artemis/http://www.pact.net.au/2016/05/previous-years-
nb: prior to 2017 my name was Emily Windon