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
emikokoart@gmail.com
Dr Emiko Karlex Artemis
www.emikoartemis.art www.emikotext.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
Diploma of Community Services work TAFE NSW 2016
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
Practicing Multidisciplinary Contemporary Visual Artist
Advocacy, Lived Experience and Advisory work selection:
Past Peer Assessor for Creative Australia
Current Lived Experience peer worker at The Urgent Mental Health Care Center, Neami National, Adelaide SA
Current member of the project group for the creation of a National Archive of Disability in the Arts
Current member of Mental Health Australia Lived Experience group on the National Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Strategy
Current member of the National Mental Health Workforce Sector Advisory Group
Current member of Lived Experience Australia’s (LEA) Representative Panel
Lived Experience Advisor to nationally based NGO Emerging Minds
2024: Member of steering committee for disability access and inclusion Victor Harbor council
Board Member Access2Art 2023
Performance Work
2024: “Is Anyone Home” Victor Harbor SA supported by the City of Victor Harbor Council
2024:, “ Earth call, a Coronach in 3 parts” Hillscene Live 2024 Melbourne Vic
2024: “ Slow Private” Neoterica in Adelaide Festival Independent artist-led by Ray Harris
2024: “Earth Elegy” Adelaide SA
2024: “The Future Reader” Burrunja Arts Center Melbourne, Victoria
2023: “ Infinite Balance” performance for film
2023: “Laughing Woman” performance for film ,part of Master of Design final presentation
2022: “The Holding” durational performance, Dandenong, Victoria, part of HillScene Festival
2021: “Wedded to Words” Performance, Pinky Flat, Adelaide Parklands
Selected Exhibitions Presentations Solo (selection)
2024: “The object of Labour, the Place of Redemption” Mildura Arts Center NSW
2023: Boundless Abundance Arts and Health The Royal Adeliade Hospital
2022: Colour and Code Frankston Arts Centre, Victoria
2022:Midsumma: A Safe ( R ) Space Franklin Street Frames, January-March Melbourne Vic
2022: 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
2021: Walking Through Worlds: Re-gendering Space Saubier House Port Noarlunga (artist in residence exhibition) supported by the City pf Onkaparinga
2020: Womyn and Womb Coral Street Art Space, Victor Harbor SA
2020: Conceal and Dissemble, for Feast Festival. Annex Café exhibition space. Glenelg
2020: 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
2018: Enter the Crystal Palace- Saubier House, Noarlunga SA
Public Art
2023: Herding Caterpillars project for Nature Festival Adeliade, The MOD, Adeliade, Public Artwork Sculpture
2017: “ Cherish the Lost series , Seaford Railway station, South Australia (DPTI Rail Care Art Grants)
2013: Viva In The Gong, Wall Projection
Selected Recent Exhibitions Group
2024/5: “Glister in the Sun” The Mill, Adelaide
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) supported by the Malcom and Margaret Carbins Trust
2022- Whole Self Incinerator Gallery, Victoria
The midsumma Australia post art prize, Victoria
2021 Waverly Woollahra Printmaking Prize Alternative Printmaking ( first prize)
2013/2012 Artist – Sydney Fringe Festival (PACT) performing art installation and performance,
“the Epiphany Booth” Projection wall Wollongong City ViVa La Gong
Residencies
2024: Selected to attend funded 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
Community based work
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\2013: Wollongong City Council, working with Wollongong Youth Centre to create series of murals for semipermanent display in Crown Street, Wollongong CBD
2012\2013: Artist for the 2528 Project Healthy Cities by Design, Wollongong NSW
2012\2013: Artist for the Queen Street Servo Project, Warilla NSW
Speaking selection:
2024: Presentation Performance of the Real conference, The University of Otago, New Zealand (financially supported through Country Arts SA)
2023: Presentation Queer (Theory) Reading Group: Queer Voice and Absence Conference Macquarie University, NSW
2023: Better Together, the Equality Project Adeliade, SA, presenter, “Queering the World”
2021: Energetical symposium Platform arts Geelong. Presenter- the Tyranny of Distance
2019: Arts Access Australia Meeting Place Canberra- Travel Grant recipient and panellist at symposium
Media selection:
Finissage and Performances — Neoteric
The Object of Labour, the Place of Redemption – Print Council of Australia
Regional Arts Australia | Emiko Artemis
Regional Arts Australia | Emiko Artemis on the creative brain,… aerie Gallery Takeover ~ Archiving the Future - Burrinja Exhibitions hsL 2024 REVELance - HILLSCENELIVE
Events: Revelance | hsL 2024 — Triple R 102.7FM, Melbourne Independent Radio
Boundless Abundance - THRF Group - Creative Health
Incinerator Gallery - WHOLE SELF: Midsumma 2022
Midsumma: A Safe(R) Space - Victoria’s Big Build
Interview: Emiko Artemis | Independence Australia
Illuminating Perspectives - SALA Festival 2024
Emiko Artemis | Artist Overview | MutualArt
Interview: Emiko Artemis | Independence Australia
nb: prior to 2017 my name was Emily Windon