Em Frank is a multidisciplinary artist living and working across Tandanya/Adelaide and Mparntwe/Alice Springs. At its core Frank’s practice is motivated by the use of art as a tool for collaboration and community building. She explores themes of belonging, identity, community and collective care, with a significant focus on material exploration. Her current work draws heavily on the last ten years spent living and working in the remote Central Desert and her personal experiences of connection and loss.
Working in ceramics as her primary medium, Frank’s practice extends across drawing, painting, mixed media and assemblage. She has a bowerbird-like proclivity for collecting discarded and broken materials and an abiding compulsion to tinker and play.
Lately Frank has been exploring the visual and material dialogue between clay and metal, and the use of ancient techniques in pursuit of a contemporary aesthetic