Emma J Davis (she/her) is an artist and spatial designer interested in the conditions of inhabitation, the spaces between things, and the lives unfolding within and beyond human perception. Her work attends to the relationships between bodies, materials and environments, exploring how space comes into being, is experienced and continually transformed. Moving between drawing, painting, photography, moving image and installation, she works through acts of observation, translation and spatial experimentation.
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- Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)
- Melbourne, Australia
- Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours)
- Expected 2028
- Monash University
- Melbourne, Australia
- Bachelor of Fine Art, Painting (First Class Honours)
- 2007
- Selected Works
- Casa Giglio
- Cammarata (AG), Italy
- 2026-2027
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Casa Giglio Monograph
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Digital research journal
- 2026-ongoing
- Cammarata Historic Centre Regeneration
- Cammarata (AG), Italy
- 2026-ongoing
- Led by Streetto
- Life in Ruins?
Cammarata (AG), Italy - Upcoming
- A Long Walk
- An eight-month, ~15,000-metre walk from Cammarata to Santiago
- Upcoming
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Inventory of the In-between
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Digital interior journey and research journal
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https://456117.cargo.site/
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2025
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The Field Archive
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Draw Lab, RMIT University
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Melbourne, Australia
- 2025
- Sensory Experiments
- NGV Melbourne Design Week
- Mission to Seafarers Victoria and Norla Dome
- Melbourne, Australia
- 2019
- Event guide
- Workbook/19.10.2007
- Digital artwork, online generative drawing
- 2007
- Take,
- Digital artwork, archived in Rhizome ArtBase, Rhizome
- 2007
- Nine Beginnings
- Digital artwork at http://www.ninebeginnings.org
- 2007
- Previous Owner: Unknown
- Blindside
- Melbourne, Australia
- November 8-24, 2007
- The online archive was published at www.previousowner.blogspot.com
- He wrote re:beautiful / Letters from a Really Tacky Dating Website
- Victoria Park Gallery
- Melbourne, Australia
- 2007
- Hanoi Boys
- Runt Space, Monash University
- Melbourne, Australia
- 2007
Group Exhibitions
- Self
- Driven By, curated by StreetTo
- Via Roma, Cammarata, Sicily
- December 23-28, January 5, 2022
- Take,
- Debut IV, cur. Dr Marion Piper
- Blindside
- Melbourne, Australia
- 31 January-16 February, 2008
- Accompanied by a series of keywords printed on takeaway-style paper sheets.
- Take,
- Atrium Gallery, Monash University
- Melbourne, Australia
- October 25-28, 2007
- Accompanied by a series of keywords printed on ‘take-home’ paper sheets.
- I’m Not Looking Forward to the Future Very Much
- Runt Space, Monash University
- Melbourne, Australia
- 2007
- Found Digital Photographs
- Centre for Contemporary Photography
- Fitzroy, Melbourne
- 25 May-7 July, 2007
- Artist Books and Writings
Portals
- A speculative interior
- Edition 1/1
- 2025
- Here---There
- A meditation on spatial awareness
- Edition 1/1
- 2025
- He wrote re: beautiful Letters from a Really Tacky Dating Website
Online digital file download
Via http://www.victoriaparkgallery.com - 2007
- Publications
PAD Journal, no. 30, vol. 19
- ‘Multisensory Ecological Attunement: Engaging with the More-than-Human Through Design and Pedagogy.’
- Written and edited by Hannah Moriarty, Lucia Ratti and Alastair Reed
- June 2026
- To the Left and Back Some
- Blindside
- Published by Blindside
- 2014
- Ode to Istanbul
- Open Field Magazine Issue One
- Edited and published by Kirsten Alexander
- March 2011
- Night Interior [Working Title]
- Night as Commons and the Dark Side of Light
- Hypha_etc, Vármező / Câmpu Cetății, Romania
- October 1-November 11, 2026
- Funded by the European Union. Implemented by the Goethe-Institut.
Current/Proposed Research
- Darkness as Spatial Research: Night, Embodiment and Ecological Relations
- 2026–ongoing
- Thresholds: Houses, memory and possible futures
- https://thresholds.emmajdavis.com
- Cammarata (AG), Italy
- 2026-ongoing
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Office for Spatial Research (O.S.R)
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A room for spatial research, publishing, writing, art, design and making within the historic centre
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Cammarata (AG), Sicily, Italy
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2027-ongoing
- Amphitheatre as Public Interior: Site-Responsive Spatial Research
- Australia and Italy/France
- Proposed
Awards and Grants
- Joseph Beuys Award for Excellence
- Faculty of Drawing, Monash University
- 2007
- Interdisciplinary Faculty Award
- Monash University
- 2007
Email: Emma@emmajdavis.com
@emmajdavis_
Sicily, Italy
Victoria, Australia 3205