Living and working between Melbourne, Australia and Sicily, Italy.
Education
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)
- Melbourne, Australia
- Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours), ongoing
- Expected 2028/2029
Melbourne, Australia
Bachelor of Fine Art, Painting (First Class Honours)
2007
Spatial/Interior Projects
- Casa Leto
- Cammarata (AG), Italy
- 2028
- Casa Giglio
Cammarata Re-Inhabitation
Cammarata (AG), Italy
2026-ongoing
Led by Streetto
Life in Ruins?
Cammarata (AG), Italy
Proposal
A Sicilian Walk: An ode to Richard Long
Cammini del Sud, Palermo to Agrigento
- Proposal
- Sensory Experiments
- NGV Melbourne Design Week
- Mission to Seafarers Victoria and the Norla Dome
- Melbourne, Australia
- March 16, 2019
- Event guide
WePlay
Medibank
Australian Open
2015
Residencies
Night InteriorNight as Commons and the Dark Side of Light
Câmpu Cetății, Romania
October 1-November 10, 2026
Funded by the European Union. Implemented by the Goethe-Institut.
Current/Proposed Research
- Thresholds: Houses, memory and possible futures
- Cammarata (AG), Italy
- 2026-ongoing
- https://thresholds.emmajdavis.com/
- Amphitheatre as Public Interior: Site-Responsive Spatial Research
- Australia and Italy/France
- 2027
- Upcoming
- A Long Walk
- A ~15,000-metre walk from Cammarata to Santiago
- Proposal
Creative Direction/Strategy
Unstoppable
ABB, Global brand campaign
2023
Delivered by studio DIAZ DAVIS
State of Living
Liveability Victoria International
Event experience strategy and design
2019
Delivered by studio DIAZ DAVIS
Brightwood
Branding and identity project
Sydney, Australia
2018-2020
Mages Ruiz Diaz
Identity project
Melbourne, Australia
2018
Koko Black
Creative Director
Australia
2015-2017
Position held
Aēsop
Visual Merchandiser
Australia
2008-2010
Solo Exhibitions
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
Artist book
He wrote re: beautiful’/ ‘Letters from a Really Tacky Dating Website’Self-published as a downloadable PDF.
Nine Beginnings
Digital artwork
http://www.ninebeginnings.org
2007
Workbook/19.10.2007
Digital artwork, online generative drawing
2007
- Hanoi Boys
- Runt Space, Monash University
- Melbourne, Australia
Group Exhibitions
Self
Driven By, curated by StreetTo
Via Roma, Cammarata, Sicily
December 23-28, January 5, 2022
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 October 2025
A meditation on spatial awareness
Edition 1/1
June 2025
He wrote re: beautiful Letters from a Really Tacky Dating Website
Online digital file download
Via http://www.victoriaparkgallery.com
November, 2007
Awards and Grants
Joseph Beuys Award for ExcellenceFaculty of Drawing, Monash University
2008
Interdisciplinary Faculty Award
Monash University
2008
Publications
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
Email: Emma@emmajdavis.com
@emmajdavis_
Sicily, Italy
Victoria, Australia 3205