The artist...
Emma Hack
Diverse Multimedia Artist
Skin Illustrator, Photographer, Sculptor
www.emmahackartist.com
www.emmahack.com.au
Emma won the Renault New Generation Art Award for her Mixed Media images at the Weekend Australian ART Sydney Show on 26th October 2008.
'This was such an achievement for me! It will help me establish gallery representation throughout Australia and hopefully overseas so I can tour my work.'
All new images can be viewed in the collections and sculpture sections of this website.
Currently Showing
- June 26th to July 14th, 2009
Frances Keevil Gallery, New South Wales
Works On Paper
Group exhibition
www.franceskeevilart.com.au
Shops 5&6, Bay Village,
28-34 Cross Street
Double Bay, NSW 2028
ph/fax: 02 93272475
mob: 0411 821550
e: info@franceskeevilart.com.au
Gallery hours
Monday - Friday: 10am - 5pm
Saturday: 10am - 4pm; Sunday: 11am - 4pm
Award winning artist Emma Hack continues to be at the forefront of an art form growing in worldwide popularity. Through dedication and a passion for her craft Emma’s 20-year career has evolved from beginnings as a children’s face painter and qualified hairdresser and make-up artist, to an artist of world acclaim.
March 2001, Emma won the coveted 1st prize at the CIDESCO World Congress Professional World Body Painting Championship in Hong Kong. Emma assisted in the co-ordination and success of this event in Adelaide, Australia the following year.
Abroad works include body painting and designing concepts for the Paspaley Pearls and Tiffany & Co store launches in Dubai, Touring Holland and Belgium with Renown Cabaret Duo Miche en scene, a Playstation 2 commercial in Hong Kong, the launch of the 2005 ski season in Whistler, Canada. Within Australia Emma’s client list is extensive, with clients such as Sydney and Melbourne Fashion Weeks. MAC is a large supporter of Emma’s work, including her in their ‘Deck of Cards’ and ‘Chinese dress ‘events, the only outside artist chosen.
The Adelaide Cabaret Festival utilised Emma’s exhibition skills to feature a collection of cabaret artists painted as their cabaret persona as an exhibition during the 2004 festival. Emma’s portraits of celebrity chef personalities Ian Parmenter, Geoff Jansz and Jason Roberts feature at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra.
In 2005 Emma collaborated with Deborah Paauwe in her ‘Dark Fables’ collection, featuring Emma’s illustration on the faces of the girls featured.
Emma’s Wallpaper 2005, 2007 and 2008 collections feature Florence Broadhurst wallpaper designs mixed with her body illustration. Emma continues to work blending her ‘wallflowers’ with the beautiful designs of Broadhurst. Emma’s images were recently featured in a story about Florence on ABC’s Sunday Arts program.
Emma’s recent 2008 collection, featured during the Adelaide Fringe Festival, features exotic Australian animals, nude landscapes and a continued collection of Florence Broadhurst wallpapers. Emma photographed this collection herself, evolving her talents further.
Works exhibited October 2008 at The Weekend Australian Art Sydney included a continued mix of Broadhurst wallpaper images featuring a mixture of male and female muses. Her ‘Beautiful Ways to Die’ collection, inspired by fairytales incorporating framed situations. Emma explores intricately painted porcelain busts and a mix of other treasures sure to project her into the national and international art arenas.
Emma won the Renault New Generation Art Award at the ART Sydney exhibition.
‘I love working with the beautiful and aesthetically pleasing designs of the late Florence Broadhurst, they allow for a lovely energy and character combined with the human form. I hope to continue this relationship with Signature Prints’.
Emma Hack’s latest photographic series is a comment on the fragility of our environment and will feature sweeping panoramic South Australian landscapes with a figurative element. Her aim is to draw attention to the beauty of her own backyard, and to how our landscape is being affected by current environmental issues. This collection will be exhibited at The Adelaide Airport as part of the Adelaide Fringe Festival program.
Emma’s recent exhibition at ART Melbourne drew much media attention and sales were extremely strong, establishing her further as an artist worth watching.
Upcoming Exhibitions
2009
- August 5th - 24th -- Past Delights -- SALA Festival
Burnside Village, Adelaide
Images to be hung in the windows of selected retailers
Special live body art in window of Nicolas Pike saturday 8th August 11am - 4pm
Artist talk and tour saturday 15th and 22nd 2pm- and 4pm
Burnside Village
447 Portrush Road
Glenside SA 5065
Monday - Friday: 9am - 9pm
Saturday: 9am - 5pm
Sunday: 11am - 5pm
All sales enquiries to contact:
Gallery 139
139 Magill Road,
Stepney,
South Australia, 5069
ph: (08) 8363 6139
e: info@139.com.au
- September 3rd - 13th -- New Works and Past Delights
Frances Keevil Gallery, New South Wales
A premiere of Emma's new works featuring backgrounds painted by Emma with her muses blended within holding exotic Australian birds.
Past delights include her well loved 2008 Florence Broadhurst wallpaper illusions and Panoramic Bodies, created in early 2009
www.franceskeevilart.com.au
Shops 5&6, Bay Village,
28-34 Cross Street
Double Bay, NSW 2028
ph/fax: 02 93272475
mob: 0411 821550
e: info@franceskeevilart.com.auGallery hours
Monday - Friday: 10am - 5pm
Saturday: 10am - 4pm; Sunday: 11am - 4pm - September 27th - October 17th -- New Works and Past Delights
Obscura Gallery, Victoria
Emma's new works featuring backgrounds painted by Emma with her muses blended within holding exotic Australian birds.
Past delights include her well loved 2008 Florence Broadhurst wallpaper illusions and Panoramic Bodies, created in early 2009
www.obscuragallery.com
Beller House, Suite 11
285 Carlisle St
East St Kilda Victoria 3183
ph: (03) 9525 9377 mob: 0409 312 839
e: info@obscuragallery.com
Gallery hours
Tuesday - Saturday: 12pm - 6pm
- October 22nd - 25th -- New Works and Past Delights
ART Sydney, New South Wales
An extensive range of images from 2002 - 2009 to view and a chance to meet Emma to chat about her work.
www.artsydney09.com.au
Royal Hall of Industries
Moore Park
Thursday: (First Night), 6 - 9pm
Friday: 11am - 9pm
Saturday: 10am - 6pm
Sunday: 10am - 5pm
- November 4th - 16th -- New Works and Past Delights
Gallery 139
A premiere of Emma's new works featuring backgrounds painted by Emma with her muses blended within holding exotic Australian birds and animals.
Past delights include her well loved 2008 Florence Broadhurst wallpaper illusions and Panoramic Bodies, created in early 2009
www.139.com.au
139 Magill Road
Stepney, South Australia 5069
ph: (08) 8363 6139
e: info@139.com.au
2010
- March -- New works, Frances Keevil Gallery, New South Wales
- April -- New and past works, ART Melbourne
- October -- New and pastworks, ART Sydney, New South Wales
- November -- New works, Gallery 139
Past Exhibitions
2009
- February -- Panoramic Bodies & various others, Adelaide Airport, SA
- April -- ART Melbourne
2008
- November 14th -- New works, Art Images Gallery, Adelaide, SA
- October 23rd -- New works, Weekend Australian ART Sydney, NSW
- August-Sept -- Retrospective works, Dare Hair, SALA Festival, Adelaide, SA
- July -- Retrospective works, Melrose Gallery, Melrose, SA
- February -- body.art.08 @ The Fringe Festival, Tincat Gallery, Adelaide, SA
2007
- December -- Cowscapes and Painted Ponies, Paxton Winery, McLaren Vale, SA
- November -- Cowscapes and Painted Ponies, Tincat Gallery, Adelaide
- October -- Body Painting Broadhurst, The Arthouse Hotel, Sydney
- March -- Oriental Delights, Tincat Gallery, Adelaide
2006
- October -- Yoga Collection, The Arthouse Hotel, Sydney
- September -- Yoga Collection, Tincat Gallery, Adelaide
2005
- March -- body.art.05. Tincat Gallery, Adelaide
2004
- October -- Adelaide Cabaret Festival, The Arthouse Hotel, Sydney
- June -- Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide
2003
- October -- Retrospective works, The Arthouse Hotel, Sydney
- March -- Retrospective works, FAD Gallery, Adelaide
2002
- November -- Petal Collection, Warehouse, Sydney
- March -- Petal Collection, To Relish, Adelaide
1999
- November -- body.art.00. The Royal Hotel, Adelaide
Group Exhibitions
2008
- May -- Retrospective works, Brunswick St Gallery, Adelaide
- April -- Retrospective works , Art Moments Gallery, Sydney
- March -- Retrospective works, Marie Hart Galleries, Adelaide
- January -- Retrospective works, Marie Hart Galleries, Adelaide
2007
- December -- Retrospective works, Catwalk Exhibition, Tincat Gallery, Adelaide
2004
- November -- Retrospective works, Erotica Exotica, Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide
2002
- October -- Petal Collection, Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide
Collections
- Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2004 collection,
- Adelaide Festival Centre. Celebrity Chef’s Un-Peeled, National Portrait Gallery
- Emma collaborated with famed Australian Photographic artist Deborah Paauwe on her
Dark Fables exhibition featured at the Adelaide Art Gallery
Press
Emma Hack has received much international and interstate press this year with stories featured in papers such as New York Daily, UK Telegraph, The Mirror, The UK Sun, China Daily, Spanish People Daily, CCTV , The Advertiser, Tasmanian Mercury, and Sydney Morning Herald. Read some of these on the articles page of this website.
Emma is also featured in many design magazines worldwide including ‘Platform’ magazine, India and upcoming ‘Le Tabure’ Magazine, Russia and ‘Home Concepts’ magazine, Singapore.
Emma was most recently featured in Trendhunter.com, ‘Artist Emma Hack, who lives in Australia, creates really gorgeous designs utilizing female models that she successfully blends in with their surroundings. The effect is beautifully crisp, vibrant, living three dimensional wallpaper.’
