Partners in Art is proud to support Emma Welch’s project Twin Flames taking place September 5 – October 4, 2025 at Hunt Gallery. This is Welch’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. 

Welch’s practice is fundamentally rooted in drawing, which she uses to make both two dimensional and three dimensional work from. She constructs an index of interspecific and imaginative biological forms by repeatedly layering, drawing and redrawing fragments of flora, fauna, and non-human elements found in geographically specific environments. Welch is specifically interested in species that use camouflage. Through colour, multiplication, repetition and positioning on a single plane or point, these works take on qualities of psychic distortion and camouflage. She calls this ongoing research ‘field psychedelia’.

Emma Welch lives and works in Toronto, Canada. Her work has been shown at Hunt Gallery (Toronto), darkzone (New Jersey), Project Underwing (Toronto), Galerie Nicolas Robert (Montréal), Galerie d’art Stewart Hall (Pointe-Claire), Andrew Rafacz (Chicago), Erin Stump Projects (Toronto), and Egret Egress (Toronto). She attended the Annandale Artist Residency in Annandale, Prince Edward Island in 2024 and is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including the Ontario Arts Council, and the Canada Council. for the Arts. Most recently Welch received a Canada Council Concept to Realization grant for her first international solo exhibition “FTC”, at Andrew Rafacz in Chicago, USA. Her work is included in the collections of Scotiabank Fine Art Collection, Royal Bank of Canada Corporate Art Collection, Equitable Bank Art Collection, as well as several private collections both locally and internationally. She is a co-founder and collective member of the plumb, an artist-run project space in Toronto. She holds a BAH from the University of Guelph. 

Image credits:

Images 1 and 2: Chrysalis, 2024, two-part waterproof and fireproof epoxy, wood, steel, 97” x 10” x 10”

Image 3: Molting 1, 2023, wax pastel and coloured pencil on linen over panel, 72” x 54”

Image 4: Hatching (diptych), 2023, wax pastel and coloured pencil on linen over panel, 40” x 60”

All images courtesy of LF Documentation.