The gallery is pleased to present new work by Emma Welch for her first solo exhibition with the gallery. Welch uses strategies of repetition, layering and mirroring in both her paintings and sculptural work and draws from a concise index of forms generated from her research of plants, animals and insects, looking particularly at camouflage response. Instances of twinning and mirroring relate to a quality of mimicry, or hiding in plain sight, through pattern. With her columnar sculpture, Welch employs this iterative approach as a kind of anonymizing field with like forms radially arranged and repeated in a vertical stack. The shapes of these sculptural building blocks are articulated from the negative space between two forms, set in relation to one another, Rorschach-like. In a flat, uniform black, the column shifts from representing void space to shadow, in and of itself, a gesture in repetition. 

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Emma Welch lives and works in Toronto, Canada. Her work has been shown at Norberg Hall (Calgary), Hunt Gallery (Toronto), Project Underwing (Toronto), Galerie Nicolas Robert (Montréal), Erin Stump Projects (Toronto), and Egret Egress (Toronto). 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.