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site08 Darbyshire Award winner Emily Smith is working with darbyshire framing services on the development of her exhibition which will be opening at sva in February.

Emily is a sculptor, ceramicist and installation artist. Her practice examines themes of loss, absence and trace and stands as an investigation of memory; the subjectivity, transience and loss inherent in the act of remembering. The work is rooted in philosophy and in theory such as Derrida's theory of grammatical trace and Freud's theory of memory, and applies it to the materials and methods used. The work questions objective and singular memory, and investigates how the past is recalled through both visual memory and physical trace.

Her current work leading up to the Darbyshire Award Exhibition brings forward a profoundly personal narrative, which exposes universal themes of loss and absence