About — Emily Lawrence

As an artist, I’ve always struggled to maintain a normal art practice in a normal art studio, until I accepted that my kitchen and my home was where I wanted to create. I’m most content and inspired quietly waiting for something beautiful to bake or grow, mentally writing love letters to meringue and poppies as time goes by. I’m tickled by the magic of transformation.

Through photography, I document the things I make to enrich my day, my space, and my tongue—like life fertilizer. The ingredients that keep me full and satiated as an artist are playful design, unlikely but harmonious combinations, adding form to function, and, perhaps most importantly, colour.

My conceptual food photography is motivated by celebrating the pleasure (rather than the fear) of food in our pervasive diet culture. I love exploring the physiological magnetism of drips and drizzles, of sugar and fat, the potency of food fantasies, and the intersection between contemporary and early colour food photography of the 60s. My art parents are Pee Wee Herman and Nigella Lawson.