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Educated in London at Chelsea College of Art and The Slade, Emma Stroude lives and works in North Sligo.
Ireland's history and Atlantic coastline influence the two diverse themes which run parallel in her practice. One stems from her interest in women's role in Irish history resulting in an ever evolving series of charcoal portraits of key female figures. The other has emerged from her surrounding environment, the dramatic weather and ever changing light of the North West and the culture of being on the move, glimpsing transient moments of beauty from a moving vehicle.
She has work in public and private collections in Europe and the USA. Collections include OPW, Imago Mundi (Luciano Benetton) and Pierce Brosnan.
Artist's Statement
'My current work stems from my fascination with relationships between light, water and the landscape. Some of the paintings are animated by notions of speed, movement and travel while others focus on moments of stillness and quiet contemplation. In each work I attempt to capture the transformation of an ordinary scene caused by the presence of light and water in the atmosphere, to articulate and record in paint a moment of weather-driven drama or luminescent beauty that may otherwise fade and be lost.'
Emma Stroude 2015
‘To snatch from time the passionate transitory…’
Patrick Kavanagh
The painter has a few ancient skills to guide their response and Emma is a consumate painter; her antennae are always atuned to the one arresting image that cancels out all the others. Her work moves from tonal shading to cloudy atmospherics, not unlike those faraway Arcadian cloudscapes glimpsed in the backgrounds of old masterpieces by Titian or Goya, craft and composure are needed, and a bit of a break in the weather.
With Emma’s work we look out on a symphonic Turner-like painterly vista, at the mercy of elements beyond our control, turbulent and storm thrown, we also find a breathing space in the meteorlogical chaos, a moment of repose, we find a kind of peace.
Emma frames those places for us, and with a sure, certain painterly touch, brings us back there again and again, reminding us what it’s like to be alive to that sudden illuminating moment, catching it before the glow fades.
Exhibitions
2016
26th July – 23rd August
Invited Artist, A Terrible Beauty is Born,
1916 themed group exhibition at The Hyde Bridge Gallery Sligo,
July 21st – 1st August
Invited artist, North By Northwest, King
House, Boyle Arts Festival, Co.Roscommon
July 5th – July 29th
Light Water and the Atmosphere, Group Exhibition, The Kildare Gallery @ Intel, Maynooth, Co.
Kildare
June 2nd – July 1st
Invited Artist, A Terrible Beauty is Born, 1916 themed
group exhibition at Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
May
29th – June 4th
Invited Artist, Remembering
1916 at Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton
May
5th – 28th 2016
GLOW, solo
exhibition at The Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
March
4th – April 15th 2016
Invited artist for 100 a
1916 themed group exhibition at LUAN Gallery, Athlone
March 24th – April 2nd 2016
Spotlights & Shadows,
a collaborative public art piece with Joe Hunt and The Hyde Bridge Gallery,
projections of Emma Stroude’s drawings of Women of The Rising visible on the
wall from dusk on Rockwood Parade, Sligo over the Easter period (Funded by
Sligo County Council for Ireland 2016)
March
18th – 29th 2016
‘Northwest Open
Prizewinners 2014‘ , Group exhibition at Leitrim Scultpure Centre
with artists Amanda Jane Graham, Helen Sharp, Simon Carman & John Cullen
January
6th – 23rd 2016
Women of The Rising at
The Model, Sligo including an artist’s talk as part of The Model’s ‘Nollaig na
mBan’ event.
2015
December 2015
Invited artist in ‘Poem for Winter’ at The Hyde
Bridge Gallery, Sligo
November-December
2015
‘A Celebration of
Sculpture and Painting’ opening group exhibition of The
Kildare Gallery, Carton House, Co.Kildare
July
4th – 29th 2015
‘Corballa’,
group exhibition at Teach Bán Nua Gallery, Drumcliffe with artists Lorna
Watkins and Medbh Gillard
June 13th – 27th 2015
Invited artist in ‘Fall
of the Dew’, group exhibition themed on The Yeats Sisters during
Lily & Lolly Craftfest, Sligo
June
13th 2015
Invited exhibitor at The
Great Yeats Birthday Party, Lissadell House, Sligo
June 2nd to 11th 2015
Yeats Poetry and Place,
at The Hyde Bridge Gallery, Sligo
April 7th to 18th 2015
‘Elsewhere’ Solo
Exhibition at The Hyde Bridge Gallery, Sligo
March 6th – 28th 2015
5@6, Group
exhibition with Aideen Connolly, Medbh Gillard, Diane Roemer and Lorna Watkins
at Gallery No. 6, Market Street, Sligo
December 5th 2014 – January 16th 2015
Leitrim Sculpture Centre
Christmas Exhibition, Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim
2014
December 2014
‘line form
flesh body space vision’ studio+ and Graphite &
Easel, at The Model, Sligo
November
22nd, Saturday 3-5pm, 2014
(Work on View from Fri 21st – Fri 28th November)
‘At Home’ with the Easter
Widows – the Sligo launch of Sinead McCoole’s new book ‘Easter
Widows’ and exhibition of portraiture by Emma Stroude at The Model, Sligo
November
18th – 29th 2014
Coney ,
The Hyde Bridge Gallery, Sligo, Co.
July/August
2014
The North West Open 2014,
Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim
Awarded a future group exhibition
with Amanda Jane Graham, Helen Sharp, John Cullen & Simon Carmen
July 2014
Cairde Visual 2014,
The Hyde Bridge Gallery, Sligo, Co. Sligo
April
2014
The Glebe Gallery Open
Easter Exhibition, Church Hill, Donegal
January
2014
Expanded Territories,
The Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
December
2013
Expanded Territories,
Dublin Civic Offices, Wood Quay, Dublin
September
2013
Expanded Territories,
The Dock Arts Centre, Carrick-on-Shannon
July
2013
Sky Arts Portrait Artist
of the Year Event, RDS, Dublin (not as a competitor)
March
2013
The Glebe Gallery Open
Easter Exhibition, Church Hill, Co.Donegal
December
2012
Open Season,
The Dock, Carrick on Shannon, Co. Leitrim
September
2010
Emma Stroude, Recent
Paintings, The Organic Centre, Rossinver, Co.Leitrim
July
2010
Emma Stroude, Recent Paintings,
Nean Tog, Cliffoney, Co. Sligo
