Emma Bush

Emma works in the field art and ecology making performance, site-specific walks, writing and workshops. Emma’s practice maps processes of exchange between ourselves and others, including animals, weather systems, oceans, forests, villages, cities, countries.  Emma’s areas of special interest include; listening, voice, dialogue, encounter, place, story, memoir, walking and sensory observation. Emma loves supporting makers in development of creative practice in all its forms and has strong interest and experience in developing critically supportive contexts and communities to strengthen learning, practice, interdisciplinary experimentation, and research.
Emma’s performance work, writing and workshops have been shared at Battersea Arts Centre, London, The Green Room, Manchester, Arnolfini, Bristol and in diverse sites including forest, village, field, old school building, empty barn, kitchen, garden, and coastal. Emma studied BA Theatre (2002) and MA Art and Ecology (2008) at Dartington College of Arts.  Emma’s practice as research PhD explores: Memoir, Materiality and the Intimate Encounter.  Emma has worked as Senior Lecturer for MA Poetics of Imagination at Dartington/Schumacher since its inception in 2020, previously taught Fine Art at Plymouth University (2018 -2022), and has taught at numerous other institutes since 2002.