Emilee Robinson

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Emilee Robinson (b. 2000) is an expanded printmedia artist, living and working on unceded Gadigal land.

Emilee’s practice explores the psychic architecture of memory - its unreliability, fragility, and capacity to blur the line between past and present. Informed by post-Freudian and anthropological frameworks, her process operates as a form of self-archeology, one that attempts to preserve and revive a past self lost to the inevitable force of time.

As a temporal realm often mourned, childhood returns in her work as both material and metaphor through the mnemonic device. A toy, image or fragment functions not only as a passive souvenir, but as a portal to a subconscious, remembered place. Through the alchemy of the contemporary print studio, Emilee’s process is grounded in embalming these archives to create works that exist in a state of suspension - partially lost and eroded by time, partially preserved. Here, personal memory, nostalgia and attachment intersect with a desperate attempt to revive a past self, and with a sanctuary built from fragments, longing and loss.