About Me

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 Emelyn Rowan is a sculpture artist currently based in Massachusetts. They use their passion for all things vile, strange, and soft, to create sharp, unsettling, and sweet vessels. Combining texture, color, and function, they create pieces that are designed to be held by the audience. With an underlying feeling of discomfort, their work explores feelings of loss, joy, confusion, frustration, and trust. They take inspiration from processes like taxidermy and glassblowing for their own artistic process. While occasionally including discarded animal parts, or images of death, animals and decomposition, they don't actually practice taxidermy. Clay is their primary medium, and they've spent many years developing their skills as well as their artistic system. They consider the clay a partner in their practice and highlight the importance of working with it rather than controlling it. They connect with cycles of life and death, as well as the beauty and horror of nature, helping their work strike a balance between disturbing and comforting. They create sculptural items that fill the spectrum between functional and decorative. Their approach to making means they highly encourage their audience to find new ways to interact with their work, suggesting that their work should be touched, held, used, overlapped, moved around the space, and even worn. They primarily create with ceramics, but also enjoy using both digital and film photography in their work. They are currently at Simon’s Rock at Bard College, pursuing a bachelors of the arts. They started their ceramics studies in their freshman year of high school studying under Rose Papuga, then in college they were taught by Ben Krupka and Harrison Levenstein.