Emery’s installation at FRIEZE No9 Cork Street Gallery, carves out an intersection between environmental stewardship and artistic expression

In Lost Bodies, honed boulders evoke glacial erratics (errare, “to wander”), rocks once carried across vast distances by glaciers and abandoned as the ice withdrew, their compositions, often foreign to the lands where they now rest. Emery draws parallels between the displacement of these stones and the upheaval faced by human communities uprooted by climate change. Interlacing geological memory with human experience, Lost Bodies becomes a meditation on resilience, adaptation, and the search for belonging amid constant movement and loss.

With Future Relics, Emery extends this dialogue with the landscape through sediment-covered stones that echo moraines, the accumulations of rock and soil carried and deposited by glaciers as they retreat. Using salvaged granite bound with a lime-based material that draws in atmospheric CO₂ as it cures, she creates sculptures that continue to breathe with the earth actively sequestering carbon as they age.