Em Finucane

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Em is a Chinese- Australian visual designer, artist and tattooer, recently relocated to London from Naarm ‘Melbourne.’ They have tattooed for eight years alongside undertaking collaborative projects and running an arts space- Idle Time.

Em Finucane acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woiwurrung people of the Kulin Nation as sovereign custodians of the land on which we work, live, create and collaborate. Paying respects to Elders, past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.

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MAG DRAG 01 2023

MAG DRAG is a collaborative project with Eilish Hazell and Ruby Healey.

The first edition of MAG DRAG interviewed 12 Melbourne-based tattoo artists about their practice and ethos. MAG DRAG explores alternate pathways and DIY tattooing with the aim to demystify the artist and bridge artist/client connections outside of the Instagram algorithim.

MAG DRAG stockists:
Metropolis
Brunswick Bound
Fiend Bookshop
PVC Studio

Scan: Ruby Healey

Photo: Jake Pattison

The Body as a Space We Inhabit 2022

Latex, ballpoint pen, acrylic nails, piercings, oranges, chain, incense

The Body as a Space We Inhabit was exhibited as part of Aeon Resurrection at Incinerator Gallery. The work explored themes of ritual, home as place, home as body in a diasporic context.

Aeon Resurrection

19 April 2022 - 29 May 2022

A group show that explored transformation, resilience and healing within unstable environments heralding ways of co-habitation within cataclysmic moments of death and regeneration.

Artists include:

Ange Jeffery, Em Finucane, Diego Ramirez, Justin Shoulder, Jahkarli Romanis, Huntrezz Janos, Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer and Thin Red Lines (Asiel Adan Sanchez, Lia Dewey Morgan, Evelyn Araluen, Laniyuk, Thabani Tshuma, and Georgia Kartas/Saint Jorge).

Curated by: Jake Treacy

Media:
ArtsHub
MemoReview

Photo: Arts Hub

Photo: Lucy Foster

Photo: Em Finucane

Photo: Lucy Foster

Idle Time Studio 2021-2024

Idle Time Studio was a warehouse creative space founded and co run with Ruby Healey over the years 2021-2024. Idle Time had permanent studio spaces and held creative workshops/events such as monthly life drawing sessions, art markets, open studios and tattoo flash events.

Animation: Ruby Healey

Photo: Sunny Lennon

Photo Sunni Lennon

The Body as a Space We Inhabit (2) 2022

The Body as a Space We Inhabit is a publication made in conjuction with the sculptural work. The book photographs and interviews and 8 people about their tattoo collections, relationship to their body, agency and expression. The design plays with transparency and layering.

Photographs by: Ruby Healey
Design and typography by me.