Em Finucane

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Em is a Chinese- Australian tattooist and visual artist based in London after relocating from Naarm ‘Melbourne.’ They have tattooed for nine years alongside undertaking collaborative projects and co-running studio spaces - Idle Time and New Language.   

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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Growing Pains 2024


Growings Pains 1st Aug 2024
Duo exhibition at Filet, London.

Growing Pains was a duo show, curated with, and showcasing works by Lotte Frances. The exhibition comprises of works produced concurrently across Melbourne, London and Barcelona. Growing Pains examines how queer and diasporic people build home within the body, to ask if the ‘home’ is a portable concept.
‘I did this all for you’ 2024
Chain welded by Rebekka Homann
Growing Pains 2024
‘2 punch ons in 1 day’ 2024
1. Groundhog Day 2. Yung Shue Wan main street
Growing Pains 2024
‘Every night I dream of’ 2024
‘Picadilly line to Cockfosters’ 2024
Growing Pains poster design

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
Scan: Ruby Healey
Scan: Ruby Healey
Photo: Jake Pattison
Photo: Jake Pattison
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: Lucy Foster
Photo: Lucy Foster
Photo: Em Finucane
Photo: Lucy Foster
Photo: Lucy Foster
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 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.
Photo: Em Finucane
Photo: Em Finucane
Photo: Em Finucane

Illustration

 
Selection of illustration work from 2022-2024

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