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Associate Professor Emma Febvre-Richards

Associate Professor

School of Art

Emma Febvre-Richards is an artist, whose research sits within the expanded practice of drawing. Engaging ‘Drawing is Thinking’ to combine traditional mediums of rendering with advanced technology and other disciplines (sound and neuro-science) to explore how codes of our environment, culture and art creation inform and influence brain function, memory and experience.

She has exhibited and published in Asia, Europe and the Pacific, and is a co-founder of Drawing Open: an international research community (https://www.drawingopen.com/).

Emma is at Whiti o Rehua School of Art, Massey University Wellington, New Zealand, having studied in England and gained her MFA in France.

Professional

Contact details

  • Ph: 64 4 801 5799 extn 63510
    Location: CoCA Shared offices, Block 1
    Campus: Wellington

Research Expertise

Research Interests

I am a multi-media artist whose research sits within the expanded practice of drawing. Combining traditional and technological processes to explore the neurological pathways of memory and experience.

I am exploring how drawing through technology can reflect and reveal how the brain processes personal recollections of site. Gathering, purging, layering, selecting, favoring and reconfiguring memory appropriate to the significance of the original emotional experience. This current body of work sourcing the traditional observed elements (texture, density, colour and spacing) of ‘the botanical study’ to develop a contemporary twist on how natures’ patterns effect our emotional, ocular and mental perceptions.

 

Thematics

21st Century Citizenship

Area of Expertise

Field of research codes
Film, Television and Digital Media (190200): Fine Arts (incl. Sculpture and Painting) (190502): Lens-based Practice (190503):
Medical And Health Sciences (110000): Neurosciences (110900):
Studies In Creative Arts And Writing (190000): Visual Arts and Crafts (190500)

Keywords

Borders of drawing, painting, technologies, disciplines, cultures, environment, design and fine arts. Using computer and laser drawing, mapping, scholastic and mental codes, human thought processes, cerbral pathways, historical and contemporary rituals, art science collaboration.

Research Outputs

Journal

Febvre-Richards, ER. (2016). Botanics Revisited IV. Drawing: Research, Theory and Practice. Volume 1(2), 265-272 Retrieved from http://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/intellect/drtp/2016/00000001/00000002/art00008?c
[Journal article]Authored by: Febvre-Richards, E.
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Creative Work

Febvre-Richards, E., & Dean, M. (2018) Botanics Revisited III. [Exhibition] Santander, Spain
[Artwork]Authored by: Febvre-Richards, E.
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Febvre-Richards, ER., & Merlino, D. (2017) Diptych South. [Exhibition] [Single channel video with 2 audio tracks] At LUX International Light Festival, Wellington New Zealand. 12 - 21 May 2017
[Artwork]Authored by: Febvre-Richards, E.
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Febvre-Richards, ER. (2015) Part II: Botanical studies re-visited: Native varietal 14 - hue cognition studies, 2015. [Exhibition] Slade School of Fine Arts
[Artwork]Authored by: Febvre-Richards, E.
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Febvre-Richards, ER. (2015) Part I: Botanical studies re-visited: Growth patterning. [Exhibition] BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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Febvre-Richards, ER. (2015) Trelissick. [Exhibition] [Single channel video with audio, 13 minutes duration] Exhibited in Impact 9 Exhibition, Art Gallery of China Academy of Art, Hangzhou China. 22 September - 03 October 2015
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Febvre-Richards, ER. (2014) The Human Terrain II. [Exhibition] [Laser Drawing]. The Parkin Drawing Prize, New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington, New Zealand
[Artwork]Authored by: Febvre-Richards, E.
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Febvre-Richards, ER. (2012, February 6). The Human Terrain. [35 laser cut, 42cm x 59.4cm, paper works divided into five series]. L'Ecole Superieure d'Art d'Aix-en-Provence. 06 February - 24 February 2012.
[Exhibition]Authored by: Febvre-Richards, E.
Febvre-Richards, ER. (2012) Silk and lace: 13th anniversary gifts. [Exhibition] [4 laser cut paper art works on light boxes]. The Blue Oyster Project Space, Dunedin, New Zealand
[Artwork]Authored by: Febvre-Richards, E.
Febvre-Richards, ER. (2011) The Rituals of Code. [Exhibition] Included in 'Rituals', Centre Tjibaou, Noumea, New Caledonia (02 Nov 2011 - 19 Feb 2012)
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Conference

Febvre-Richards, E., & Febvre-Richards, E. (2019, May). MeDArT: A tale of two hemispheres. Presented at Living. Well with Dementia, Dementia Wellington Symposium. Wellington, New Zealand.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Febvre-Richards, E.
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Febvre-Richards, E., Filleau, C., Konig, A., Nafti, A., & Robert, P. (2018). Double prise en charge pour les patients souffrant de la maladie d’Alzheimer ou syndromes apparentes et de leurs aidants par la méditation pleine conscience et l’art thérapie numérique MED-ART. Poster session presented at the meeting of Réunion Francophone sur la Maladie d’Alzheimer et Syndromes Apparentés (RFMASA). Faculté de Médecine de Lille. France
[Conference Poster]Authored by: Febvre-Richards, E.
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Febvre-Richards, E.Drawing Together: Tackling dementia through drawing, technology, science and. Technology collaboration. . Auckland, New Zealand
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Febvre-Richards, E.
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Febvre-Richards, E., & Merlino, D. (2018). Co-creation as Encounter. ISBN: 978-84-09-07801-1. (pp. 238 - 241). : IMPACT 10 Encuentro
[Conference Paper in Published Proceedings]Authored by: Febvre-Richards, E.
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Febvre-Richards, ER., & Starkey, N.We are what we don’t remember. . Syracuse University, New York, United States of America
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Febvre-Richards, ER., & Starkey, N. (2015). Science of Print. Impact 9: Printmaking in the Post-Print Age. : Impact 9: Printmaking in the Post-Print Age
[Conference Paper in Published Proceedings]Authored by: Febvre-Richards, E.
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Febvre-Richards, ER."Nature in Mind". . Wellington, New Zealand
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Febvre-Richards, ER. (2012). 'The Humanity of Drawing: An artist's journey'. http://process.arts.ac.uk/content/humanity-drawing-artists-journey. Process Arts University Arts London: Drawing Out Conference 2012
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Consultancy and Languages

Languages

  • French
    Last used: current
    Spoken ability: Excellent
    Written ability: Average

Media and Links

Media

  • 23 Oct 2018 - Radio
    Art Therapy to help dementia Symptoms
    I was interviewed on ‘Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan in Radio New Zealand (RNZ) on new ways for us to understand the details of the impact dementia can have. “Massey's College of Creative Arts has tea
  • 12 Dec 2019 - Radio
    troubles-cognitifs-mind-art-
    MinDArT was interviewed on the 12th of December at the Workshop IA by RCF France, radio network. The workshop is the annual general public opening day at the Institut Claude Pompidou.

Other Links

  • drawing open - Drawing Open is an umbrella trans-disciplinary drawing research community
  • MeDArT - MeDArT: Science, drawing and technology for advancing dementia research
  • Emma Febvre-Richards - Artist website