Emma Roche

Emma Roche is a painter (b. 1983, Dublin, Ireland). Her paintings are driven by everyday disruptions such as waged work and parenting responsibilities. The knitted-paint paintings are made by making long lines of acrylic paint extruded through a syringe and laid out to dry. Once the paint has dried it is used as if it is wool or thread and the strands are knitted together (with knitting needles) to make the painting. Preliminary drawings on graph paper are used as patterns/craft charts to work from - each square represents a stitch to build the image. 

The layered process corresponds to a humdrum of daily repetitiveness and physically
records and stores time.