Émilie Allard: End of Residency Event

Join us on 29 November 2024, 6-8 pm for an informal presentation by Émilie Allard, our current Darling Newhaven Resident!

Over the past three months, Émile Allard has been in residence at ESW, dedicating her time to mastering techniques in foundry work, organic burnout, and patina finishes. Building on her approach of transforming used objects by combining them with newly fabricated elements, she has been developing a compelling new body of work. This latest series draws on themes of recollection, labyrinths, and hyper-specialised organs, inviting viewers to contemplate the role and resonance of art in public and institutional spaces today.

This residency, organised with our partner Fonderie Darling in Montreal, and including a two week stay at Hospitalfield in Arbroath alongside other practitioners, has allowed Allard the time and freedom to experiment, explore and refine her skills. Although her work is still in progress and the questions remain open, we are delighted to invite you to an informal discussion where she will share her journey, insights, and creative process.

Join us for this unique opportunity to engage with Émilie’s work and ideas. We look forward to seeing you there!

Émilie Allard 

Artist and poet Émilie Allard holds a bachelor’s degree in graphic design from Université du Québec à Montréal (2015) and a master’s degree in sculpture from Concordia University (2023). In addition to her individual practice, she has collaborated with choreographers and dancers, and has been part of a multidisciplinary collective.

Allard’s individual and collective work has been presented on several occasions, including at the Centre Clark, the Festival international de littérature, Tangente, Arsenal art contemporain and Espace Projet. As a poet, she was selected for Radio-Canada’s 2018 poetry competition and published Carbone Scopique in 2021 and Désencombrements, matière et événement, in 2024, both at Le Lézard amoureux, as well as a text in Estuaire magazine. She completed a residency at Le Lieu unique, Nantes, thanks to the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec in 2022-23 and will be a resident at the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop in Scotland as part of the Darling Newhaven program in 2024. 

You can find out more about Allard’s work here

Darling Newhaven is organised with partners Fonderie Darling in Montreal and Hospitalfield in Arbroath. We appreciate the support of our funders listed below and also for the Quebec Government Office in London for support for this event.