I'm Emma McGinn, an artist and researcher, exploring personal experience through textiles-based creative practice. I am based in Dorset, UK with a studio at Sandy Hill Arts in Corfe Castle.

My PhD research aims to materialise the experience of early motherhood through textiles practice. This involves not only exploring motherhood through making and the things made, but also reflecting on the experience of making during and in motherhood - acknowledging and shining a light on the ways that making and caring became interwoven as an artist-mother.

I adopt a practice-based research approach whereby I adopt auto-ethnographic methods alongside my textiles practice-based approach.

I am also a lecturer and workshop leader, with experience teaching and delivering workshops and seminars to BA and MA students at University of West London; University of the Arts London, Chelsea College of Art; University of Creative Arts, Epsom. Please get in touch for more info.

I currently run a small number of workshops at my studio in Corfe Castle. CLICK HERE for more info and to book.