{"id":9025,"date":"2026-01-15T17:32:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T22:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/?p=9025"},"modified":"2026-02-05T10:30:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T15:30:41","slug":"emily-marbach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/emily-marbach","title":{"rendered":"Emily Marbach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Capable and Defensive<\/em>
11.7″x8.3″; maps, patterned and magazine papers; 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Emily Marbach
London, United Kingdom<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

STATEMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My practice is rooted in a process of intuitive discovery rather than rigid planning. Working primarily in analog collage, I allow the imagery to lead the way, finding connections in the chaos of my studio. I am a collector of fragments\u2014torn pages, discarded publications, and chromatic remnants\u2014treating the hunt for materials as a vital part of the creative act. This can take me anywhere from an urban wall, hanging an exhausted fly-posted concert poster, to the swap shop in a rubbish dump in Connecticut. By juxtaposing elements of nature, politics\/feminism, and portraiture, I explore the tension between found text and the breathing room of the white page, the weight of ancient texts with the frivolity of modern images, and the secular with the religious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BIO<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emily Marbach is an American figurative collagist living in London. Most notably, she has exhibited and sold paintings and a collage at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions for two summers running. She was represented by Long & Ryle. Her work was exhibited with the shortlisted winners of the Ashurst Prize. In the past several years, Emily\u2019s collages have appeared in several books, such as Collage Care<\/em>, Traditions<\/em>, and Collage Your Life<\/em>. And in publications such as Contemporary Collage Magazine<\/em> and Cut Me Up Magazine<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most recently, she has had a handful of collages hung at the London showroom of Love Your Home. In May 2025, she was ArtUltra\u2019s Artist of the Month. She took part in \u201cThe Ascent of Man” group exhibition in Edinburgh at the House of Smalls. She had a collage in \u201cBeauty Through the Eyes of Artists,\u201d a group exhibition in Montmartre, Paris. In 2024, she had a collage in Turin at the imagined architecture exhibition through Faiv Officina. Marbach also participated in the Slovenian collage festival in Kranj, that year, called Kaos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After having such an interesting experience in Sanquhar at the first Kolaj residency there, she was chosen in 2025 for Contemporary Collage Magazine<\/em>\u2019s inaugural residency in Hackney Wick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emily is the author of The Collage Haggadah<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ARTIST CONTACT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

EMAIL<\/a> | WEBSITE<\/a> | INSTAGRAM<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

IMAGES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bird Shooin<\/em>g
8.3″x11.7″; painted, found, patterned and crafted papers; 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Moi?<\/em>
11.7″x8.3″; patterned, drawn, crafted, and vintage papers; 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Baby Hands<\/em>
8.3″x5.8″; book pages; 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Special K Again<\/em>
11.7″x8.3″; painted papers, stencilled letters, advertising poster; 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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