Emily Marbach

Emily Marbach
London, United Kingdom

STATEMENT

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—torn pages, discarded publications, and chromatic remnants—treating 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.

BIO

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’s collages have appeared in several books, such as Collage Care, Traditions, and Collage Your Life. And in publications such as Contemporary Collage Magazine and Cut Me Up Magazine.

Most recently, she has had a handful of collages hung at the London showroom of Love Your Home. In May 2025, she was ArtUltra’s Artist of the Month. She took part in “The Ascent of Man” group exhibition in Edinburgh at the House of Smalls. She had a collage in “Beauty Through the Eyes of Artists,” 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.

After having such an interesting experience in Sanquhar at the first Kolaj residency there, she was chosen in 2025 for Contemporary Collage Magazine’s inaugural residency in Hackney Wick.

Emily is the author of The Collage Haggadah.

ARTIST CONTACT

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