Emily King Simpson

Emily King Simpson is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in oil painting and textile based sculptural work. She graduated from the Bachelor of Fine Arts program at the University of Ottawa in April 2021 where she was awarded the University of Ottawa Sculpture Prize. She is also a graduate of the Arts Administration and Cultural Management postgraduate certificate at Humber College.

Emily’s practice aims to explore queer femininity through personal experiences, as well as through queer histories and cultural productions, such as feminist theories and lesbian literature. She combines figurative and abstract modes of representation to create paintings that are in dialogue with these themes.

Through her textile work, she combines garment construction, embroidery and fabric painting to explore the ways that fashion and craft practices relate to gender and sexual identity. Emily strives to create work that engages in dialogues surrounding queer feminine identities and the introspective nature of discovering one’s own identity.