Emma Langridge
born 1974 Cheltenham, England
Resides and works in Footscray, Australia,
on the traditional lands of the Boon Wurrung & Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin Nations
education
2014-2022 PhD, Australian National University
1993-1996 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Western Australia
selected solo / two person exhibitions
2024 Sydney Contemporary Preview with Lachlan Stonehouse, Five Walls, Footscray, Victoria
2024 As is., Five Walls, Footscray, Victoria
2022 break/break, Five Walls, Footscray, Victoria
2022 Margin for Error, ANU School of Art & Design, Canberra, ACT
2020 Twenty One, Gray Contemporary, Houston, USA
2019 Repeater, Five Walls, Footscray, Victoria
2017 Visual Discrepancies, Crawford Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2016 New Signal, Five Walls, Footscray, Victoria
2016 Juncture, ANU Foyer Gallery, Canberra, ACT
2016 ENP 3, Everything Nothing Projects, Carlton, Victoria
2015 Disruption, Gray Contemporary, Houston, USA
2014 Signal to Noise, Anna Pappas Gallery, Prahran, Victoria
2012 Discrete, Factory 49, Marrickville, NSW 2011 Intersect with James Parrett, presented by Andrew Gaynor, Gould Galleries, Prahran, Victoria
2009 New Works, Metro Gallery, Armadale, Victoria
2007 Paintings presented by Andrew Gaynor, Flinders Upstairs, Melbourne, Victoria
2007 Paintings, Metro 5 Gallery, Armadale, Victoria
2006 Unfinished Journey, Metro 5 Gallery, Armadale, Victoria
2004 Paintings, Metro 5 Gallery, Armadale, Victoria
2004 Recent Paintings, Span, Melbourne, Victoria
2001 New Paintings, Seventh Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria
1998 Paintings with Jurek Wiebraniek, Goddard / de Fiddes Contemporary Art, Perth, Western Australia
selected group exhibitions
2025 5 Abstractions, Five Walls, Footscray, Victoria
2025 Structured Visions IV, Holmes à Court Gallery, West Perth, WA
2025 Looking back: celebrating 50 years through the Benalla Art Gallery Collection, Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla, Victoria
2025 Exploration 25, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2025 Spring 1883 Preview, Five Walls, Footscray, Victoria
2025 Fenestration: The Drawing Collective, Draw Space, Sydney
2025 Structured Visions III, Cartel Art Space, Bangkok
2024 Structured Visions II, Five Walls Projects, Footscray, Victoria
2023 Abstraction 23, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Richmond, Victoria
2023 Four Square, Five Walls, Footscray, Victoria
2023 Confluence of Lines, Abstract Project, Paris, France
2023 Structured Visions, cbOne Gallery, Abbotsford, Victoria
2023 SIX by FIVE, Five Walls, Footscray, Victoria
2023 ABSTRACTI♀N, Five Walls, Footscray, Victoria
2022 SNO @ Five Walls, Five Walls
2022 5 @ 5, Five Walls, Footscray, Victoria
2022 The Butterfly Effect, Poimena Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania
2022 Black, Five Walls, Footscray, Victoria
2021 Biennale Internationale d'Art Non Objectif - que des femmes...
Yarra Bend Gallery, Northcote, Victoria
2021 Tape II, Five Walls, Footscray, Victoria
2021 Konstructiv.ist Virtual Exhibition No. 4, online
2021 Orbit, Poimena Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania
2020 Five Ten Twenty Twenty, Five Walls, Footscray, Victoria
2019 Coterie to Coterie, Stores Building, North Paramatta, Australia
2019 Breathe, Museum St Wendel, Germany
2019 New Modern: RNOP Melbourne – The Road Paintings, Five Walls, Footscray
2019 The Drawing Project, MECA, Maine, USA
2019 Formal, Pomeina Gallery, Launceston 2018 RNOP Queensland: End of the Beginning, Raygun Project, Toowoomba
2018 Tape, Five Walls Projects
2018 The Exquisite Palette, Tacit Galleries, Abbotsford
2018 Intercontinental Line, Abstract Project, Paris, France
2018 ABSOLUTE, Boeckercontemporary, Heidelberg, Germany
2018 Abstraction 2018, Langford120, North Melbourne, Victoria
2018 Louder Than Bombs, The Curator Gallery, Chelsea, NY, USA
2017 SNO 139, Gallery 9, Sydney, Australia 2017 Objectify, Trestle Gallery, New York, USA
2017 Stockroom Travels, Cremorne Studios, Cremorne, Victoria, Australia
2017 Shades of Grey III, Tacit Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia
2017 Chromatopia, Tacit Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia
2017 TIMELINES Non Objective Art from Australia, Boeckercontemporary, Heidelberg, Germany
2017 SNO 129, SNO, Sydney, Australia
2017 The Drawing Project, Articulate Project Space, Sydney, Australia
2017 The Drawing Collective, Galerie Olivier Nouvellet, Paris, France
2016 Minuscules, Galerie Badweg 3, Bolsward, Netherlands
2016 Louder Than Bombs, Divisible, Dayton, Ohio, USA
2016 Dynamic, Steckline Gallery, Newman College, Wichita, USA
2016 Of Colour and Light, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2016 Shades of Grey, Tacit Contemporary, Abbotsford, Victoria, Melbourne
2016 Out of the Black and Into the Blue, Galerie van den Berge, Goes, Netherlands
2016 The Drawing Collective, Abstract Project, Paris, France
2016 PERIMETER, Five Walls Projects, Melbourne, Australia
2015 Corridor Presents, Galerie van den Berge, Goes, the Netherlands
2015 Grids#2, Galerie Van de Berge, Goes, Netherlands
2014 Dark: More than Black, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2014 Slow Worlds, Strange Neighbour, Melbourne, VIC
2014 Project 14: Free Range, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2013 Manic Episode 3, Part 2, TAS Temporary Art Space, Groningen, Netherlands
2013 Process/Ritual, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Abbotsford, VIC
2013 Methodist Ladies' College Biennial Acquisitive Exhibition, Melbourne, VIC
2013 Poste Concret2, parisCONCRET, Paris, France
2013 Annual Show, Factory 49, Sydney, NSW
2013 Shift and Repeat, parisCONCRET, Paris, France 2013
Reason and Romance, 6B, Elingen, Belgium
2013 The Exquisite Palette, St Luke's, Melbourne, VIC
2012/13 Manic Episode 3, Internationale Sonderausstellung, Künstlerhaus Dosenfabrik, Munich, Germany
2012 Show White, Blackartprojects, Melbourne, VIC
2012 Frames of Reference, langford120, North Melbourne, VIC
2012 Un:sighted, fortyfive downstairs, Melbourne, VIC
2012 Annual Show, Factory 49, Sydney, NSW 2011 100, Blackartprojects, Melbourne, VIC
2011 TLF: Exchange, Maryborough, QLD
2011 Manic Episode 2, Brickhouse Gallery & Arts Complex, Sacramento, USA and Reynolds Gallery, Stockton, California, USA
2011 All Sorts, Gould Galleries, Melbourne, VIC
2011 Autumn Collection, Gould Galleries, Melbourne, VIC
2010 Living with Art, private exhibition, Debra Majteles, Perth, WA
2009 Reductive, ACGA, Melbourne, VIC
2008 Silver Artrage 25, PICA, Perth, WA
2008 Small Gems, Metro Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2008 Assemblage #3, Sydney Non-Objective, Sydney, NSW
2007 Small Gems, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2006 Red Bull Music Academy, Melbourne, VIC
2006 Deckchair Theatre Company annual auction, Perth, WA
2005 Summer Exhibition, Brian Moore Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2004 Precious Platters, Jewish Museum of Australia, Melbourne, VIC
2003 Wall Candy, Conical, Melbourne, VIC
2002 Personal + Particular, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth, WA
2002 A Collection Survey, Holmes a Court Gallery, Perth, WA
2002 Material / Colour, Goddard / de Fiddes Contemporary Art, Perth, WA
2002 Exploration 3, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2000 Gdef @ Katsui, Goddard / de Fiddes & Katsui Studio, Perth, WA
2000 PAINT!, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, WA
1999 West Coast Geometric Abstraction, Goddard / de Fiddes, Perth, WA
1999 A View from the Sea, Santo Tomas University, Manila, Philippines and Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth, WA
1997 Hatched: National Graduate Show, PICA, Perth, WA
1997 A Further Possibility, Goddard / de Fiddes Contemporary Art, Perth, WA
1997 Choice (light), jacksue, Perth, WA
1997 Athens Exhibition (architecture), Athens Cultural Centre, Greece 1993-96
Various UWA School of Art and Architecture exhibitions, Perth, WA
1993 Year 12 Perspectives, Art Gallery of Western Australia, WA
curatorial projects
2023 ABSTRACTI♀N, Five Walls, Footscray, Victoria
2019 Liminal, Five Walls, Footscray, Victoria
2016 Shades of Grey, Tacit Contemporary, Abbotsford, Victoria
projects & commissions
2021 record sleeve artwork, Cheap Things LP, Stefan Christensen, C-Site recordings 2012 plate design, Lightly Design Studio, Collingwood, Victoria
2020 Gray / Grey (Matter): a global and postal social experiment, Divisible Projects, various locations
2016 Fiction (With Only Daylight Between Us) v.2, Divisible Projects, various locations
2011 site specific wall painting, BAProjects, Rosella Complex, Cremorne, VIC
2010 Citadines Hotel, Melbourne, VIC
2004 The Order of Melbourne (destroyed), Melbourne, VIC
1997 Jacksue Gallery façade (destroyed), WA
art fairs
2025 8th International Biennale of Nonobjective Arts, satellite event, Kunstraum Heidelberg
2025 Spring 1883, with Five Walls, Windsor Hotel, Melbourne
2025 8th International Biennale of Nonobjective Arts, satellite event, Kunstraum Heidelberg, Germany
2024 Sydney Contemporary, with Five Walls, Carriageworks, Sydney
2014 Melbourne Art Fair, with Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne Exhibition Centre
2013 Biennale Internationale d'Art Non Objectif - porquois pas/why not?, Sainte Marie d'Alloix/Salle Polyvalente, France
awards & prizes
2011 Substation Contemporary Art Prize, Newport, VIC (shortlisted)
2005 ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Award Exhibition
2004 Redlands Westpac Art Prize Exhibition
2004 Metro 5 Art prize (honourable mention, runner up in both categories)
2004 Linden’s Postcard Competition 2003 Metro 5 Art prize (finalist)
Collections
Artbank (1999, 2004)
Bankwest
Benalla Art Gallery (2004)
Edith Cowan University
Geelong Art Gallery (2020)
Holmes à Court (1999)
Image Archive Project / CCNOA (2014)
selected writings
Art / Edit
Issue 40, 2024, pp 44 - 51
Power Lines by Louise Martin-Chew
Art Collector
Sydney Contemporary 2024, Special Edition, pp 73 - 74
At What Cost?
PhD exegesis
Australian National University, 2022
Margin for Error: rules-based systems of painting and the anticipation of irregular outcomes
by Emma Langridge
Expanded Diagram Project
2021
Continually Discontinuous by Steven Baris
Artist Profile Magazine
Summer Edition / Issue 25, 2013-14, pp 124-126 Process by David Hagger
Unfinished Journey, Ken McGregor 2006, pp 104 - 119
essay by Andrew Gaynor
Lino
Issue 11, 2005 pp 108 – 112
The Age, Review 6 November 2004
The Process of Paint by Dewi Cooke
Herald Sun, Sunday Mag
31 October, 2004
On the Verge by Sarah Marinos
ISO
Issue 1, February 2004
page 01/28
Australian Financial Review
21 November 2002
Personal Passions by Cathy Bolt w/ John Barrett-Lennard
X-Press Magazine
Issue 701, 20 July 2000
Splatters of Time by Judith McGrath
catalogue essay July/August 2000
PAINT! by John Stringer
Westerly Summer 1998
The City of Dreams: New Art in Perth by Helen Carroll
Mu Magazine Issue 2, 1998
Labyrinth by Bec Dean
The West Australian July 2000, July 1999, April 1998, August 1997
On Show with David Bromfield