The Curator’s Wishlist: Emie Diamond Interview

“Art is the fruits of conflict, elegance and the human expertise in a kind that is tangible.” Curator, critic and author Emie Diamond shares her wishlist with us.

By Tatty Martin | 09 Jun 2022

Emie Diamond is an Art Critic, Curator and Author dwelling and doing the job in London. Bridging the gap between “the tutorial and the commercial”, Emie’s method has taken influence from a prosperity of working experience. Regardless of whether undertaking her upcoming Master’s diploma or curating an exhibition in partnership with Soho Property, Emie is perfectly versed in the environment of present day and contemporary art.

We a short while ago sat down with Emie to understand about her journey in the New York and London artwork scenes, what remarkable jobs she’s at this time functioning on, and what parts she made a decision to opt for for her Curator’s Wishlist.

Notify us about on your own, and your journey as a author, critic, and curator

An early infatuation with literature led me to initially study English. Though, the study course of my everyday living altered immediately after enrolling in an artwork record study course while living in Rome. I realised that art is the culmination of conflict, splendor and the human experience in a form that is tangible. Time standing still. I was enthralled! 

My very first foray into artwork schooling was a Master’s degree at Harvard where by I wrote my thesis on modern artwork tradition post-1980s. I then moved to New York and proceeded to perform in the art business. I was regularly going to gallery openings and visiting studios. I absolutely adore finding out about the artist’s method and the methodology driving their observe. Present-day art genuinely enthusiastic me, as it is record in the making. I began an impartial curatorial system the place I developed exhibitions for sixteen artists and collaborated with firms such as The Common, Prospect NY, Soho House, and so forth. This past year I finished a History of Art Master’s diploma at the Courtauld Institute of Art, the place I specialised in curating contemporary artwork. I have created for a wide variety of publications from educational journals like Courtauld’s Immediations to arts and lifestyle publications like Cultured, Starvation, The Critic, etcetera.

Emailed JPEG Kiss Goodnight, 2016, by Tabitha Soren

When picking works for your Curator’s Wishlist, did you observe a pattern in the artworks you selected?

Sure! I found that I am specifically drawn to ambient and shadowy lighting, a moody palette, figuration, uncommon reflections, and operates with historical references.

Backstage Cabaret, Balloon Girls, 2019, by Kate McCrickard

What was the very first do the job of art you at any time collected?

I have a couple of is effective I cherish that have been specified to me around the decades. A single piece that will make me smile is a landscape by the beautiful New York-primarily based artist Nicole Wittenberg.

Alchemy, 2021, by Andrea Solaja

What intervals or artwork actions through historical past are you drawn to?

Extremely tricky to choose, while I will attempt! I love the Pre-raphaelites, early pictures, the Bloomsbury team, and have constantly experienced a comfortable spot for Gertrude Stein’s milieu of avant-garde Parisians at rue de Fleurus. 

For my Courtauld dissertation, I interpreted portraits of Stein and established out to analyse her affect on up to date lifestyle. I find her creative rhetoric amusing ‘a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.’

Research immediately after Turner’s The Drop of Anarchy (2020) by Adam Reid

How do the London or New York art scenes vary?

They are really unique and I really like them both equally. I will usually have an appreciation for New York because that was the place I uncovered to curate my possess reveals. The metropolis breeds an optimistic frame of mind that led me to acquire on each individual undertaking that arrived my way, which was very challenging function but equally worthwhile. There are unlimited exhibitions to see and most nights I experienced conflicting commitments, but I enjoyed the intensity of the scene. 

In London, people are still enthusiastic and ambitious, but I’ve found there is an added kindness that resonates with me. People in the London art environment also are inclined to be a lot more tuned into the worldwide art scene and embrace a world-wide viewpoint, which is excellent. In New York, I observed every thing all the time, whereas in London attending shows feels considerably much more deliberate. Maybe it is a little bit of excellent as opposed to amount.

In My Head, I See A Line, 2018, by Yannis Guibinga

Who are a handful of of your favourite artists on the platform?

Andrea Solaja, Kate McCrickard, Geoffrey Ansel Agrons, and Yannis Guibinga.

Earth Collection – Southern Ocean 4, 2020, by Philip Maltman

What fascinating initiatives do you have on the horizon?

My piece on NFTs and women of all ages not long ago came out in print for Hunger Journal, which was a labour of appreciate. I was picked by the educational periodical Woman’s Artwork Journal to review Suzanne Valadon: Design, Painter, Rebel- this will be published in the coming months. Cultured Magazine just despatched me to Turkey to write an article on the artwork of Bodrum- need to be out subsequent week. I am in conversations for a number of curatorial tasks for autumn, which I am fired up about! Any future happenings will be posted about on my Instagram @emiediamond.