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[INTRODUCTION]

Welcome to Jessica Emmett's offical portfolio of work.

I am a freelance artist based in Manchester, UK who explores very raw and personal experiences of being transracially adopted by examining adoption processes and themes surrounding family, race, colonialism and cultural displacement. The foundation of my experimental practice stems from film and photography, which tend to lead to installations, performance and interactive pieces. To find out in more details you can go to the [PRESENT] part of my website.

I was born in Hong Kong and adopted by a British couple that were living there at the time. My birth mother was a Vietnamese refugee boat person who fled to Hong Kong after theVietnam War. I lived in HK for the first 16yrs of my life in which I then moved to the north of England with my adopted family. To find out more details about my adoption you can go to the [PAST] section of my website.

 

[LATEST NEWS]

- I have just made small updates to the website with the addition of a Blog. Check it out at [BLOG].

- My next talk will be in Hong Kong as part of the first ever 3 week long Hong Kong Adoption Festival. I will also be running 2 adoption art workshops while i'm there. This will be my first visit o my birthhome for nearly 10 years... it's so exciting.

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PRESENT

 

Past

 

CV

 

PRESS

 

pink rose

 

stamps

 

paint by numbers

 

rose petal

 

names

 

sock bunnies

 

row your boat

 

my life in the news

 

her mother's daughter

 

candles

 

t-shirts

 

puppets

 

shadow puppets

 

story makers

 

chinese Games

 

stock

 

wedding

 

portraiture

 

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