Emilia Telese - Biography


Emilia Telese is an Italian-born crossover artist based in Brighton, UK.

Born in Sarno, Italy, in 1973. Her family has its roots in the towns of Angri and Tramonti, both in the Campania region of Italy, and the city of Foggia in Apulia.

After a BAhons degree in Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence in 1996, moved to the UK in 1997.

Alongside her practice as an artist, she also works as Artists' Networks Coordinator for a-n The Artist Information Company and as a freelance art writer and trainer in artists' survival skills.


She has been involved as project manager and assistant director in several UK art organisations in the UK and stage and costume designer for a number of theatres in London.

Selected work in collaboration with Tim Mark Didymus is also collected at www.shingtactical.com

Statement

Curiosity for transformation is the driving force in my work. My concern is with art as ever-changing communication - a dynamic language varying with its message.I have been interested in non-verbal communication in society and art since the start of my practice in 1996. I believe that good art should not provide answers, but instigate questions and change lives through continuing conversations with society"

Sound bites:

My work focuses on the way the mind and body are affected and transformed by external elements and impulses, and the inter-relation between intimate consciousness and public perception.

"I never liked the term "multimedia artist", because I found it too simplistic and almost reductive. You can of course imply that multi-media means multiple media, where a medium is anything from a pencil to a processor. But that term ended up defining people who make cd-rom art, or digital art, or net art, as the main aspect of their practice. My work often engages with electronic media, in the form of interactive technology, film, audio and net-based art, but I also use low-tech media like performance, visual arts, design, and more. I use different media according to the most suitable ones needed to create particular projects. I decided to use the term "cross-over artist" because I work across artforms. I could say I am like a swiss knife artist, an artist who crosses over different means of expression to find the most appropriate one according to need and inclination."

Selected recent work