Emme Orbach is an Australian, Naarm (Melbourne) born artist currently practicing in Tamaki Makaurau, Aotearoa. She completed a Bachelor (Hons) in Fine Art at RMIT in 2014. Emme has exhibited at Melbourne Museum, Moreland City Council, City of Greater Dandenong, Stockroom Kyneton, Anita Traverso Gallery, Pitch Music and Arts Festival, Blindside and Rubicon ARI. In 2020 Emme's work was featured in the ABC Science docuseries Phenomena.
“I enable systems of nature to grow upon my sculptures. Allowing crystals to take over and dictate the aesthetic of the artwork over time.”
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EMME ORBACH, B. 1990, MELBOURNE
EDUCATION
RMIT Melbourne, Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons.), Sculpture, 2014
ACU Melbourne, Bachelor of Visual Arts & Design, 2012
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Crystal Landscapes, Museum of Pitch Music & Arts, Pitch Music & Arts Festival, Grampians
2018 In Case of Emergency, Stockroom Gallery, Kyneton
2018 Broken, Visitor Gallery, Melbourne
2015 NH₄H₂PO₄ (residue building systems), Rubicon ARI, Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Leftovers of a Ghost, Counihan Gallery Moreland City Council, Melbourne
2021 Negative Capability, Veils of Cirrus, MARFA Gallery, Melbourne
2021 Worlds Immersive - Learning Lab, Melbourne Museum
2019 Feast, Stockroom Gallery, Kyneton
2019 Rent, Children’s Ground Fundraiser, Melbourne
2017 A Thousand Year Stare, Curated by Sam Leach, Chamber Presents Gallery, Melbourne
2017 Summer 40, Rubicon ARI, Melbourne
2016 OCEAN/OCEANO, Hilo Galeria, Buenos Aries, Argentina.
2016 Art for Change Charity Auction, YGAP, Melbourne
2016 Tributaries BVAD Alumni Exhibition, Australian Catholic University Melbourne Gallery
2015 A Finer Detail, The Lost Ones Contemporary Art Gallery, Ballarat
2015 The Things That Scared Me This Morning Are Over Now, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne University
2015 Season 2: AT_Salon, Anita Traverso Gallery, Melbourne
2015 Found Calm & Kultuuur Exhibitions, Easey Street Studios Gallery, Melbourne
2015 Debut XI, Blindside Gallery, Melbourne
2014 Details, RMIT Fine Art Honours Graduate Exhibition, RMIT School of Art Gallery, Melbourne
2014 The Iconoclasts, NotFair Satellite Art Fair, Melbourne
2012 256 Portraits of Aung Sun Suu Kyi Exhibition, McGlade Gallery, Australian Catholic University, Sydney
2010 Kodak Salon, Centre of Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2010 Gertrude Street Projection Festival, The Gertrude Association, Melbourne
FILMS
2021 Artwork for Matter episode in Worlds an Arts Documentary by filmmaker Josef Gatti, supported by Screen Australia, the ABC, and Film Victoria, and produced by Rob Innes from Mashup Pictures.