Emma Ainsley

Currently focused on developing a collaborative practice with musician John Phillips. Ainsley is an artist working in video and sound. Phillips is a trumpet player, composer and artist. They work collaboratively to produce video and performance work that brings art and music together. For the last twenty years they have been collaborating together, making darkly humorous songs and videos, producing objects to form costumes for performance to camera, playfully seeking to meld art and music both as practices and as approaches to making. Influenced by many years working in care environments, the work embraces a love of vulnerable, intimate connection with strangers, and the painful, dark humour found in adversity. Fife, Scotland