Emma Cousin discusses New Dirt, a series of five new paintings, and a site-specific wall drawing that animate ideas around bodily experience, memory and painting. In her images, made during lockdown, Cousin examines dirt and digging for its relation to life cycles, loss, exhaustion, and ideas of being present. Her complex compositions of interrelated female figures explore our reliance on each other as both violent and intimate.

Video by Guy Oliver.

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