This new body of work brings together different strands of Emily Moore’s practice, drawing on visual languages that have emerged at different points throughout her work. Mountainous landscapes are brought into conversation with architecture, fencing and geometric structures, alongside photographic fragments, graphic forms and increasingly gestural passages of paint.
A return to screen-printing has allowed Moore to reintroduce architectural imagery while exploring new ways of translating and fragmenting her photographs. As the works develop through successive layers of print, paint and drawing, familiar imagery shifts between representation and abstraction.
Made in anticipation of a forthcoming residency in Portugal, the works reflect a conscious desire to push beyond familiar ways of working. Rather than marking a departure, the exhibition sees previously distinct aspects of Moore’s practice converge, creating new relationships between landscape and architecture, representation and abstraction, precision and gesture, and ultimately, control and uncertainty.
Emily Moore: New Terrain runs from 03 to 31 October 2026 at Edinburgh’s &Gallery on Dundas Street. Admission to the exhibition is free.
