Collection: Emma Ellis-Brown

Emma Ellis-Brown is a Cape Town based artist whose practice emerges from a mixture of voyeurism, sociology and aesthetic self indulgence. The artist uses pen and her own memory to steal moments from people deeply engaged in their day to day lives.

'I find great joy in the private moments that people have in public places. When people forget that they are being watched, we see who they really are. Their pretence disappears.'

Emma's work gives us a feeling of seeing strangers in a public space and the sonderous realisation that the emotions on their faces reflect entire lifetimes of immeasurable complexity.