Artist Statement

Emily Davidson's artistic practice uses printmaking to investigate the history of leftist political movements, imagine Utopian futures, and agitate for social change. Recently, Davidson’s artistic research has focused on the entangled relationship letterpress printing has as a tool of historic and ongoing colonization across North America, and the formation of settler-colonial states on Indigenous lands. She aims to address the question: What happens when the direct correlation of letterpress to colonialism is articulated, exposed, worked through and worked against? Through this practice, Davidson also explores her own relationship as a white queer woman settler to colonization and to decolonial strategies.

Biography

Emily Davidson is a settler artist, activist and graphic designer based in K’jipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia). Emily graduated from NSCAD University in 2009 (BFA, Interdisciplinary) and is a current MFA candidate at NSCAD. Emily is a recipient of the Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master’s Program in Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).