Emma
Gannon

Hostie Fruits

Hostile Fruits is a body of work that responds to an old, abandoned orchard near Emma’s home, in the west of Ireland. Through her gestural paintings she is concerned with nature, particularly feminine chaos in nature alongside a search for existential meaning through aesthetic experience.

The orchard was a place of order and cultivation that has been left to decay, grow and change. The push and pull between chaos and order, life and death, darkness and light form a hostility in the environment that is intimate, visceral and inevitable. Emma’s work responds impulsively to this unquiet landscape, using ambiguous shapes that sow seeds of uncertainty, strange and sometimes unnatural colours and incorporates text that reflects her experience of this environment.