The Spaces Between - an interview with Emily Meilleur
Continuing IAWN's coverage of Helfa Gelf's YMYL-2-EDGE, an exciting creative programme that involves fusing art and tech in exciting new ways, we are pleased to present the final in a series of interviews with the participants. Emily Meilleur is an experimental art adventurer and botanist who also runs a community heritage orchard as part of her role as the Senior Biodiversity Officer for Gwynedd Council. Here she talks with Edge2 Curator, Remy Dean . Hello, Emily, could you please briefly introduce your creative practice and describe your approach to making art? My creative practice starts with thinking, looking and experimenting. I use paper, pens, photographs, video and found objects. I have been exploring the edges of lines, the boundary between one thing and another. Through harnessing natural forces, such as wind, a line between control and chaos can be made. As an ecologist and botanist I have been studying the natural world, its complexity, connectivity a
