Emily Ritchie lives in Glasgow and graduated from Glasgow School of Art with an MLitt in Fine Art Practice in 2023.

Emily Ritchie’s work suggests a waking mind-play, with inner visions superimposed on the ‘real’ world. They can be regarded as versions of flashbacks through montage, where fictional scenarios replay and morph. She writes short stories using a mixture of autofiction, fantasy and drama while simultaneously developing a visual language fed by these texts.

Ritchie deals with human identity, communication and interior worlds and works with combinations of drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, video and audio techniques and processes.

She also gained a BA (Hons) in Drawing and Painting from Edinburgh College of Art in 2005. Recent solo exhibitions include: The Moving Stain at The Deep End, Glasgow (2022), Swamp Things at New Glasgow Society (2019), Cru at Cru, Porto (2016), Ii at IR11, Ocean Terminal, Edinburgh (2016), and ER-KK-II at Taidekeskus KulttuuriKauppila, Ii, Finland (2015).

Group exhibitions and other projects include: The Glasgow School of Art Postgraduate Degree Show at Glasgow School of Art (2023), Art Car Boot Sale at SWG3, Glasgow (2023), Title…Pending at French Street, Glasgow (2023), and when you go take this story at Barnes Work Space, Glasgow (2022), Heavy Duty at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (2019)