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Emily O'Hara

(she/her)
Senior Lecturer, Spatial Design + Temporary Practices, Auckland University of Technology

Spatial designer Emily O’Hara has an interdisciplinary practice fluctuating between performance, object, sculpture, photography and moving image. Her research circulates around questions of temporality, spatiality and connection. Her practice emerges through works that often operate in an extended duration, and relate to the everyday, particularly to the rhythms and repetitions of life and death. She is interested in ideas of the feminine, the maternal and the domestic, and the ways in which regular everyday registers (such as the moon, bodies of water, rocks, salt, fog and fire) can offer a space through which to think about inter-generational and inter-spatial connection.

Experience

  • –present
    Lecturer, Spatial Design + Temporary Practices, Auckland University of Technology

Education

  • 2018 
    Auckland University of Technology, Doctor of Philosophy