Emily Spooner is a visual artist based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. She holds a BFA in Painting and Drawing from Concordia University (2020) and has since attended artist residencies across Canada and in Iceland. Her work has been presented in various group exhibitions and projects across Québec. At the core of Spooner’s artistic practice is intuitive creation, through which she gives form to the stories and symbols that emerge from both conscious and unconscious levels of understanding. She works primarily in painting, often adorning pieces with sculptural elements created through traditional jewelry- making techniques. She approaches the process of painting as a form of storytelling—layers of imagery and texture build upon each other and interact, shaping the work’s narrative. Though many of these layers remain obscured in the final composition, they are essential to the totality of the painting. Spooner’s imagery is sourced from quick sketchbook drawings and her collection of amateur photographs, including her own family archive and discarded images from flea markets and digital repositories. She intuitively reworks and combines these sources through a process of transformation: images are translated into quick tonal line drawings, selectively cut into stencils, and layered over each other to construct abstracted, interwoven compositions. Emily Spooner est une artiste visuelle basée à Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. Diplômée en beaux-arts (peinture et dessin) de l’Université Concordia en 2020, elle a depuis participé à plusieurs résidences d’artistes au Canada et en Islande. Son travail a été présenté dans diverses expositions collectives et projets à travers le Québec. Au cœur de la pratique d’Emily Spooner se trouve un processus de création intuitive, où récits et symboles émergent entre conscience et inconscient. Travaillant principalement la peinture, elle y intègre des éléments sculpturaux inspirés de techniques de joaillerie, abordant l’image comme un récit construit par strates, visibles ou non, d’images et de textures. Son iconographie naît de croquis spontanés et de photographies amateurs — archives familiales, images trouvées ou glanées — qu’elle transforme en dessins linéaires, découpés en pochoirs et superposés pour composer des œuvres abstraites et entrelacées.