Emilie Syme-Lamont

The Interval

61 × 76 cm

Oil on Canvas

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About the work

'The Interval' reflects a moment of pause before taking a new step. The painting depicts a child looking back towards a guardian, capturing a fleeting yet familiar moment in childhood—the gradual movement away from the safety of a parent and towards the wider world. I was interested in the emotional space of this transition: the brief hesitation between dependence and independence, reassurance and uncertainty. It is a universal experience, one that often lingers more vividly in memory than the event itself. Painted loosely and in vivid, surreal colours, the work evokes the quality of a remembered moment or a dream. Rather than documenting a specific scene, The Interval explores the emotional resonance of childhood, where memory, imagination and lived experience become intertwined.

About the artist

Emilie Syme-Lamont (b. 1990) is a painter and multimedia artist currently based out of Naarm / Melbourne, Australia.

Borrowing genre tropes from literary Gothic and cinematic traditions, her work explores ideas of temporal overlap, (mis)remembered happenings and psychologically charged spaces. Emilie draws upon collected materials; images and debris from the mundane and physical world, reshaping them so they become infused with an odd, dreamlike quality.

Belief systems, psychology and recurring cultural phenomena all provide a catalyst for the strange narratives that become her paintings and installations.

Emilie’s practice implies a perspective that is humanistic, yet unsettling and surreal; an exploration of what it feels like to be human in one's darkest or strangest hour. Emilie Syme-Lamont graduated from The National Art School in Sydney and holds an MFA in Drawing and a BFA in Painting. She has held solo exhibitions at M Contemporary (Sydney), Edwina Corlette Gallery (Brisbane) PINCE projects (Budapest) and Incinerator Gallery (Melbourne). Her body of work includes painting, drawing, ceramics, and more recently, sound, silicone, and bookmaking. Her work is held in private collections in Australia, the USA, and Europe, and in the National Art School Archives in Sydney.

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