Emma Roche lives and works in Gorey, Wexford. She was a 2023 Artist in Residence at the Sam and Adele Golden Foundation, New York. She recently received the inaugural Lady Grantchester Prize as part of the John Moore’s Painting Prize at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 2023. She is the 2021 recipient of the EMERGENCE Award, Wexford Arts Centre; Arts Council of Ireland Bursary Award, 2021 and 2020, and the Creative Ireland Bursary Award, 2020. Recent exhibitions include Lined Out, Mermaid Arts Centre, Wicklow (2023); Spiders and Cheerleaders, The Complex, Dublin (2021), Ochre, a two-person show with Ciara Roche, Wexford Arts Centre (2021); and Forward Slash at the LAB Gallery, Dublin (2018). Selected group shows include The John Moore’s Painting Prize Exhibition, Walker Gallery, Liverpool, (2023); Generation ‘22, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny (2022); We Are Fetishists, Small Night Zine, Garter Lane, Waterford (2022), Women Can’t Paint, Turps Gallery, London (2018); and Turps Cloud, Turps Gallery, London, (2018).