For the final weekend of our current exhibition The Hidden Line: Art of the Boyd Women, Artist Sarah Goffman invites you to add a name to collaborative artwork EMMA — a family tree adorned with those we hold dear, both the living and the lost.
Inspired by the Japanese Shinto practice of writing prayers or thanksgivings on small wooden plaques known as ‘ema’, the work explores the family tree as a broader network, beyond familial relations.
“The work came as I was writing the names of the Boyd women, and Emma was my three-year-old sister’s name who died in 1972. I felt it was an honouring of her, as well as of all the people we are or who we knew. The leaves represent the fragility of life.”
— Sarah Goffman
