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Year

Project

Client

Service

2023
A Field Guide for Stargazing
Mess Books, Perth Festival
Creative Production, Editing, Publishing

Commissioned by Perth Festival and published by Mess Books, 'A Field Guide for Stargazing' is a companion to and compendium of the festival's 2023 Visual Arts Program.

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2022
Chorus
Jordy Hewitt
Writing

Exhibition essay for Jordy Hewitt's "Chorus" at The Mark, Perth, WA.

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2022
Penumbra
Ian Strange
Creative Production

Penumbra is a collection of site-specific, architectural light interventions and photographic works made by Ian Strange in Cincinnati, OH, accompanied by a body of research and archive materials.

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2022
Lester 22
Mess Books
Editing, Publishing

A new exhibition companion and a celebration of the portraiture art form co-published by Mess Books and The Lester Prize, featuring artist contributions and original writing from National Portrait Gallery curator Penny Grist and Boorloo/Perth-based curator and writer Gemma Weston.

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2022
Never At Sea
Kate McMillan
Creative Production

An upcoming series of collaborative, immersive live performances and an exhibition, directed by contemporary artist Kate McMillan, at St Mary le Strand Church, London in March 2023.

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2021–2022
Dalison
Ian Strange
Creative Production, Writing, Film Production

Creative and story production for Ian Strange's large-scale architectural intervention and film work, "Dalison".

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2021
The View From Here
The Art Gallery of Western Australia
Creative Production, Writing, Film Production

Writing, production and story direction on a series of documentary shorts about Western Australian artists for AGWA.

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2021
AGWA Paper
The Art Gallery of Western Australia
Creative Production, Editing, Writing, Publishing

Edited and produced the pilot issue of AGWA Paper, a new arts broadsheet conceptualised for The Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA).

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2021
Paradise
Daniel Dorsa
Writing

Biographic and didactic text for New York City photographer Daniel Dorsa and his book "Paradise" (Pomegranate Press).

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2021
One Another
Tonje Thilesen
Writing

Biographic and didactic text for New York City-based photographer Tonje Thilesen and their book "One Another" (Pomegranate Press).

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2021
Candids 21/22
Personal Project
Photography

A collection of photographs taken between 2021 and 2022 in Western Australia.

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2021
Wish You Were Here
Emma Regolini
Photography, Writing

Exhibition essay and photographic documentation for artist Emma Regolini's debut solo exhibition at Pig Melon, Perth, Australia.

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2021
Trunk
Olive Gill-Hille
Photography, Writing

Exhibition essay and photographic documentation for Olive Gill-Hille's debut solo exhibition with Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert in Sydney, Australia.

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2021
Showroom Photography
Mobilia
Photography

Photographic documentation of Mobilia's Claremont showroom, highlighting global design brands such as Cassina, Fritz Hansen and Memphis Milano.

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2020–2022
Portraits
Various
Photography, Art Direction

An assortment of photographic portraiture from both commissions and personal projects.

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2020
Modern Minimalism
Man-tle
Writing

Essay on the work of Larz Harry and Aida Kim, co-founders of clothing brand Man-tle, held in the archives of The Art Gallery of Western Australia.

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2020
The Myths That Made Me
Personal Project; "Co-ordinates" Exhibition
Photography

An ongoing photographic series exploring connection to home and rural Australian identity. Early works from the series were shown in the group exhibition Co-ordinates, curated by Karl Kalliday and Henry King, at Pig Melon in Perth, Australia.

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2019–2020
Candids 19/20
Personal Project
Photography

A collection of photographs taken between 2019 and 2020 across Western Australia, Europe and in Beijing.

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Emma Pegrum is a journalist, creative editor, photographer and multifaceted producer who works across a variety of editorial, publishing and interdisciplinary artistic projects. Across five years of freelance journalism, Emma has written profiles and features covering the arts, culture and society for titles including The Saturday Paper, T Australia: The New York Times Style Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, UNION Magazine, Broadsheet Media and Fabric Quarterly. She is currently the editor of The Luxury Report, a quarterly magazine interested in the arts and culture, design, architecture, business and economics, publishing some of Australia’s most respected journalists. Emma has previously worked as a commissioning editor and photo editor for numerous independent publications, and in 2021 edited and produced the pilot issue of AGWA Paper, an arts broadsheet conceptualised for the Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA) that featured contributions from the likes of Neha Kale (former editor, Vault), Claire G. Coleman (author, Terra Nullius and Lies, Damned Lies), Simon Webster (The New Yorker, The Saturday Paper), Sisonke Msimang (author, Always Another Country: A Memoir of Exile and Home and The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela), Kelly Fliedner (un Magazine, Semaphore) and Tristen Harwood (The Saturday Paper, The Monthly).

In 2022, Emma co-founded Mess Books, a publisher and creative practice interested in contemporary art and photography, design, architecture and society.

Emma specialises in working with a diverse range of collaborators across editorial, design, film, digital media, communications, academia and the visual arts to produce large-scale creative projects, with her own background in journalism, writing and visual storytelling ensuring a cohesive end result. She currently works with Melbourne artist Jessie French, producing various interdisciplinary creative collaborations through French’s studio, Other Matter. Emma also produced the two most recent works of renowned transdisciplinary artist Ian Strange, which have been exhibited around the world.

Emma’s narrative-driven photographic practice explores contemporary Australian identities, themes of place and nostalgia and relationship dynamics. She was a finalist in the National Portrait Gallery’s National Photographic Portrait Prize 2022.

Contact

Email

mail@emmapegrum.com

Instagram

@emmapegrum

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Services

Journalism, writing and editing; photography; creative, film and arts production; creative direction and concept development; publishing.

Press

National Portrait Gallery — Finalists for the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2022.

Emma's projects have been featured in national and international press.

Sydney Morning Herald, February 26, 2022
Haunting artwork evokes the neighbourhood that didn’t need to disappear.
This article was first published in Spectrum, The Age, and also appeared online for The Age, Brisbane Times and WA Today.

Design Boom, March 2, 2022
Ian Strange & Trevor Powers to release short film as eulogy for isolated Australian house
.

Selected Clients

The Saturday Paper / T Australia: The New York Times Style Magazine / Harper's Bazaar / Union Magazine / Broadsheet Media / Vogue Living / Fabric Quarterly / Pipette Magazine / Gourmet Traveller / Australian Traveller / The Art Gallery of Western Australia / Jessie French / Ian Strange / Tonje Thilesen / Daniel Dorsa / Olive Gill-Hille (Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert) / Jordy Hewitt / Emma Regolini (Pig Melon) / Mobilia / Museum of Freedom and Tolerance