Em Carters Art & Emmy Bones
ABOUT
ART + TEXTILES
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Emily Carters is a Canberra-based Australian artist and maker working across painting, textiles, and wearable art.
Her practice is rooted in storytelling, material history, and the emotional weight objects carry. Through both paintings and garments, she explores themes of memory, identity, womanhood, humour, rebellion, softness, grief, and transformation.
Alongside her painting practice, Emily creates one-of-a-kind wearable pieces under the label Emmy Bones — handmade coats and garments constructed from reclaimed vintage textiles including blankets, curtains, thrifted garments and fabrics. Each piece is individually designed, cut, and sewn in her home studio, often featuring quilted overlays, text, symbols, and recurring motifs that blur the line between clothing and sculpture.
Vision
No two pieces are ever the same.
Her work embraces the visible hand of the maker: small imperfections, repaired histories, softened fibres, faded colours, and evidence of previous lives are intentionally preserved rather than erased. Sustainability is not treated as a trend, but as an extension of the work itself — an ongoing fascination with reuse, sentimentality, and transformation.
Emily’s visual language sits somewhere between folk art, grunge, symbolism, and contemporary. Her paintings and garments are connected by a shared love of texture, bold colour, emotional honesty, and pieces that feel deeply alive.
All work is created slowly and in small batches from her studio in Canberra, Australia.
You can explore available paintings and wearable works through the shop, or follow along with process work, new releases, and studio updates via Instagram.
Thanks, djan yimaba, for being here.
