Emily Tonge is an interdisciplinary artist, working across sculpture, fashion, and performance. Her practice explores how gendered systems are embodied by materials and structures in proximity to the human form. She is particularly interested in the lineal spaces and symbolic slippages that occur between the body and these apparatus, where boundaries begin to blur.

From clothing and water to machinery and buildings, Emily’s practise looks at how these forms, shaped by gendered histories, in turn continue shape the body. Drawing on archival research and site-responsive methods, she traces how these systems persist and are continually maintained, shaping contemporary experiences of power and resistance.

Materially, she works between fabric and architecture, exploring the tension between soft, responsive forms and rigid, industrial structures. Through processes such as pattern cutting, drape, and construction, her work brings these elements into tension, producing sculptural forms that sit between garment and infrastructure.

Emily is an artist living and working in Bolton, with an MA from the Royal College of Art (2023), supported by a Burberry Design Scholarship.