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Molly Pemberton (b.1999, Derbyshire, UK) is an artist living and working in Sheffield. After recently completing her MFA Degree in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University, she is currently working as the President at Hallam Students’ Union, previously the Social Sciences & Arts College Officer, and the Co-Director at The Drawing Shop (CIC).

Artist Statement

With a heavy emphasis on the handmade, Molly Pemberton’s practice explores the notion in which the escalation in digital technology composes our understanding of reality. She aims to convey how craft-based activities can be utilised to emphasise tactility and materiality; that which separates the handmade from the digital.

Pemberton addresses the proliferation of digital imagery enabled by the availability and immediacy of the Internet and how these images might mediate reality. Influenced by Jean Baudrillard’s writing, recent work has questioned the impact of deteriorating images and information disseminated online, and how such reproductions may transform the meaning of the originals.

Inspired by science fiction and dystopias, related imagery, colour palettes and themes emerge throughout Pemberton’s practice. Typically, work materialises as documentative and durational objects of the colour red. This seeks to highlight the mundanity and monotony as well as, by contrast, the fascinating and formidable extraordinariness of this digital age.