Emily Ebbs

Emily Ebbs (B.1998) is an award winning artist based and practising on Gadigal Land. Emily recently won the Paddington Art Prize 2025. She has been a finalist in the Mosman art prize (2023) and the Blacktown City Art prize (2025). She has also won the Tweed Regional Gallery and Margaret Olly Art Centre Nancy Fairfax (AIR) award, 2022. Ebbs also won the Prix Yves Hernot painting award, 2022. Emily had held numerous Solo Exhibitions and is apart of collections all over Australia, Europe and the US.

Emily Ebbs’ process based practice evokes the emotional residue of trauma. She focuses on the idea of the stain. The stain shows signs of something marked or discoloured that is difficult to remove where she finds it is closely linked to the idea of trauma. It is in the staining of materials, the tearing up of unfinished or unwanted works and stitching them together with new fabric that make up her process. Her work is a way of reflecting on her past experiences where art making can aid in recovering from trauma.