Emilie Flower
Co-investigator, Art Rights Truth Project

Profile

Biography

Emilie’s works as a co-investigator on the Art Rights Truth project at the Centre for Applied Human Rights, and a freelance filmmaker based at Pica artist led studios in York.  Since 2016 she has been a resident artist and coordinator in the AHRC-funded ‘Development Alternatives Research Network’ exploring art, archives and the political imagination in Uganda, Bangladesh and the UK, and worked on the ‘Arctivist’ and ‘Art, Activism and Cultural Archive’ projects, as well as carrying out research for the ESRC funded project ‘Pushing Back’ looking at activist and arts-based resistance strategies.

As a filmmaker, Emilie has worked in film design for theatre, arts and rights based projects. She worked internationally as a participatory video facilitator, and was a founding member and associate at InsightShare, leading field based qualitative, participatory and ethnographic research projects, as well as digital journalism, archival and particiatory evaluation projects for community and government organisations, including Natural England, DFID, UNDP, UNICEF, IIED, and the European Union. 

Emilie is currently researching contemporary arts-based contributions to expanding civic space and the art of political hope, drawing on interdisciplinary work from human rights, anthropology, and critical art history studies.