Emma Cousin

Bafflers

Year 2022
Medium Watercolour and pencil on paper
Dimensions 29.5 x 21 cm

About the work

After watching squirrels trying to get nuts from a bird feeder I made this drawing – reflecting on physical restraint, ingenious bodily adaptations to render things possible or impossible and consider the psychological and social ‘bafflers’ we subject ourselves to and experience.

Date and country of birth

1986, GB

Career Highlights

Recently exhibitions: Niru Ratman Gallery London (2024); Rhona Hofmann Gallery, (2023); Chicago, Xiao Museum, Suzhou, China (2022); Vesthone Kunstlaboratorium, Norway (2022); Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London (2020); Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (2020); Jerwood Arts (2019); Milton Keynes Art Centre (2019).