Emily Jo Eldridge

Although originally from the United States, Emily spent most of the last 15 years living overseas. After graduating with a BFA in Illustration from The Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD) in 2004, she moved to Hong Kong where she worked for more than 10 years as an Artist-in-Residence at an inter- national school.

She moved to Barcelona, Spain, in 2016 to study a Master’s in Creative Illustration from BAU Centro Universi- tario de Diseño and completed a second Master’s in Graphic Design from EINA Centro Universitario de Diseño y Arte in 2018. Later she moved to Berlin, Germany in early 2019.

Her creative work spans a variety of media — from murals to street art, editorial illustration, graphic design, neon signs, and more. She was always fascinated by street art and murals, since first discovering the work of Barry McGee and Margaret Kilgallen in Anthem Magazine in 2004, while still in art school. She loved Margaret’s powerful oversized women painted on the San Francisco streets — something that has subconsciously influenced her work in a strong way in the years following. Nevertheless, she always consid- ered street art to be a “boys’ game” — until moving to Barcelona in 2016, where she started experimenting with painting in the street. “I loved the free- dom and speed at which I could complete a piece — finally exploring my own work for myself, and not for a client. In a very short amount of time, I gained a completely new skill and I was able to take the leap to working as a full-time artist in early 2019”.

Now she works on both illustration and design work, as well as murals, street
art, and other creative projects. She feels strongly about representing women in a positive way in her work, as well as being a woman working within the field of street art.

In her residency at B-Murals, she hopes to further her artistic exploration through devoting time to create a body of work revolving around these topics. She intends to create an immersive installation of paintings, murals and objects in the residency space - culminating in a mini-expo (health codes permitting) which could be visited through invitation. She plans to continue her exploration of the female figure - aspects of her daily life, her thoughts, stories, heart- breaks, Tinder misadventures, friendships, fashions, passions, dreams, and more. This will be realized through paintings on paper and found objects, temporary wall murals within the space, and possibly large-scale murals on the outer walls at Nau Bostik.

Con B-Murals, fue seleccionado para el proyecto participativo y comunitario TIME de Trinitat Nova, y pintó en el mismo barrio de la Trinitat Nova.