Emma Depares is a Sydney-based artist living and practising on Dharug land. She handcrafts and seeks sustainable/alternative methods of art-making to document the landscape. Her practice spans photomedia, printmaking and textiles, allowing her to explore the intricate relationships between place and materiality. Responsibly collecting and foraging is a key element of her practice, using materials from the environment to co-create with the landscape.

Alternative photographic methods, including developing with plant-based developers in the darkroom, enable her to make more sustainable and conscious decisions in her art practice while embracing the unique effects of co-creating with nature.

Her latest project, ‘Darkroom Diaries: The Sustainable Darkroom’ takes her on the journey of building a sustainable darkroom and photographic garden, which will be used to harvest plant-based developers. This project is proudly being funded by Blacktown Arts and Blacktown City Council as part of the Blacktown City Creative Arts Fund.