Emily Cook

Emily Cook has been pursuing research in papermaking since for over a decade. She continued her studied in Toronto, at OCAD and in Louisiana at Louisiana State University where she completed her Masters by creating an installation of sculptures that used the properties of high shrinkage flax and abaca fibres. Her practice includes books arts, large scale sculpture, and pulp painting. She and Flora have been running Paperhouse Studio, an experiential studio rooted in paper and print since 2013.  She teaches in printmaking at OCAD University.

Her current research is focused on the beauty of failing in a big enough way to create something new and beautiful. She is inspired by the work of discredited astronomer Percival Lowell who believed that there was a civilization on Mars that were building canals. He has left behind a legacy of beautiful maps and can e credited with imprinting generations of science fiction.  He also believed Pluto was a planet.

REPORT: Access Working Group

June 22, 2021 - February 15, 2025
an inter-organizational research platform with Critical Distance Centre for Curators, Carleton University Art Gallery, and Tangled Art + Disability With funding from the Canada Council for the Arts, from 2021 to 2023, Critical Distance Centre for Curators (CDCC) initiated and steered an inter-organizational research platform, whose purpose was to advance anFind out more

EXHIBITION: Access is Love and Love is Complicated

October 3, 2019 - December 8, 2019
ACCESS IS LOVE and LOVE IS COMPLICATED Co-curated by Emily Cook and Sean Lee and presented in partnership with Tangled Art+Disability Opening October 3rd from 6–9 pm / On view October 3–December 8, 2019 CRITICAL DISTANCE and TANGLED ART+DISABILITY are pleased to present ACCESS IS LOVE and LOVE IS COMPLICATED,Find out more