Emmally Parsons is a multidisciplinary visual and sound artist with a diverse background across the creative industries. Her past roles have included textile and print designer, screen printer, trend forecaster, creative consultant, music journalist, creative workshop facilitator and educator, set designer and fabricator, web developer, and curator.
She holds a BA (Hons) in ‘Textiles with Business Studies’, specialising in Print, from Brighton University. Since 2017, she has worked as a freelance creative and designer across various industries—producing textiles and print designs for fashion, interiors, and soft furnishings for brands such as ‘Zandra Rhodes’, ‘IKEA’, ‘Happy Socks’, and ‘Levi’s’. Emmally has also developed websites for independent brands, delivered educational creative workshops in schools for charities, curated pop-up shops, and designed sets for prestigious music venues such as ‘KOKO’ and ‘KOKO Electronica’, London, as well as festivals like ‘We Out Here’, Dorset, UK, and installations for the ‘London Festival of Architecture’.
In her personal artistic practice, Emmally creates works primarily in print and textile installation. Her work is consistently inspired by the unconventional, the weird, and the often-overlooked and uncommercialised aspects of life. With a deep interest in philosophy, she explores forgotten subcultures and the experimental spirit of the avant-garde. Her artworks often carry an underlying poetic and witty quality, telling untold stories that encourage inward reflection on the human condition.
Emmally’s graduate collection, ‘Queer As Folk’, was an acclaimed series of textile and print works exploring the intersection of her Romany heritage and queer identity. It received widespread recognition, including a feature in ‘Dazed’ magazine and inclusion in the ‘Hysterical’ group exhibition at ‘Bermondsey Project Space’, London, in 2024.
She has also participated in several group shows across the UK, including ‘Safehouse 1’ (London), ‘Studio 20’ (Norwich), and ‘Bermondsey Project Space’ (London), among others.
Alongside her visual practice, Emmally is active in the experimental music scene. Since 2021, she has worked as a DJ and broadcaster, hosting shows on London stations such as ‘Soho Radio’ and ‘Voices Radio’. For the past five years, she has also worked as a freelance music journalist, contributing to independent London music publications such as ‘Moof Magazine’. Her live DJ sets have been featured at notable UK venues, clubs, galleries, and festivals, including prominent London venues such as ‘EartH’, ‘Omeara’, and ‘Electrowerkz’.
During the 2020 lockdown, she developed the interview series ‘Life In Lockdown’, published via ‘Moof Magazine’, spotlighting subcultural music icons’ lives throughout the pandemic. Interviews included the likes of ‘Martin Newell’ (‘The Cleaners from Venus’), ‘Oli Burslem’ (‘YAK’, ‘Beguiling Junior’), and featured the London, UK premiere of ‘The Jangling Man’.
In her personal solo music project, ‘e.m.arson’, she is a DIY, improvisational noise musician who creates soundscapes and compositions. Using field recordings, experimental guitar, homemade instruments crafted from found objects, and poetic narration, she produces immersive pieces designed for film and sonic environments.
Emmally’s work has been featured in publications including ‘Vogue’, ‘Dazed’, ‘BRICKS’, ‘i-D’, ‘Wallpaper’, ‘Dezeen’, and ‘The World of Interiors’.
SELECTED CLIENTS:
Zandra Rhodes / IKEA / Happy Socks / Burberry / Vivienne Westwood / The Sanderson Group /
FARFETCH / Selfridges / Converse / AUNÉ / Soft Skin Latex / NTS Radio / KOKO, Electronica - London, UK /
We Out Here Festival - Dorset, UK. / Chatsworth House, UK.