Emily is an award-winning Maltese-Australian artist based in The Moreton Bay Region of Queensland. Working across installation, sculpture, text, weaving and embroidery, she invites audiences to critically explore the role of the body in negotiating connections to place, memory and identity. Her work frequently references the dimensions of her own body as a way of processing personal experiences with these themes.

Central to McGuire’s experimental approach is her use of repetition and assemblage as compositional strategies. She uses these devices alongside sewing, wrapping and weaving techniques to embed tension and urgency into complex, ambivalent narratives around femininity, ownership, power and desire.

Her studio is located on unceded Turrbal and Jagera land.