Emma Louise Woolley is a Birmingham-based multidisciplinary artist whose work explores portraiture, connection, and the emotional space between people.
LATEST NEWS
LATEST NEWS
Emma Woolley’s solo exhibition The Wonder Series opens 8–31 August 2025, hosted by • nook • gallery & studios in Kings Heath, Birmingham.
A bold and emotionally charged body of portrait work exploring the raw intimacy of the human face.
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![Exhibit of futuristic, geometric animal sculptures in a museum, including a large white whale with a prominent nose, with visitors viewing the displays.]()
The best exhibitions to see across Birmingham
Featured in Birmingham Wire, August 2025. Selected as one of the best exhibitions to see across the city, highlighting key artists and shows shaping Birmingham’s cultural scene.
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![A variety of oil paint blobs and strokes in different colors on a wooden palette or surface, arranged in rows from light to dark.]()
Featured in Arts to Hearts Project’s - 5 Oil Painters Who Remind Us Why
Selected as one of five contemporary oil painters celebrated for keeping the medium alive and showing why its power and relevance will never fade.
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![Colorful painting of two women with vibrant hair and clothing, next to text announcing Emma Woolley's shortlisting for the Women in Art Prize 2025 in the Paula Rego Painting Prize category.]()
Shortlisted for the Women in Art Prize 2025
21 July 2025
I’m incredibly honoured to share that my painting The Space Between Us Hashtag 05 has been shortlisted for the Women in Art Prize 2025, in the Paula Rego Painting Prize category.
Work
Sam
Gosia
Drift
Rise
The Pirate
The Space Between Us #07
The Space Between Us #06
The Space Between Us #05
The Space Between Us #04
The Space Between Us #02
The Space Between Us
Tiggy
Riders on the Storm
Emerald City
It's a kind of Magic
Tomorrow Never Knows
The Thinker
Parma Violet
Pan
Boy In The Red Glasses
Qui
Prince
Damian Howell
Self Portrait
Steve Ajao
Zeus, King of the gods
Fluid Strokes
Keith Haring Special
2024 Collection
The Wonder Series captures the awe and curiosity we feel when encountering the extraordinary. Each portrait, with its vibrant colours and dynamic compositions, invites you to reflect on life's mysteries and experience the beauty of the unexpected. Giclée prints of these works, sized at 12” x 16”, are now available for purchase. Each piece is printed on premium Hahnemühle German Etching 310gsm paper, offering a stunning texture and finish. Bring home a piece of wonder and let your space inspire endless exploration and marvel. Shop now!
