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BIOGRAPHY
Through dedication and a passion for her craft Emma’s 20-year career has evolved from beginnings as a children’s face painter and qualified hairdresser and make-up artist, to a body illustrator and visual artist of world acclaim.
In March 2001, Emma won the coveted 1st prize at the CIDESCO World Congress Professional World Body Painting Championship in Hong Kong. With Emma’s co-ordination assistance, the event was held in Adelaide the following year.
In 2004, The Adelaide Cabaret Festival utilised Emma’s exhibition skills to feature a collection of celebrities painted as their cabaret persona as an exhibition during the festival. Emma’s portraits of celebrity chef personalities Ian Parmenter, Geoff Jansz and Jason Roberts feature at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra. In 2005 Emma collaborated with Deborah Paauwe in her Dark Fables collection, featuring Emma’s illustration on the faces of Paauwe’s subjects.
Emma’s Wallpaper 2005, 2007 and 2008 collections feature Florence Broadhurst wallpaper designs combined with her body illustration. Continuing the series in 2008, Emma introduced live native Australian animals into her work, presenting a unique challenge to her imagery and creative process. The works were exhibited during the Adelaide Fringe Festival, along with nude landscapes and a continued collection of Florence Broadhurst wallpapers. It was during this collection she began photographing the installations herself, evolving her talents further. Emma’s photographic images were exhibited at Art Sydney 08, and she was recipient of the people’s choice Renault New Generation Art Award at this event.
Keen to continue her professional development and explore new mediums, Emma travelled to China to participate in a large linstallation for Mont Blanc. While there she travelled to Jingdezhen, where she visited and was trained by artisans in the art of porcelain painting and met with her peers to discuss techniques. The result is a stunning collection of porcelain busts; a collaboration with ceramicists Gus Clutterbuck and Andrew Stock, which demonstrates her diversity across varied artistic mediums.
In 2009 Emma created the Panoramic Bodies collection, shot on location in the South Australian Outback. A team of acrobats and models was complied to create unique body forms in the striking natural landforms. The collection was exhibited as part of the Adelaide Fringe Festival 2009 at the Adelaide Airport Terminal (T1) and featured three metre wide panoramic images. Later in 2009 she was invited to attend the world’s largest textile design fair, the prestigious Premiere Vision, an international expo held in Paris, where she created a live installation on site by blending the human body seamlessly into a textile design with body painting techniques. Emma’s collection of Wallpaper images were also shown throughout the expo on large screens.
In her most recent collection, Native Mandalas, 2009, Emma Hack has created striking circular background designs into which her models are camouflaged, each holding a native Australian bird, reptile or mammal. Emma has created an environment which bears significance to the species, providing a safe haven into which it is nestled, and demonstrating the unique beauty of flora and fauna that is quintessentially Australian.

Goanna in Sturt Desert Rose

2009
Mixed Medium - Photography/Body art/Acrylic on canvas
120x120cm & 80x80cm

Joey in Kangaroo Paw

2009
Mixed Medium - Photography/Body art/Acrylic on canvas
120x120cm & 80x80cm

Squirrel Glider in Native Bouquet

2009
Mixed Medium - Photography/Body art/Acrylic on canvas
120x120cm & 80x80cm

Kookaburra in Feather Wheel

2009
Mixed Medium - Photography/Body art/Acrylic on canvas
120x120cm & 80x80cm

Sulpher Crested Cockatoo in Wattle Spiral

2009
Mixed Medium - Photography/Body art/Acrylic on canvas
120x120cm & 80x80cm

Baby Owl in Pine Needles

2009
Mixed Medium - Photography/Body art/Acrylic on canvas
120x120cm & 80x80cm

Black Cockatoo in Grevillea

2009
Mixed Medium - Photography/Body art/Acrylic on canvas
120x120cm & 80x80cm

Unity - Panoramic Bodies

2009
Mixed Medium - Photography/Body art
150x75cm & 270x135cm

Optimism - Panoramic Bodies

2009
Mixed Medium - Photography/Body art
150x75cm & 270x135cm

The Drop - Panoramic Bodies

2009
Mixed Medium - Photography/Body art
150x75cm & 270x135cm

Wallpaper Black Cockatoos

2008
Mixed Medium - Photography/Body art
110x110cm & 70x70cm

Wallpaper Exotic Bird II

2008
Mixed Medium - Photography/Body art
110x110cm & 70x70cm