Emma Hack


Business, Creative Entertainment, Lifestyle | Fashion

AWARD WINNING BODY ARTIST
DIVERSE MULTIMEDIA ARTIST

SERVICES

  • BODY ARTIST and SKIN ILLUSTRATOR
  • PHOTOGRAPHER
  • MAKE-UP ARTIST
  • HAIRDRESSER
  • STYLIST
  • ART INSTALLATIONS
  • SCULPTOR
  • KEYNOTE SPEAKER


ABOUT EMMA HACK

Award winning artist Emma Hack is at the forefront of an art form growing in worldwide popularity.  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 an artist of worldwide acclaim.

In 2000 Emma released her greatly anticipated calendar body.art.00, followed by the 2001 Paralympic calendar, featuring Australia’s top athletes.  Emma’s 2002 celebrity chef’s un-peeled calendar created with Dorinda Hafner, featured Australia’s favourite TV chefs body painted in images reflecting their recipes.

March 2001, Emma won the coveted 1st prize at the CIDESCO World Congress Professional World Body Painting Championship in Hong Kong.  Emma assisted in the co-ordination and success of this event in Adelaide, Australia the following year.

Abroad works include body painting and designing concepts for the Paspaley Pearls and Tiffany & Co store launches in Dubai, Touring Holland and Belgium with renown cabaret Duo Miche en scene, a Playstation 2 commercial in Hong Kong, and the launch of the 2005 ski season in Whistler, Canada.  Within Australia Emma’s client list is extensive, with clients such as Sydney and Melbourne Fashion Weeks, MAC Cosmetics Events, Moet and Hennessy, Women’s Weekly and Greater Union.  See extensive client listing below.

In 2005 Emma collaborated with Deborah Paauwe in her ‘Dark Fables’ collection, featuring Emma’s illustration on the faces of the girls featured.

Emma’s ‘Inspired by Yoga’ calendar, published by East St Publishing was released in 2007 with launches in Adelaide and Sydney to rave reviews.  The launches featured an exhibition of the images, creating much media attention.  The images reflect yoga poses and symbolism in a colourful, feminine style.

The Adelaide Cabaret Festival utilised Emma’s exhibition skills to feature a collection of cabaret artists painted as their cabaret personas in an exhibition during the 2004 festival.  Emma also works on the launches of Cirque du Soliel for Optus, creating their ‘Optus animals’ that entertain the celebrity crowds. 

Emma’s Wallpaper collections feature Florence Broadhurst wallpaper designs mixed with her body illustration.  Emma continues to work blending her ‘wallflowers’ with the beautiful designs of Broadhurst.  Emma’s images were recently featured in a story about Florence on ABC’s Sunday Arts program.

Emma’s 2007 collection, ‘Oriental Delights’, featured wallpaper murals mixed with quirky body art and a collection of Ming vases and nudes.  Emma’s ‘Cowscapes and Painted Ponies’ collections where Emma painted live farm animals, raised awareness for the farmers and the drought with a donated percentage of sales supporting South Australian Farmers Federation. 

Emma’s 2008 collection, featured during the Adelaide Fringe Festival, features exotic Australian animals, nude landscapes and a continued collection of Florence Broadhurst wallpapers.  Emma photographed this collection herself, highlighting her talents further.

In October 2008 at The Weekend Australian Art Sydney, Emma exhibited a collection of Broadhurst wallpaper images featuring a mixture of male and female muses.  Her ‘Beautiful Ways to Die’ collection, inspired by fairytales incorporating framed situations, has also been well received.  For this collection, Emma created intricately painted porcelain busts and a mix of other treasures to project her into the national and international art arenas.

Emma’s portraits of celebrity chef personalities Ian Parmenter, Geoff Jansz and Jason Roberts feature at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra.
  
Keen to continue her professional development and explore new mediums, Emma traveled to China to participate in a large installation for Mont Blanc. While there she traveled 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-meter 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 collections of Wallpaper images were also shown throughout the expo on large screens.

In her most recent collection, Native Mandala, 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.

Emma’s latest edition of the ‘Mandala’ collection is ‘Exotic Mandala’, Emma muse are blended into Art Nouveau inspired, hand painted canvases with butterflies placed onto the human form, creating a fresh, multi layered effect. Emma upcoming collection, Wallpaper Mandala features a clever blend of Broadhurst papers creating a collage effect, into which her muse is blended to create the illusion Emma is renown for.

Creative projects along with worldwide advertising campaigns, corporate events and fashion parades have enabled Emma to develop her own distinctive style, which is now instantly recognisable and highly sought after both at home and abroad.

Emma’s artwork is highly sought after at corporate logo launches and events, Arts Festivals, Advertising Campaigns, Community events and Media Announcements to create unique publicity for her clients in an inventive and spectacular fashion.

Emma’s fine art images are sold through 6 galleries Australia wide.

ADVERTISING

Body art is a powerful way to advertise products and services, using creativity that makes you look twice!

Examples include:

  • Clothing painted on bodies
  • Bodies as imagery and logos depicting products and services
  • Decorated bodies holding products
  • Illusion based camouflage body art used to blend people into backgrounds or appear as objects
  • As an animated sequence moving over body


PRODUCT LAUNCHES, FASHION PARADES & EVENTS

Body art can be used in many forms for events and product launches to gain media attention and create a unique and eye-catching piece of art for guests to talk about.

Examples include:

  • Celebrities and Models painted with logos or designs depicting the products or service launched
  • Dancers and Models painted to the theme of a launch or event (e.g. Jungle, Circus, 80s, Festival, Cabaret, Latin, etc.)
  • Dancers and Models as Statues on podiums
  • Live body art experience: watch as a body is transformed before your eyes
  • Waitresses and bar staff body painted when serving guests
  • Camouflage body art where the bodies are blended into backgrounds and then appear or are painted as a logo or objects (This can be used in multiple bodies forming an image)


FASHION PARADES

Body art can be used in fashion shows to accentuate designs in the form of:

  • Accessories painted onto bodies as ornate and colourful tattoos and body jewellery
  • Stockings painted on where the toes are seen, to create a unique illusion
  • Designers logos can be painted and incorporated into designs
  • Clothing painted as part of an outfit
  • Celebrities painted in designs depicting the designer’s range as a show-stopper
  • Ornamental statues as part of the set design


CLIENT LIST INCLUDES

  • Moet and Hennessy
  • Dom Perignon, Canada
  • Hardy’s
  • Yalumba
  • Optus
  • Telstra
  • Digi, KL
  • Paspaley, Dubai
  • Tiffany & Co, Dubai
  • Mont Blanc, Beijing
  • Raw Pearls
  • Trigger Jeans, India
  • Davenport
  • Schiaparelli Hosiery
  • National Geographic Channel
  • SA Great
  • Adelaide Airport
  • Adelaide Cabaret Festival
  • Sony Playstation, Hong Kong
  • Slazenger
  • M.A.C Cosmetics
  • Tour Down Under
  • SAFM
  • Greater Union
  • Who
  • Inside Sport
  • Woman’s Weekly
  • The Advertiser
  • The Adelaide Magazine
  • ‘Make Me a Supermodel’
  • Premiere Vision, Paris
  • Wild 9 , Mexico
  • Signature Prints


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010     Mandala, Frances Keevil Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2010     Native and Exotic Mandala with Broadhurst Delights, Festival Theatre Foyer, SA
2009     New Works & Past Delights, Gallery 139, Adelaide, SA
2009     Art Sydney 09, Royal Hall of Industries, Sydney, NSW
2009     New Works & Past Delights, Frances Keevil Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2009     New Works & Past Delights, Obscura Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2009     Past Delights – SALA Festival, Burnside Village Shopping Centre, Adelaide, SA
2009     Art Melbourne 09, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC
2009     Panoramic Bodies & Retrospective Works, Adelaide Airport Terminal T1, Adelaide, SA
2008     Recent Works, Art Images Gallery, Adelaide, SA
2008     Art Sydney 08, Royal Hall of Industries, Sydney, NSW
2008     Retrospective Works - SALA Festival, Dare Hair, Adelaide, SA
2008     Retrospective Works, Melrose Gallery, Melrose, SA
2008     body.art.08 @ The Fringe Festival, Tin Cat Gallery and Café, Adelaide, SA
2007     Cowscapes and Painted Ponies, Paxton Winery, McLaren Vale, SA
2007     Cowscapes and Painted Ponies, Tin Cat Gallery and Café, Adelaide, SA
2007     Body Painting Broadhurst, The Arthouse Hotel, Sydney, NSW
2007     Oriental Delights, Tincat Gallery and Café, Adelaide, SA
2006     Yoga Collection, The Arthouse Hotel, Sydney, NSW
2006     Yoga Collection, Tincan Gallery and Café, Adelaide, SA
2005     body.art.05, Tincat Galley and Café, Adelaide, SA
2004     Adelaide Cabaret Festival, The Arthouse Hotel, Sydney, NSW
2004     Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, SA
2003     Retrospective works, The Arthouse Hotel, Sydney, NSW
2003     Retrospective works, FAD Gallery, Adelaide, SA
2002     Petal Collection, Warehouse, Sydney, NSW
2002     Petal Collection, To Relish Restaurant, Adelaide, SA
1999     body.art.00, The Royal Hotel, Adelaide, SA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBIITONS

2010     Summer Group Show, Manyung Gallery, Mt Eliza, VIC
2010     Group Show, Frances Keevil Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2009     Xmas Group Show, Glenferrie Rd Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2009     Fashion as Art, Manyung Gallery, Mt Eliza, VIC
2009     Works on Paper, Francis Keevil Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2008     Retrospective Works, Brunswick St Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2008     Retrospective Works, Art Moments Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2008     Retrospective Works, Marie Hart Galleries, Adelaide, SA 
2007     Catwalk Exhibition, Tincat Gallery, Adelaide, SA
2004     Erotica Exotica, Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide, SA
2002     Petal Collection, Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide, SA

COLLECTIONS

National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, ACT
Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, SA

PRESS

Emma Hack has received considerable national and international press this year with stories featured in papers such as New York Daily, UK Telegraph, The Mirror, The UK Sun, China Daily, Spanish People Daily, CCTV, The Advertiser, Tasmanian Mercury, and Sydney Morning Herald.

Emma has also featured in many design magazines worldwide including ‘Platform’ magazine, India, ‘Le Tabure’ Magazine, Russia, ‘Home Concepts’ magazine, Singapore and ‘Home Journal’,  Hong Kong.

Emma’s works are also featured in many trend and fashion blogs throughout the world.  Recently featured in Trendhunter.com:

“Artist Emma Hack, who lives in Australia, creates really gorgeous designs utilizing female models that she successfully blends in with their surroundings.  The effect is beautifully crisp, vibrant, living three dimensional wallpaper.”

ADVERTISING

EVENTS

EXHIBITIONS

FASHION

Floriade 2009 Styling, Hair, Make-Up and Creative Direction: Ambassador – Antonia Kidman

SANFL TRIBE IS CALLING 2010 CAMPAIGN

Emma Hack’s edition artwork is represented by various galleries Australia-wide and in New Zealand. For contact details please follow the below link: http://emmahackartist.com/contact.php#purchase