Artist's StatementEmma Louise Pratt studied at Ilam School of Fine Art, Canterbury University, New Zealand. She was the runner up in the New Zealand Molly Morpeth Canaday Award (2005), and a finalist in the Norsewear Award (2007) again in New Zealand, finalist in the Focus Abengoa International Painting Prize, Spain (2014) and finalist in the Parkin Drawing Prize (2019) in New Zealand. She did an artists in schools project in 2018-2019 with Fawcett Primary School in Trumpington Cambridge and will continue with a community project based in Trumpington in 2020.