Meet Emmy Lloyd

Emmy Lloyd is a multidisciplinary artist pursuing a degree in Fine Arts at University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP). Lloyd’s work is driven by an interest in how people form relationships with objects, materials, and personal histories to explore memory. Working across sculpture and printmaking, she creates tactile works that blur the boundaries between organic and constructed, often incorporating fragmented forms and salvaged materials to explore themes of vulnerability, preservation, and change. 

My work explores the fragile relationship between the body, memory, and the objects we leave behind. Through sculpture, assemblage, and mixed media, I investigate transformation as both a physical and emotional process; a process shaped by erosion, preservation, attachment, and reconstruction.

My practice is rooted in the tension between the organic and the manufactured. Fractured forms, tactile surfaces, and salvaged materials become vessels for examining vulnerability, identity, and the imperfect ways we attempt to preserve meaning. I am drawn to objects that carry evidence of time: worn edges, cracks, stains, and remnants that suggest prior histories and emotional residue.

By combining delicate detail with unsettling distortion, my work invites viewers into spaces that feel simultaneously intimate and unfamiliar. Photographs from family archives and altered domestic materials appear throughout the work as recurring symbols of survival, decay, and adaptation. Rather than offering fixed narratives, I create environments that encourage reflection on impermanence, embodiment, and the quiet emotional weight carried by everyday things. Ultimately, my work asks what remains after transformation and how brokenness itself can become a site of beauty, memory, and renewal.