Emilie Dewitte is a published poet and printmaker based in Ghent, Belgium. Her work serves as an experimental search for harmony, beauty, and comfort in a highly dysregulated and individualized world.
Her poetry debut, Werk (which means ‘work’ in Dutch), was published by Pelckmans in 2022. Her writing has been featured in literary magazines and the anthology De 44, a selection of the best poems submitted to the renowned Herman de Coninck competition of 2023. She has performed at literary festivals in Belgium and the Netherlands and is currently working on her second poetry collection.
In her prints, Emilie combines bold colors with delicate lines in playful compositions. She leverages space, overprinting, and transparency to create complex, collage-like visual experiences. She combines a variety of techniques, such as drypoint, monotype, collagraphs, linocut, and chine collé. Deeply concerned by consumerist and extractive human behaviors, she prefers to use found objects and friendly materials—such as cardboard packaging, Tetra Pak, or withered pieces of discarded plastic. This approach results in layered artworks where depth and tension play a crucial role, inviting the spectator to take a closer look and raising deeper questions about private and public space, community, and estrangement.
Emilie works part-time on an organic CSA farm and as a prison educator, blending her passions for sustainable agriculture, languages, and social justice.
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