Emma Bentley Fox

About me

I am a socially-engaged multidisciplinary artist, working between London and Yorkshire. I work primarily in analogue photography, extending to installation, performance, writing, bookmaking, and participatory projects, specialise in access and trauma-informed approaches. Their practice centres community building and collaborative working to generate moments of joy, connection, intimacy and kinship in the context of pervasive structural inequalities.

During their residency at Block336, Emma will continue to develop their ongoing project ‘Safelight’ which explores photographic darkrooms as sites for healing and intimacy, informed by somatics and drawing parallels with Queer nightlife spaces. Converting their studio into a darkroom, Emma will be documenting their processes and developing a series of photographic prints, alongside experimenting with sensory technologies. They will also continue to develop their creative writing, character-building and on-going collaborative theatre project ‘Murder Dinner’.

Previously Emma has worked with a focus on embedded documentation of Queer communities. Emma was a founding member of Party Moms’ Society (2017-22), in which they organised and documented Queer parties in Leeds, and since has been working to document Queer communities across The North, particularly Bradford, Sheffield & Newcastle.

Recent exhibitions and residencies include:

Rights, Cuts, Action, Shape Arts (2025) Adam Reynolds Award (2025) The Queer Pleasure Archive, Helix Arts (2025), Patricia Sutcliffe Award Artist Residency, The Art House (2024), WoW Park: Hidden Histories of Woodhouse, Leeds Cultural Institute (2024), Emergent Artist Award, The Baltic x Shape Arts (2023), Confessions of a Party Mom, Hyde Park Book Club (2023), Leeds Artists Show, Leeds Art Gallery (2023).