Emma Carlow

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collections 2025

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Emma has been making ceramic whistles since 2022 when she became fascinated by them while researching global folk art. She realised that most cultures have some form of whistle and decided to learn how to make one and ended up making seven working whistles in one evening. A friend quipped that Emma should make one each day for a year. 

 

The following day Emma decided that that was a good idea. She studied the whistle collections online at the British Museum, the V&A and the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe and used them as inspiration for her growing menagerie. She showed a quarter of them at the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy in 2023.

 

These cases house a small number of the 365 whistles that Emma made that year. Each one is stamped with the date that she made it and they all whistle!

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