Alexandra Emberley is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and educator whose studio practice explores themes of nature, identity, technology, and materiality through textiles and garments. Her installations are inspired by personal memory, myth, fable, nursery rhymes, found objects, detritus, ornament, and archives. Alexandra integrates these elements using colour, pattern and techniques of drawing, hand and digital embroidery, silk-screen printing, digital printing, felting, devoré, natural dyeing, hand-sewing, and tailoring.

With over sixteen years of experience in post-secondary education, Alexandra has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in visual culture, film studies, craft, critical and creative research methods, and studio-based inquiry. From 2015 to 2018, she served as Chair of the School of Craft and Emerging Media at AUArts, playing a pivotal role in the creation and implementation of their first graduate degree, an MFA in Craft.

Alexandra holds an Hons BA in Philosophy and Cinema Studies from the University of Toronto, a PhD from York University’s Faculty of Education, and an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Alberta. In 2018, she completed professional certification in couture embroidery at the École Lesage in Paris, and in May 2023, she graduated with an MFA in Textiles from the Rhode Island School of Design. Between 2023 and 2024, Alexandra spent six months in the UK training in the art of drafting, tailoring, and fitting bespoke suit jackets.

Her work has received funding from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Nova Scotia Arts Council, and the HRM Open Projects Program, and she is the recipient of numerous awards and scholarships, including the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Graduate MFA Student Award (2012), the Queen Elizabeth II Scholarship (2012), and the Rosanne Somerson Scholarship (2022, 2023). In 2022-2023, she was a Graduate Fellow in Costume and Textiles at the RISD Museum, where she assisted in curating the "Sensing Fashion" exhibit. Her projects have been exhibited across Canada, the United States, England, Japan, Slovakia, and Scotland. She has participated in residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts, CAAF in Calgary, Alberta, Point Pleasant Park in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and the Bentlage Cultural and Museum Centre in Germany.

A full CV is available upon request.