(27 April 1980 - 4 November 2022)
Emily Hesse lived and worked in Middlesbrough, UK. She was longlisted for the Paul Hamlyn Award for Visual Arts in 2013, shortlisted for the 2020 Arts Foundation Futures Awards for Visual Artists, and in 2021 was the recipient of The Tetley Jerwood Commission. At the time of her death in November 2022, she was engaged in PhD research at the Belfast School of Art, Ulster University.