Emma Sutherland is a mixed-media artist exploring tangible and intangible space and our interactions within it. How we define, create, and traverse seen and unseen space can help us to understand life’s complexities. A focus on sacred space has emerged in recent work, and attempts to capture the space between the mundane and the sacred. Using multiple panels within an artwork, she offers alternative thresholds into this space. It might be a colour, texture, or image that a viewer responds to and can be enticed into this liminal moment. She is also questioning: What makes a space sacred? Is it the space, shrine, monolith, or personal interaction that defines the experience? Can a painting create a sacred space, and does that change the definition of a painting?