Emma Scragg
Emma Scragg, an architect, moved to Monto five years ago. Being passionately involved in Monto Landcare and with a background in environmental activism through her architecture and lifestyle, she is inspired by nature and the built environment; photographing, sketching, water colouring, creating dry point and lino prints and working with textiles (new and upcycled). Her printmaking began years ago, using linocuts to create Christmas cards each year, to send to family, friends, architecture clients and people met around the world on her cycling adventures, when postage was more affordable.
She joined Rockhampton-based Capricornia Printmakers soon after moving to Monto and co-founded Urban Sketchers Monto to expand her creative skills and local art community. Emma has more recently exhibited at the Monto Museum of Art (2025), Architect's Art (Red Hill, 2026), the Walter Reid Cultural Centre (2024 and 2026) and the Long Gallery at Benevolant Living in Rockhampton (2026). Her original prints and artworks are in private collections across the state and her earlier linoprint cards can be found across the world.
Exhibitions: 2017 Greens Art Auction | 2024 Capricornia Printmakers' annual exhibition "Two Words", Walter Reid Gallery, Rockhampton | 2026 Architects' Art, Red Hill Gallery | 2026 Capricornia Printmakers' annual exhibition "Wild Things", Walter Reid Gallery, Rockhampton | 2026 Double Exposure: Yesterday Today and Tomorrow'', Benevolent Living, Rockhampton
Public Art | 2024 Mural "Flindersia Australia", 20 Lister Street, Monto
Education: B. App. Sci Ð Built Environment (Architecture), Bachelor of Architecture | 2025 Drypoint Printmaking (Peta Lloyd), Monto | 2026 Exploring Artists Book Workshop (Peta Lloyd), CPI | 2026 Solar Plate Etching (Sally North), Capricornia Printmakers
Other places: www.emmascragg.com | Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thecornerstudiomonto/ | Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/emmazonia2/
Cicada Moon, Tetrapak drypoint etching, 2026.
Where better to find 'wild things' for the inspiration for this print than Monto's Bunyip Hole, Central Queensland. The grass beside the long billabong is a popular place for cicada nymphs to shed their skins, like people, brave enough to enjoy its dark, mysterious waters.
New year harvest, Lino print and chine colle, 2026.
Bunya nuts are an iconic bushfood and timber and geometric wonder. This work was created as the nuts were falling. The cone on a stool in my architecture studio is created is carved in lino (an architect's favourite) printed over a scrap of yellow trace salvaged from redundant project sketches.
Brachy blooms, Tetrapak drypoint etching, 2026.
This image is part of a series produced for the "Double Exposure: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" exhibition. Created for "Double Exposure" exhibition with Capricornia Printmakers at the Benevolent Living Gallery, Rockhampton. Brachychitons are majestic trees whose generous canopies are replaced by flowers in spring. Australis blooms, captured in this Tetrapak drypoint print drawn from a photo of Diane Armstrong's, are generous white clusters filled with birds and bees, while others can tiny, delicately speckles and almost invisible, or big and bold in deep pinks and reds.
Eye of Australis, Watercolour and water-based block ink on Fabriano Rosapina paper, September 2026.
Created for "Double Exposure" exhibition with Capricornia Printmakers at the Benevolent Living Gallery, Rockhampton. Brachychiton trees vary in foliage, blooms and bark. Brachychiton australis (or Broad-leaf Bottle Tree), thriving in Central Queensland's former scrub country, has human-like eyes left where branches used to be. The textures of the bark in and around the eye led themselves to be replicated in lino. This eye was found on a tall bottle tree on the Art Walk in Monto.
Remnant Skyline, Tetrapak Drypoint Intaglio on Fabriano Rosapina, October 2026.
Created for "Double Exposure" exhibition with Capricornia Printmakers at the Benevolent Living Gallery, Rockhampton. The North Burnett skyline is characterised by fragments of surviving scrub, most clearly identified by the narrow and broad leaf bottle trees (Brachychiton rupestris and Brachychiton australis). This double exposure print captures the tree silhouette and the layers of soils that sustain them.
Dispersed, hand-tufted New Zealand wool on German-made 100% polyester backing, 2026.
Crows Ash pods were one of my favourite lino print motifs when living in Brisbane. Flindersia Australis is native to the dry vine scrub on our Monto farm so when renovating my studio, the graphic morphed into a mural to celebrate it. This rug is a further exploration of this.
Ripe, Hand watercoloured linoprint in water-based block ink with gold leaf highlights, October 2026.
Each Brachychiton has different pod shapes and sizes but each contains similar sized kernels of new life, often vivid yellow beneath the prickly, papery outer skin. This print captures the draping pods opening up to release their seeds which are highlighted in gold leaf.
Brigalow Blossom, Tetrapak drypoint, 2025
Brachychiton australis, Tetrapak drypoint etching, 2026.
Brachychitons are one of the few deciduous natives which flourish in central Queensland. The softness of sepia Tetrapak drypoint etching captures the ephemeral nature of their shady canopies.
Monto Motifs: Moment + Patterns, Lino print, 2024.
The regional town of Monto turns 100 this year and is believed to be Queensland's first planned town. This lino print encapsulates the radiating town plan of 1924 and art deco icons incorporated in the town's buildings which soon followed. The tondo format picks up on the semi-circular town layout and architectural motifs and also makes reference to time.
Black-throated Finch, Hand-coloured lino print, 2015.
This small artwork was created as a contribution to the "Black-throated finch project", where artists across the country sent original artworks to politicians calling for a shift in attitude to mining, particularly in areas threatening the endangered Black-throated finch.
Flindersia Australis, Hand-coloured lino print, 2015.
This is one of my favourite prints, inspired by the iconic seed pods of Crows Ash (or Flindersia australis). The graphic form of the pods has been reproduced (with some variation) in a mural on the side of my studio in Monto and a hand-tufted rug completed for the Architect's Art Exhibition in 2026.
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