Emily Parr (Ngāi Te Rangi, Moana, Pākehā) is an artist living in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa (Auckland, New Zealand). Her moving-image practice weaves through time and space, exploring systems of relation emerging from Te Moananui-a-Kiwa.

Emily’s recent Master’s research on settler-indigenous relationships traverses oceans and centuries, seeking stories in archives and waters on haerenga to her ancestral homelands of Tauranga Moana, Sāmoa and Tonga. Her doctoral research considers the responsibilities she has inherited through her ancestral legacies and, in particular, to her family’s collection of taonga and measina held by museums.

Emily was the recipient of the 2019 Iris Fisher Scholarship and 2016 Tāmaki Estuary Art Award. She holds a BFA (Hons) from Elam and an MVA from AUT. Emily is currently working towards a PhD with support from an Auckland Museum Institute Postgraduate Scholarship.