Emma Biggs is a professional mosaic artist. She established Mosaic Workshop in 1987 — the UK’s most thriving mosaic studio. She is Senior Tutor in Mosaic at West Dean College, and has written a number of books on mosaic including the best-selling Encyclopaedia of Mosaic Techniques. She has both lectured about and taught mosaic internationally. Her work is held in public galleries, museums and private collections. She has appeared on television and radio, including recent appearances on BBC Radio 4’s flagship culture programme Front Row and the craft-based series for Channel 4 Kirstie’s Homemade Home. Click on the link to see an item on her work filmed for BBC2’s The Culture Show.

Recently she has taken ceramics as a creative starting point, with ‘Five Sisters’ a show at York Gallery’s project space, York St Mary’s, which featured a mosaic she made from thirteenth century pottery shards and ‘Made in England’ a work for the Potteries Museum in Stoke-on-Trent made from ‘backstamps’ – the makers’s marks on the backs of plates and cups.