Emma Baker has worked with glass for over ten years, initially encountering the material whilst studying Applied Arts at Bournemouth University. She received her BA (Hons) from Sunderland University in 2014. She is hugely inspired by the materiality of glass and the ideology behind the hand of the maker. With a strong emphasis on process, she works with themes of narrative and sentiment to create artworks in glass.

Her passion for learning and understanding the material has driven her to work with an abundance of glassmakers in a variety of locations. Most notably, 2020 was spent living and working in Bergen, Norway, to ‘keep the furnace alight’ at S12 Galleri og Verksted. An incredible experience that Baker describes as a “pivotal point in her life and career”.

In the summer of 2022, the United Nations’ year of glass, she was invited by the Nationaal Glasmuseum in Leerdam, Holland, for an international glass exchange to create work that is now held in their public collection. Her work is also in the collections of the Kode Art Museum, Bergen, Norway and the National Glass Centre, Sunderland, England.

Baker has been awarded residencies at Berlin Glas, The Glass Factory, S12 Bergen and North Lands Creative. In January 2025 she was awarded an Honorary Diploma from the Jutta Cuny-Franz Foundation, Germany. Her most recent works have been explored during her time as an AA2A artist at Sunderland University, an opportunity undertaken in 2024/25. Her work has been shown across the UK, Europe and most recently, in the USA.

Artist portrait by Megan Gallacher.