Emily joined Nissen Richards Studio in 2025. She brings with her experience as a multidisciplinary designer specialising in illustration, identity and motion design; she has worked in creative roles across a range of industries and volunteered in the National Gallery of Ireland.

In 2023 she received a first class honours for her BA in Visual Communications from Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dublin. While writing her graduate thesis The art of the possible: Social Justice in Museums — which explored feminism in Ireland through art and the role of museums presenting important subjects to the public — her interest in the cultural arts sector and the area of exhibition design grew.

After graduating she was selected for the Breaking the Patterns, an EU funded, creative industry residency in Seville, Spain. Here she worked as Graphic Designer and Curator for LAB Seville, a cultural centre facilitating exhibitions and events about contemporary visual culture. During this period Emily developed an art practice and exhibited in an international show in Seville as part of the residency. Her personal projects explore cultural identities through ancestral ties, in the mediums of photography and drawing.

Outside of the studio Emily enjoys travelling, watching films and trying out new cuisines.