How It Feels

An exhibition bringing together two artists exploring what it means to be human through distinct yet overlapping perspectives.

Through painting, Max Whetter approaches the subject from a male viewpoint, while Emma Digerud-White responds from a female perspective shaped by lived experience, care and emotional intimacy. Positioned within Flamm’s theme of [Dis]Location, the works consider emotional, psychological and relational states of belonging and estrangement, creating a dialogue that invites reflection on vulnerability, identity, connection and shared human experience.

Practicalities: The exhibition is upstairs at Discovering42 and has no wheelchair access.

About the Artists

Emma Digerud-White is a visual artist living and working in Cornwall. Her work explores emotional experience, connection and inner life through expressive painting. Emotions and energies become colour, movement and layered marks, with figures revealing their inner landscapes and relationships to others and to place. Themes of love, devotion, confusion and confrontation run through her practice, which is intuitive and process-led, often beginning with paint applied directly by hand. Alongside painting, she uses photography and video to reflect on motherhood, identity and the shared complexities of being human.

Max Whetter is an artist based in Cornwall whose work explores what masculinity means today. Drawing on his own Cornish upbringing, he looks at how ideas of strength, toughness and control shape male identity – and what sits beneath them. Using humble, everyday materials such as emulsion paint and expanding foam, his work brings attention to vulnerability, emotional depth and the tension between public and private selves. Through this process-led approach, Max invites viewers to reflect on the pressures men carry and to consider more open, compassionate ways of understanding strength.