
From a young age, Emma-Jean Thackray always knew she wanted to be an artist — no matter the medium. Speaking on a video chat from a hotel room in Glasgow, she tells me she never wavered in that conviction. “At no point have I ever thought, ‘I don’t know if I can do this.’ It was always just like 100% I’m doing this.” Her eyes, framed by thick-framed circular tortoiseshell glasses, are steady with that same certainty.