Esme Podmore is a Suffolk-based artist, using textile techniques, found objects, and text in installations exploring memory, trauma, and ideas around defining identities. Her work and research-interests also concern how installation-based works facilitate viewer encounters with the Other. She is interested in socially engaged practices, and recently facilitated a participatory project on brokenness.

In 2023 Podmore held a solo exhibition at Fox Yard Studio, Stowmarket, where she also held a talk for Art in Focus. Previously she exhibited in a group exhibition, Traumatised Selves, at the Willesden Green Gallery, London, and several East Anglia-based exhibitions. Podmore has run art-making and art-zine workshops and tabled at the City of Literature Fair in Norwich in May 2024.

Podmore took part in two digital residencies in 2021: Suffolk Libraries’ Unfinished Business - where her work looked at violence against women and girls - and 100 Agents of Change with In Place of War. She also benefitted from a residency with Spill Think Tank in 2024 where she explored multi-media installations and interactivity to begin to develop an art investigation into experiences of voice-hearing.

Podmore graduated with a first class degree in Fine Art from the University of Suffolk in 2024.