A British born ceramic artist; Emma J V Parker immigrated to Melbourne in 2018. Parker earned a Bachelor of Arts Honours in Ceramics and Master of Arts from the University of Wales Institute Cardiff, UK and has taught ceramics in arts education in both the UK and Australia.

Parker’s work is informed by a lifelong fascination with storytelling. She is deeply engaged by the notion of narrative through surface decoration and draws upon this in her ceramic practice, imbuing figurative forms with meaning. She predominantly builds with porcelaneous stoneware and creates detailed hand-painted surfaces with a range of underglaze colours.

Following a solo exhibition at Canberra Potters Society in 2022 Parker's work was acquired from the Clunes Ceramics Award finalist’s exhibition by the Art Gallery of Ballarat. Parker was also the winner of the 2025  Klytie Pate Ceramics Award and 2026 biennial North Queensland Ceramics Award. Her work is held in the collections of the Australiana Fund, North Queensland Potters Association and The City of Townsville Art Collection, QLD.