Emily MacDuff was born in St Andrews in 1995. She studied at The Florence Academy of Art in Florence, Italy graduating in June 2017.
She had paintings selected for the Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition held in late 2017 at the Mall Galleries, London and has also exhibited at the Pittenweem Arts Festival in 2016 and 2017.
Emily was selected by the Scottish Qualifications Authority for their “Best in Scotland” exhibition at Strathclyde University in Glasgow September 2013. In 2016 she won the 17th Annual Art Renewal Center Scholarship Awards and was awarded work-study scholarship from the Florence Academy of Art for the academic year 2015/2016. Emily was selected as a semi-finalist for the Jack Wills Young Brits competition in 2014, reaching the final ten out of thousands of applications in the “Creatives” category.