Intro: Emma Allen is a Sri Lankan British artist and animator based in the UK who produces work in various mediums. She’s best known for her experimental animation, which has been shown at light festivals, galleries and film festivals around the world. Emma often explores a blend of stop-motion animation and traditional crafts with modern technologies like AR and projection mapping, bringing together handmade techniques and new digital tools to tell stories from science to folklore while creating a dynamic interplay between the old and the new. She also creates site-specific installations such as Flutter, which filled a medieval building with a swarm of glowing butterflies, offering an ethereal, calming space within the bustle of the city to pause and connect with the nature of the wider surrounding region