Having completed the large public art project, "Made in England", based on the visual culture and ideology of the pottery industry in Stoke-on-Trent (in the English midlands), her work became increasingly concerned with the ceramic industry and its social history.
As a fine artist Emma Biggs makes abstract paintings with her husband, Matthew Collings.
[1] The processes, formats and titles of her paintings relate to her interest in material culture.
Mosaic Workshop have been responsible for a number of high-profile commissions including work for some of the chapels in London's Westminster Cathedral.
She is a regular tutor of short courses in mosaic art at West Dean College, the study centre of the Edward James Foundation.