Emily McGardle: ‘The worst part about getting chicken pox as an adult is that it’s not as acceptable to cry all the time’

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Emily McGardle: ‘The worst part about getting chicken pox as an adult is that it’s not as acceptable to cry all the time’

Emily McGardle’s ­artistic life began with “lots of arts and crafts at home with my mam”, she says. “We used to make salt dough.” Her mother also made “a very ­elaborate doll’s house, ­complete with working miniature ­chandeliers”.