Emma Hart (artist)

Last updated

Emma Hart (artist)
Emma Hart (artist) (cropped).jpg
Born1974 (age 4950)
London, United Kingdom
Nationality British
Occupation(s)Artist and lecturer
Employer Central Saint Martins
Website emmahart.info

Emma Hart (born 1974) is an English artist who works in a number of disciplines, including video art, installation art, sculpture, and film. She lives and works in London, where she is a lecturer at Slade School of Art. [1]

Contents

In 2016, she was the winner of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women. [2]

Early life and education

Hart studied Fine Art at Slade School of Fine Art, graduating with an MA in 2004, and completed a PhD in Fine Art in 2013 from Kingston University. [3]

Career

Hart's art has been exhibited both in traditional gallery spaces and unconventional spaces such as "a semi-derelict flat above an abandoned frame-maker's shop" in Folkestone, as part of the 2014 Folkestone Triennial. [4] Her artwork addresses questions of social class, [4] familial behaviour, [5] and the connections between relatives. [2] Hart's initial training was in photography, but she has gradually focused more and more on sculptures using ceramics. [5] She has also evoked her own life in her art: Dirty Looks, a 2013 exhibit at London's Camden Arts Centre, incorporated references to a job she once had working at a call center. [4]

Upon winning the Max Mara Art Prize for Women in 2016, Hart embarked on a six-month-long residency in Italy, [6] which was her first time spending more than three weeks outside of London. [7]

A book accompanying her exhibit Banger at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh included a short story by experimental fiction writer Ali Smith. [8]

Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ana Maria Pacheco</span>

Ana Maria Pacheco is a Brazilian sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Her work is influenced by her Brazilian heritage and often focuses on supernatural themes, incorporating them into unfolding narratives within her work. Pacheco's work has been displayed in galleries internationally and has won multiple awards throughout her career.

Eva Rothschild RA is an Irish artist based in London.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cornelia Parker</span> British artist

Cornelia Ann Parker is an English visual artist, best known for her sculpture and installation art.

Eileen Cooper is a British artist, known primarily as a painter and printmaker.

Rachel Harrison is an American visual artist known for her sculpture, photography, and drawing. Her work often combines handmade forms with found objects or photographs, bringing art history, politics, and pop culture into dialogue with one another. She has been included in numerous exhibitions in Europe and the US, including the Venice Biennale, the Whitney Biennial and the Tate Triennial (2009). Her work is in the collections of major museums such as The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; and Tate Modern, London; among others. She lives and works in New York.

The Max Mara Art Prize for Women is a biennial arts prize awarded to a young female artist working in the United Kingdom. It is organized by the Max Mara fashion company and the Whitechapel Gallery in London. The prize includes a six-month residency in Italy, during which the artist creates an art project to be exhibited at the Whitechapel Gallery and at the Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia, in Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nathan Coley</span> British artist

Nathan Coley is a contemporary British artist who was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2007 and has held both solo and group exhibitions internationally, as well as his work being owned by both private and public collections worldwide. He studied Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art between 1985 and 1989 with the artists Christine Borland, Ross Sinclair and Douglas Gordon amongst others.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Iwona Blazwick</span> British art critic

Iwona Maria Blazwick OBE is a British art critic and lecturer. She is currently the Chair of the Royal Commission for Al-'Ula’s Public Art Expert Panel. She was the Director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London from 2001 to 2022. She discovered Damien Hirst and staged his first solo show at a public London art gallery, Institute of Contemporary Arts in 1992. She supports the careers of young artists.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Monster Chetwynd</span> British artist

Monster Chetwynd is a British artist known for reworkings of iconic moments from cultural history in improvised performances. In 2012, she was nominated for the Turner Prize.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alison Wilding</span> English artist

Alison Mary Wilding OBE, RA is an English artist noted for her multimedia abstract sculptures. Wilding's work has been displayed in galleries internationally.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Phyllida Barlow</span> British artist (1944–2023)

Dame Phyllida Barlow was a British visual artist. She studied at Chelsea College of Art (1960–1963) and the Slade School of Art (1963–1966). She joined the staff of the Slade in the late 1960s and taught there for more than forty years. She retired from academia in 2009 and in turn became an emerita professor of fine art. She had an important influence on younger generations of artists; at the Slade her students included Rachel Whiteread and Ángela de la Cruz. In 2017 she represented Great Britain at the Venice Biennale.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sinta Tantra</span> British artist of Balinese descent (born 1979)

Sinta Tantra is a British artist of Balinese descent. She was born in New York on 11 November 1979, and spent her childhood in Indonesia, America and the UK. She graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art, London, in 2003 and completed her postgraduate degree at Royal Academy of Arts in 2006. In the same year, she was awarded the prestigious Deutsche Bank Award in Fine Art. Highly regarded for her site-specific work in the public realm, she has since undertaken commissions that include the Folkestone Triennial (2017), Songdo Tech City (2016), Liverpool Biennial (2012), The Southbank Centre (2008), and TFL Art on the Underground (2007). She held the inaugural Bridget Riley Fellowship 2016–17 at the British School at Rome, is the recipient of the British Council's International Development Award and was shortlisted for the Jerwood Painting Prize. She lives and works between London and Bali.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Daniel Silver</span>

Daniel Silver is an artist living in London.

Kathrin Böhm is an artist who is operating in and outside of the art world.

Kim Lim (1936–1997) was a Singaporean-British sculptor and printmaker of Chinese descent. She is most recognized for her abstract wooden and stone-carved sculptures that explore the relationship between art and nature, and works on paper that developed alongside her sculptural practice. Lim's attention to the minute details of curve, line and surface made her an exponent of minimalism.

Veronica Maudlyn Ryan is a Montserrat-born British sculptor. She moved to London with her parents when she was an infant and now lives between New York and Bristol. In December 2022, Ryan won the Turner Prize for her 'really poetic' work.

Claire Barclay is a Scottish artist. Her artistic practice uses a number of traditional media that include installation, sculpture and printmaking, but it also expands to encapsulate a diverse array of craft techniques. Central to her practice is a sustained exploration of materials and space.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cristina Iglesias</span> Spanish artist (born 1956)

Cristina Iglesias is a Spanish installation artist and sculptor living and working in Torrelodones, Madrid. She works with many materials, including steel, water, glass, bronze, bamboo, straw. On January 20, 2016, she was awarded the Tambor del Oro in San Sebastian. Iglesias was the first Spanish woman invited to exhibit her work at the Folkestone Triennial in 2011. She is the sister of Academy Award-nominated film composer Alberto Iglesias.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Folkestone Triennial</span>

The Creative Folkestone Triennial is an arts festival held every three years in Folkestone, Kent, England.

Jyll Bradley is an artist based in London. She makes installations, films, drawings and sculptures. She has produced public realm projects such as 'Green/Light ' (2014) commissioned by the Folkestone Triennial, and 'Dutch Light' (2017) commissioned by Turner Contemporary (Margate).

References

  1. "Dr Emma Hart Academic Profile". Slade School of Art. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
  2. 1 2 Buck, Louisa (18 August 2017). "Emma Hart pushes the possibilities of pottery with Mamma Mia! at Whitechapel Gallery". The Telegraph. ISSN   0307-1235 . Retrieved 7 November 2018.
  3. Emma Hart. Noble, Kathy., Camden Arts Centre (London). London: Camden Arts Centre. 2013. ISBN   9781907208416. OCLC   870827464.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  4. 1 2 3 "In Focus: Emma Hart". Frieze (169). 20 February 2015. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
  5. 1 2 Judah, Hettie (6 July 2017). "Freudian slips: the secrets hidden inside Emma Hart's ceramic art". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
  6. "Emma Hart, artist: 'There is something magic about your hands in clay'". The Independent. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
  7. "Emma Hart BANGER at The Fruitmarket Gallery". The Fruitmarket Gallery. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
  8. "Matt's Gallery". www.mattsgallery.org. Archived from the original on 16 January 2021. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
  9. "Archive - Camden Arts Centre". archive.camdenartscentre.org. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
  10. "Emma Hart: Mamma Mia!". Whitechapel Gallery. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
  11. "Emma Hart BANGER at The Fruitmarket Gallery". The Fruitmarket Gallery. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
  12. "The World Turned Upside Down - Buster Keaton, Sculpture and the Absurd". Warwick Arts Centre. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
  13. Wilkes, Rob (23 January 2014). "Eight London-based artists represent for an examination of English art..." We Heart. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
  14. "Emma Hart - Creative Folkestone". www.creativefolkestone.org.uk. Retrieved 25 February 2021.