Emma Talbot

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Emma Talbot
Born
Stourbridge, England
NationalityBritish
Alma mater
  • Birmingham Institute of Art and Design
  • Royal College of Art
OccupationArtist
Website www.emmatalbot.org.uk

Emma Talbot (born 1969, Stourbridge, Worcestershire) is an English artist who lives and works in Walthamstow, London. [1] [2] [3]

Talbot studied at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design graduating with a BA Fine Art at (1991), followed by studies at the Royal College of Art, where she obtained an MA in Painting (1995), she was then a Rome Scholar at the British School at Rome (1996). [4]

In 2006 Talbot was widowed and has said that this experience influenced the nature of her work. [5] In 2020 she won the Max Mara Art Prize for Women with a project based on the painting of Three Ages of Woman by Gustav Klimt, which is in the Galleria Nazionale of Modern Art in Rome. [6] [7] [8] [9]

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