exhibition view
Emma Talbot, Stepping Into The Unknown, 2020
75 x 40 x 48 cm, mixed media
A Crash in Fast and Slow Motion, 2020
400 x 300 cm, acrylic on silk
Emma Talbot, N.N., 2020
35 x 51 cm, watercolour on Khadi paper
Emma Talbot, N.N., 2020
27,5 x 40,5cm, watercolour on Khadi paper
Emma Talbot, N.N., 2020
25,5 x 38 cm, watercolour on Khadi paper
Emma Talbot, Talking To Nature, 2020
46 x 76 x 41 cm, mixed media
Emma Talbot, N.N., 2020
25,5 x 38cm, watercolour on Khadi paper
Emma Talbot, N.N., 2021
29,5 x 41,5 cm, watercolour on Khadi paper
Emma Talbot, Brussels Dream, 2017
118 x 81 cm, acrylic on silk, branch
Emma Talbot, Too Log Has Been Spend Living in Shadow, 2019
125 x 77 cm, acrylic on silk, branch
Emma Talbot, Snakes Raising, 2017
186 x 650 x 262 cm, mixed media
Emma Talbot, Safe Space Shelter For Today, 2018
200 x 180 x 160 cm, mixed media
Emma Talbot, N.N., 2020
30,5 x 40,5 cm, watercolour on Khadi paper
Emma Talbot,The Body Breaks Down, 2019
30,5 x 40,5 cm, watercolour on Khadi paper
Emma Talbot, N.N., 2020
37 x 48,51 cm, watercolour on Khadi paper

Through drawing, painting, animation and sculptures, Emma Talbot explores the inner landscape of thoughts and emotions based on her own experiences and memories. These subjective responses are then cast into wider narratives, addressing prevalent contemporary concerns. The shift of registers and readings of her work between the symbolic and the everyday, the autobiographical and the collective, is expressed in the intertwining of text and image in a form of visual poetry. The relationship between the physical presence of the work and the fluid nature of the subject matter is reflected in Talbot’s choice of materials: hand-drawn and painted onto silk or paper, her images convey immediate representations of her thoughts, sometimes surprising the artist by revealing things that are unconscious. Large paintings on silk in multi-panel installations are suspended from the ceiling, while the mixed-media sculptures transfer the female spirits of Talbot’s drawings to dreamy landscapes, where they are depicted in acts of gathering, journeying and exploring. In her animations, which the artist taught herself how to make during the first lockdown, hand-drawn landscapes of natural beauty, rich with floral and bodily forms, are punctuated by the artist’s poetic texts and accompanied by an other-worldly soundtrack of percussive rhythms, electronic melodies and wailing vocal intonations. (…) fragment from Pressrelease Cenre Pasquart, Biel Talbot is part of “The Milk Of Dreams” curated by Cecilia Alemani, La Biennale di Venezia 2022, Venedig. Talbots works are included in the following public collections: Abu Dhabi Bank, Bob and Susan Summers Collection USA, City of Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, David Roberts Collection, J. Sainsbury Plc, Saatchi Collection, Stephenson Harwood, TI Group, Unilever, University of the Arts London: Special Collections. Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Fries Museum NL, Arnhem Museum NL, KRC Collection NL, AzkoNobel NL, Waltham Forest Collection, Arts Council Collection, Guerlain Collection Paris, British Council Collection. –

Übersetzung

Durch Zeichnung, Malerei, Animation und Skulpturen erkundet Emma Talbot die innere Landschaft ihrer Gedanken und Gefühle, die auf eigenen Erfahrungen und Erinnerungen beruhen. Diese subjektiven Eindrücke werden dann in umfassendere Erzählungen eingebettet, die sich mit wichtigen zeitgenössischen Themen befassen. Die Verschiebung von Sprachebene und Lesarten in ihrer Arbeit zwischen dem Symbolischen und dem Alltäglichen, dem Autobiografischen und dem Kollektiven kommt in der Verflechtung von Text und Bild in einer Form von visueller Poesie zum Ausdruck. Die Beziehung zwischen der physischen Präsenz des Werks und der unbeständigen Natur des Themas spiegelt sich in Talbots Materialwahl wider: Von Hand gezeichnet und auf Seide oder Papier gemalt, vermitteln ihre Bilder unmittelbare Darstellungen ihrer Gedanken und überraschen die Künstlerin bisweilen mit der Enthüllung von Dingen, die ihr selber unbewusst sind. Grossformatige Malereien auf Seide hängen in mehrteiligen Installationen von der Decke, während die Mixed-Media-Skulpturen die weiblichen Geister aus Talbots Zeichnungen in traumhafte Landschaften versetzen, wo sie in Akten des Sammelns, Reisens und Erkundens dargestellt werden. In ihren Animationen, deren Erzeugung sich die Künstlerin während des ersten Lockdowns selbst angeeignet hat, werden handgezeichnete Landschaften von natürlicher Schönheit, reich an floralen und körperlichen Formen, von poetischen Texten der Künstlerin unterbrochen und von einem überirdischen Soundtrack aus perkussiven Rhythmen, elektronischen Melodien und klagenden Gesangsintonationen begleitet. (…) Auszug Pressetext Cenre Pasquart, Biel, 2021

Exhibitions

Kunsthall Stavanger 15.06 – 10.09.23 “The Human Experience”

exhibition view - Erik Sæter Jørgensen
exhibition view - Erik Sæter Jørgensen
exhibition view - Erik Sæter Jørgensen
exhibition view - Erik Sæter Jørgensen
exhibition view - Erik Sæter Jørgensen

Foundation Maramotti, Max Mara Award exhibition 23.10.22 – 19.02.23 “The Age / L’Età”

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installation view
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"The Age/L'Età"

White Chapel Gallery, Max Mara Art Prize for Women 30.06 – 4.09.22  “The Age / L’Età”

"The Age / L'Età"
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installation view
installation view

Kunstverein Friedrichshafen 2.4. – 29.5.2022 “Visions Or Waking Dreams”

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exhibition view
exhibition view
exhibition view

Venice Biennale, The Milk Of Dreams curated by Cecilia Alemani 23.04 – 27.11.2022 “Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?”

All images courtesy: La Biennale di Venezia - photos by: Roberto Marossi

Centre Pasquart, Biel, CH 12.09.-21.11.2021 “Ghost Calls and Meditations”

exhibition view
Emma Talbot, A Crash in Fast and Slow Motion, 2020
400 x 300 cm, acrylic on silk
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exhibition view
exhibition view
Emma Talbot, What Are We?, 2021
265 x 274 cm, acrylic on silk,

DCA, Dundee, Schottland 14.04.-21.08.2021 “Ghost Calls”

Circa Project, Picadilly Circus London, UK 1.-31.03.2021 “Visions for a hopeful Future” 4 episodes, public screening

Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK 2.10.-26.11.2020 “When Screens Break”

Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, NAK Aachen 22.10.-03.12.2017 “Open Thoughts”

CV

Emma Talbot

* 1969 in Stourbridge, UK lives and works in London 1993–95 Royal College of Art, London, MA Painting. 1988–91 Birmingham Institute of Art & Design, BA Fine Art (First class) 1987–88 Kent Institute of Art & Design, Foundation in Art & Design

Fellowships/Awards/Residencies

1995-96 Rom Grant, British School at Rome, IT 2018 Bryan Robertson Trust prize 2020 8. Max Mara Award for Women 2021/2022 residency in Italy on behalf of 8. Max Mara Award for women

Solo Exhibitions (selection)

2023 Beiqiu Museum, Nanjing Jiangsu, CN Model, Sligo, IE  A Journey You Take Alone, Kunsthalle Giessen, Giessen, DE In the End, the Beginning, Kesselhaus, Kindl, Berlin, DE The Human Experience, Kunsthalle Stavanger, NO The Age L´Èta, Model, Sligo, IR 2022 Max Mara Award exhibition, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK Max Mara Award exhibition, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, IT Meditations, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE 2021 Ghost Calls And Meditations, Centre d’Art Pasquart, Biel, CH 2020 When Screens Break, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK Gost Calls, DCA, Contemporary Arts, Dundee, UK Emma /Ursula, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE 2019/20 Sounders of the Depths, GEM, The Hague, NL Art Night 2019, Commissions William Morris Gallery, Mirth Marvel and Maud, London, UK 2018 21 Century Sleepwalk, Caustic Coastal, Salford, UK Nicolas Krupp, Basel, CH Woman-Snake-Bird, Onrust Gallery, Amsterdam, NL 2017 Open Thoughts, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, DE The World Blown Apart, Onrust Gallery, Amsterdam, NL Stained With Marks Of Love, Arcadia Missa, New York USA 2016 Time After Time, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE Unravel These Knots, Freud Museum, London, UK 2015 Step inside Love, Domobaal, London, UK Memories Turn to Dusk, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE 2013 Means of Escape, Mrs Rick’s Cupboard at Primary, Nottingham, UK 2012 Bad objects, Little deaths, Transition Gallery, London 2011 You would cry too if it happened to you, Kusseneers Gallery, Antwerp, BE The Solo Project, Basel (Kusseneers Gallery, Antwerp), BE A Sheffield Song, Bloc, Sheffield, UK 2010 Pictures from my heart, Transition Gallery, London, UK

Group Exhibitions

2023 The Irreplaceable Human, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, DK The Cosmos Within, Aros Art Museum, Arhus, DK Poly, Group exhibition, Kindl, Berlin, DE Between Knowing and Understanding, Group exhibition STUK Arts Center, BE Die Unhintergehbare Verflechtung Aller Leben, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, DE  Dawn of Humanity, Art in societies in transition in the early 20th and 21st centuries, Kunstmuseum Bonn, DE 2022 The Milk Of Dreams, curated by Cecilia Alemani, La Biennale di Venezia, Arsenale, Venedig, IT Visions or Waking Dreams, with Melike Kara, Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind, Julia Steinigeweg, Emma Talbot, Kunstverein Friedrichshafen, DE fundamental occurrences,  with Sophie Ullrich, Anna Karkar, Emma Talbot, Monica Mays, Emma Hart, Mike Boursheid, Maren Florin, Carlotta Bailly-Berg, Nosbaum Reding, Brussels, BE 2021 The Great Invocation, Garage, Rotterdam, NL 2020 Winter Light, Hayward Gallery, Southbank, London, UK We Can’t Go Back, Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam, NL Displacement, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE Not Without My Ghosts, Hayward Touring, incl. Grundy Gallery Liverpool, Millenium Galleries Sheffield, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery Swansea 2019 Just So Stories, Nosbaum reding, Luxembourg, LU Starhawk ´s Backyard, Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam. NL Do You Keep Thinking There Must Be Another Way, Mimosa House, London, UK All That the Rain Promises, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, UK 2018 From the Inside Out, Drawing Room, London, UK John Moores Painting Price, Walker Art Center, Liverpool, UK Virginia Woolf an exhibition inspired by her writings, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, UK touring to Pallant House, Chichester and The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK Journeys with The Wasteland, Turner Contemporary,Margate, UK Solitary Pleasures, Freud Museum, London, UK Rumpy Bees & Pumpy Blooms, Klosterpresse, Frankfurt, DE Some Islands, Coleman Projects, London, UK 2017 CONDO, Arcadia Missa, London, UK 2016 MAC International Ulster Bank Prize, MAC Belfast, UK Telling Tales, Collyer Bristow, London, UK Ghost On A Wire, Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, Singapore John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK Comic Tragics, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, AUS Endgame, Turps Gallery, London, UK In Neuen Räumen, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE 2015 DRKRM, DAM Gallery, Berlin, DE Grafics Interchange Format, 25 years of Focal Point Gallery, Soutend-on-Sea, UK To Go Too Far, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE In Miniature (Mrs Rick´s Cupboard) Small Collections Room at Primary, Nottingham Contemporary, UK Drawing Biennal 2015, Drawing Room, London, UK Auction of Desire and Longing Disco, Transition Gallery, London, UK Contemporary, UK Birmingham Show, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK 2014 Mind The Gap, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE Drawn together: Artist as Selector, Celebrating 20 years of the Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, UK Notte Bianca Valletta, City Lights, Valleta, Malta Emma Talbot, Selina Scerri, Tom Estes, Notte bianca Valletta, Ritz Arcades, Valletta, MT Art in the home #2, York, Contemporary Art Society North, Invited by Moira Innes AND Mark Doyle (detail), H Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand Outrangeous Fortune: Artists Remake the tarot, Exeter Phoenix, Hayward Touring, UK 2013 Atomic, Transition Gallery, London, UK Art Britannia, Madonna Building, Miami, USA Drawing now, (Kusseneers Gallery), Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, FR Random House, Arcadia Missa, London, UK All the dead dears, ww Gallery, London, UK Drawing 2013, Biennial fundraiser, The Drawing Room, London, UK 2012 John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Selectors: Iwona Blazwick, George Shaw, Alan Yentob, Liverpool, UK I wish you well, Vegas Gallery, London, UK The perfect nude, Wimbledon Space, London, Spacex, Exeter, UK Me and my shadow, Kate Macgarry, London, UK 2011 Told, Hales Gallery, London, UK The life of the mind, The New Art Gallery, curated by Bob and Roberta Smith) Walsall, UK Outrageous fortune, curated by Andrew Hunt, Focal Point Gallery, Southend/ Hayward (touring) Pulp fictions, Transition Gallery, London, UK Drawing 2011, Biennial Fundraiser, The Drawing Room, London, UK 2010 Party!, The NewAart Gallery, Walsall, UK Family viewing & Broodwork project,Trajector, Bloom Hotel, Brussels, BE Outland, Vegas Gallery, London, UK Dough & Dynamite (curated by Kobetsvasey), Mcaslan + Partners, London, UK Untitled, Nieves Zine at No.12 Gallery, Tokyo, JP 2009 One cannot be thwarted by Antidisestablishmentarianism, Primo Alonso, London, UK Drawing 2009 Biennal, The Drawing Room, London, UK Storytime, Gallery North, (Emma Talbot, Dexter Dalwood, Francesca Steele, Christina Kolaiti), Newcastle, UK Awopbopaloobop, Transition Gallery, London, UK 2008 Painted room, Transition Gallery, London, UK The walls in three places, White Nave, Dover, Kent, UK Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London, UK 2007 Top Ten, 39, London, UK Painted Ladies, (Eleanor Moreton, Emma Talbot, Rose Wylie) The Surgery, London, UK The Craft, Cathie Pilkington/Emma Talbot (in association with Marlborough Fine Art), London, UK Transition Gallery, London, UK 2006 The Craft, Metropole Galleries, Folkestone, UK 2005 Sugar Drops and Acid Candy, Transition Gallery, London & Foster Fine Art, London, UK Thy neighbour’s ox 2, Space Station 65, London, UK G:love, 28 Lange Strasse, Augsburg, DE 2004 Prub Crawl, 39, London, UK Gothmoth, Transition Gallery, London, UK Something strange, Aine Museum, Tornio, FI

Private and Public Collections

Abu Dhabi Bank, Bob and Susan Summers Collection USA, City of Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, David Roberts Collection, J. Sainsbury Plc, Saatchi Collection, Stephenson Harwood, TI Group, Unilever, University of the Arts London: Special Collections. Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Fries Museum NL, Arnhem Museum NL, KRC Collection NL, AzkoNobel NL, Waltham Forest Collection, Arts Council Collection, Guerlain Collection Paris, British Council Collection, Collection of Gabi and Wilhelm Schürmann.

Publications

Sex Fantasy 2015 edited by Petra Rinck Galerie and Domobaal 95 x 61,5 cm folded in slipcase 24 x 31 cm Edition 90 € 600 + VAT + shipping

News

Beiqiu Museum, Nanjing Jiangsu, China, solo (March2023) Between Knowing and Understanding, Group exhibition STUK Arts Center, BE (June 2023) Duval, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, DE (June 2023)  Model, Sligo, Ireland, solo (September 2023) Kesselhaus, Kindl, Berlin DE, solo (September 2023) Poly, Group exhibition, Kindl, Berlin, DE (September 2023) Dawn of Humanity, Art in societies in transition in the early 20th and 21st centuries, Kunstmuseum Bonn, DE (October 2023) The Irreplaceable Human, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, DK (November 2023) Human Experience, Kunsthalle Giessen, DE, solo (December 2023/2024)