Emma Talbot
Biography
1969
Worcestershire, UK
Lives and works in London, UK
1993–1995
MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London, UK
1988–1991
BA Fine Art (First class), Birmingham Institute of Art & Design, UK
1987–1988
Kent Institute of Art & Design, Foundation in Art & Design, UK
Fellowships/Awards
2020/21
nomination Max Mara Prize
1998
City of Rochester Bursary
1996
Susan Kasen Summers Studio Award, Connecticut USA
1995–1996
Rome Scholarship, The British School at Rome
Solo Exhibitions
2020
Kunsthalle Giessen, Giessen, DE (forthcoming)
Eastside Project, Birminham, UK (forthscuming)
Dundee, Contemporary Arts, Dundee, UK (forthcoming)
Emma/Ursula, mit Ursual Schultze-Bluhm, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE
2019
Sounders of the Depths, GEM, The Hague, NL
2018
Emma Talbot, Caustic Coastal, Salford, UK (forthcoming)
Emma Talbot, Nicolas Krupp, Basel, CH
Woman-Bird-Snake, Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam, NL
2017
Open Thoughts, NAK, Aachen, DE
The World Blown Apart, Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam, NL
Stained With Marks Of Love, Arcadia Missa, New York City, USA
2016
Time After Time, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE
Entrances & Exits, Gallery Twenty Two, Bristol, UK
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, UK
2011
You would cry too if it happened to you, Kusseneers Gallery, Antwerp, BE
The Solo Project, Basel (Kusseneers Gallery, Antwerp), CH
A Sheffield Song, Bloc, Sheffield, UK
2010
Pictures from my heart, Transition Gallery, London, UK
2006–2007
Emma Talbot in translation, Quay Arts, Isle of Wight, UK
2005
I’ll be your mirror, Transition Gallery, London, UK
Smooth operators and material girls, The Womens library, London, UK
2000
Memorial Gallery, Wrexham, UK
1998–1999
Rochester City Art Gallery, Rochester, Kent, UK
1994
Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham, UK
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2019
Do You Keep Thinking There Must be Another Way?, Mimosa House, London, UK
The Dark Night of The Soul, Lewisham Art House, London, UK
2018
From Inside Out, Drawing Room, London, UK (forthcoming)
Between Bodies, Assembly House, Leeds, UK (forthcoming)
John Moore Painting Prize 2018, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Journeys Through The Wasteland, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
Solitary Pleasures, Freud Museum, London, UK
Rumpy Bees and Pumpy Blooms, Klosterpresse, Frankfurt, DE
Some Islands, Coleman Projects, London, UK
2017
2016
IMAC International, Walker Art Gallery, Darlington, UK
John Moores Painting Price 2016, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Charlie Dulton Gallery, Beijing, CN
Gallery Onrust, Amsterdam, NL
Speaking in Pictures, Thinking in Tongues, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, AU
In Neuen Räumen, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE
2015
DRKRM, DAM gallery, Berlin, Germany
Lurk/Destroy, The Gallery at Delta House Studios, Research in Painting at Wimbledon College of Arts, University of the Arts London, London, UK
Grafics Interchange Format, 25 years of Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, UK
City Lights, Valletta, MT
Drawn Together. Artist as Selector, Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, 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 Biennial 2015, Drawing Room, London, UK
Auction of Desire and Longing Disco, Transition Gallery, London, UK
Birmingham Show, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
2014
Drawn together: Artist as Selector, Celebrating 20 years of the Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, UK
Emma Talbot, Selina Scerri, Tom Estes, Notte bianca Valletta, Ritz Arcades, Valletta, MLT
Art in the home #2, Contemporary Art Society North, Invited by Moira Innes AND Mark Doyle, York, UK
(detail), H Gallery, Bangkok, THAI
Emma Talbot, Selina Scerri, Tom Estes, Notte Bianca Valletta, Ritz Arcades, Valletta, MT
Outrageous Fortune: Artists Remake the Tarot, Exeter Phoenix, 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) including Louise Bourgeois, Lucia Noguiera, Sarah Lucas, Tracey Emin, Chris Ofili), Walsall, UK
Outrageous fortune, Focal Point Gallery, Curated by Andrew Hunt, Southend/Hayward Touring, UK
Pulp fictions, Transition Gallery, London, UK
Drawing 2011, Biennial Fundraiser, The Drawing Room, London, UK
2010
Party!, The New Art 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, JPN
2009
One cannot be thwarted by Antidisestablishmentarianism, Primo Alonso, London, UK
Drawing 2009 Biennal, The Drawing Room, London, UK
Storytime, Gallery North, Newcastle (Emma Talbot, Dexter Dalwood, Francesca Steele, Christina Kolaiti), 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
2005–2006
Sugar Drops and Acid Candy, Transition Gallery, London & Foster Fine Art, London, UK
2005
Thy neighbour’s ox 2, Space Station 65, London, UK
G:love, 28 Lange Strasse, Augsburg, DE
2004
Pub Crawl, 39, London
Gothmoth, Transition Gallery, London, UK
Something strange, Aine Museum, Tornio, FIN
1999
Fides Becker, Galerie Schuster, Frankfurt-am-Main, DE
1995
Paton Gallery, London, UK
Press, Reviews etc (selection)
2017
Arcadia Missa, Condo, Fruit of The Forest, Web
Arcadia Missa, Condo, Art News, Web
Arcadia Missa, Condo, Something Curated, Web
Arcadia Missa, Condo, Critics Guide, by Rosanna Mclaughlin, Frieze, Web
Arcadia Missa, Condo, Flash Art, Web
Emma Talbot in Interview with Federica Tattoli for Fruit of The Forest Artists, Web, february 2017
2016
Emma Talbot in interview with Magdalena Kröner for Kunstforum International, (20 pages) issue 241, september 2016
2015
FAZ, Kunstmarkt, by Magdalena Kröner 04.04.2015
2013
Skye Sherwin, The week’s Art Shows, The Guardian, Friday 08.03.13
Andrew Brown, Artists Newsletter, March
Arcadia missa, Random House, Web
Arcadia missa, Random House, Dazed and Confused online text by Sian Dolding
2011
Emma Talbot in ‘told’ at Hales Gallery to 2 april and in ‘me and my shadow’ at Kate Macgarry, 11 march – 17 april
2010
Articulated artists: Emma Talbot talking to Alli Sharma at her studio in Walthamstow, London, e17
2009
Jessica Lack, Artist of the week: 35 Emma Talbot, The Guardian, 01.04.09
Publications, Artists’ books, Editioned Prints, Zines and Editorial contributions (selection)
2017
Coming To Painting, peer reviewed article, Journal of Contemporary Painting (Intellect) Issue 3
2016
Vanishing Point, lithograph with silkscreen metallic ink, published by and produced at Curwen Studio, London
Emma Talbot, two part publication for ‘Unravel These Knots’ at the Freud Museum, London with essay ‘Dropping off and coming to’ by Rebecca Geldard
Dream, lithograph published by Curwen Studio, London
2015
E.R.O.S. Journal, The Interior, London
A Walled Garden, silkscreen print, published by Coriander Studio, London
Thames and Hudson book, Drawing People, The Human Figure in Contemporary Art by Roger Malbert
Emma Talbot on Egon Schiele, Garageland 18: Sex, Spring 2015
‘Sex Fantasy’ folded lithograph on Japanese paper, Coriander Studio
The Unscripted Image, peer reviewed article, Journal of Contemporary Painting (Intellect) Issue 1, Spring 2015
2014
The unscripted Image, Text by Emma Talbot for the Journal of Contemporary Painting (published by intellect) Issue 1, Autumn 2014
Thames and Hudson, 100 painters of tomorrow
Sub rosa, A collection of poems and drawings, edited by Anne Fellner, published by Info–punkt, Leipzig, Germany (web)
Rome, Garageland Issue 17, contributor, published by Transition Gallery
2012
Film, Garageland Issue 14, Contributor, published by Transition Gallery
2011
Family, Garageland Issue 11, Contributor: Cover image (winter/spring) published Transition Gallery
2009
Untitled (zine), published by Nieves, Zürich, Switzerland (cover image)
2008
Rock n’roll, Garageland Issue 7, Contributor, Editor of pull–out section, published by Transition Gallery Raw charm, by Emma Talbot for NY Arts
2007
Painting & Translating, Guest editor, Garageland Issue Issue 4, published by Transition Gallery
2005
I’ll be your mirror, Martin Herbert,Rebecca Loncraine, Emma Zalbot, Transition Gallery
Collections
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, AU
Saatchi Collection
David Roberts Collection
J. Sainsbury Plc, Unilever, City of Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
Ministry of Heritage
Abu Dhabi Bank
TI Group
Stephenson Harwood
Bob and Susan Summers Collection, NY, USA