Emma Hart (artist)
Born1974 (age 49–50)
London, United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Artist and lecturer
EmployerCentral Saint Martins
Websiteemmahart.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]

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

  • The World Turned Upside Down, Mead Gallery, Coventry, 2013[13]
  • Bloody English, OHWOW Gallery, Los Angeles, 2013[14]
  • Folkestone Triennial, 2014[15]

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. 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.
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