Emma Hart (artist)

Emma Hart (artist)
Born1974 (age 50–51)
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. ^ a b 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. ^ a b c "In Focus: Emma Hart". Frieze (169). 20 February 2015. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
  5. ^ a b 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.