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A Journey You Take Alone

Kunsthalle Giessen, 23.12.2023 – 29.03.2024

A Journey You Take Alone

Acrylic on silk 

2023

A Journey You Take Alone

2023

A Journey You Take Alone

2023

A Journey You Take Alone

2023

 





The Irreplaceable Human

Louisiana Museum, Denmark, 23.11.2023 - 1.4.2024

Seeds Grow In Fertile Ground

Acrylic on silk 

2023

Microdose Hope

Acrylic on silk 

2023

Plunder

Acrylic on silk 

2023

 





In The End, The Beginning

Kesselhaus Kindl Museum, Berlin, 17.9.2023 - 26.5.2024

In The End, The Beginning

Acrylic on silk 

2023, photo: c.Jens Ziehe

In The End, The Beginning

Acrylic on silk 

2023, photo: c.Jens Ziehe

In The End, The Beginning

Acrylic on silk 

2023, photo: c.Jens Ziehe

In The End, The Beginning

Acrylic on silk 

2023, photo: c.Jens Ziehe

In The End, The Beginning

Acrylic on silk 

2023, photo: c.Jens Ziehe

In The End, The Beginning

Acrylic on silk 

2023, photo: c.Jens Ziehe

 





The Human Experience

Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway, 2023

The Human Experience

Acrylic on silk 

2023, photo c.Erik Sæter Jørgensen

The Human Experience

Acrylic on silk 

2023, photo c.Erik Sæter Jørgensen

The Human Experience

Acrylic on silk 

2023, photo c.Erik Sæter Jørgensen

The Human Experience

Acrylic on silk 

2023, photo c.Erik Sæter Jørgensen

The Human Experience

Acrylic on silk 

2023, photo c.Erik Sæter Jørgensen

 





21st Century Herbal

Beiqiu Museum, Nanjing, China, 2023


21st Century Herbal

Acrylic on silk 

2023

21st Century Herbal

Acrylic on silk 

2023


 

 

Venice Biennale 2022

The Milk of Dreams

 

Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?

Acrylic on silk 

2022

Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?

Acrylic on silk

2022

Installation – Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?/Why Do We Think We Can Outwit Nature? 

Detail – Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?

Acrylic on silk 

2022

Detail – Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?

Acrylic on silk

2022

Detail – Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?

Acrylic on silk

2022

Detail– Why Do We Think We Can Outwit Nature?

Mixed media, digital knitting

2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

Frieze London 2022

Special Project

 

21st Century Herbal

Acrylic on silk – 28-metre hanging

2022

21st Century Herbal

Acrylic on silk – 28-metre hanging

2022

Detail – 21st Century Herbal

Acrylic on silk

2022

Detail – 21st Century Herbal

Acrylic on silk

2022

Detail – 21st Century Herbal

Acrylic on silk

2022

 

 

 

Max Mara Art Prize 2022,

Whitechapel Gallery, London

and

Collezione Maramotti, Italy

Installation – The Age/L'Età

Acrylic on silk, mixed media, animation

Whitechapel Gallery, London

2022

The Age/L’Età

Mixed media

Whitechapel Gallery, London

2022

Volcanic Landscape

Acrylic on silk

Whitechapel Gallery, London

2022

Installation – The Age/L'Età

Acrylic on silk, mixed media, animation

Collezione Maramotti, Italy

2022

Installation – The Age/L'Età

Acrylic on silk, mixed media, animation

Collezione Maramotti, Italy

2022

Detail – The Age/L’Età 

Acrylic on silk 

2022

Detail – The Age/L’Età

Acrylic on silk

2022

 

 

 

CIRCA Project

Piccadilly Circus, 2021

 

Four Visions for a Hopeful Future

Digital animation

2021

Four Visions for a Hopeful Future

Digital animation

2021

 

 

 

Ghost Calls

DCA Dundee, 2021

A Crash in Fast and Slow Motion

Acrylic on silk 

2021

Installation – Ghost Calls

2021

Ghost Calls

Acrylic on silk 

2021

Installation – Ghost Calls

2021

 

 

 

When Screens Break

Eastside Projects, Birmingham, 2020

 

Installation – When Screens Break 

Acrylic on silk, acrylic on Voile, mixed media, digital animation 

2020

Installation – When Screens Break

Acrylic on silk, acrylic on Voile, mixed media, digital animation

2020

Installation – When Screens Break

Acrylic on silk, acrylic on Voile, mixed media, digital animation

2020

Detail – When Screens Break

Acrylic on silk, acrylic on Voile, mixed media, digital animation

2020

When Screens Break

Digital animation

2020

 

 

 

Sounders of the Depths

Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, 2019

 

Your Birth, The Epic Historical Moment You Can’t Remember 

Mixed media and sound 

2019

Installation – Sounders of The Depths 

Mixed media and sound 

2019

Installation – Sounders of The Depths

Mixed media and sound

2019

How is Your Own Death So Inconceivable?

Mixed media

2019

 

 

 

Works

Where Do We Come From? 

Acrylic on silk 

2021

In the End, the Beginning 

Acrylic on silk 

2021

Talking to Nature 

Mixed media 

2020

The World in Flames

Acrylic on silk 

2021

 

 

 

Drawings

 

Watercolour on Khadi paper 

Approx. 38cm x 42cm

Watercolour on Khadi paper

Approx. 38cm x 42cm

Watercolour on Khadi paper

Approx. 38cm x 42cm

Watercolour on Khadi paper

Approx. 38cm x 42cm

Watercolour on Khadi paper

Approx. 38cm x 42cm

Watercolour on Khadi paper

Approx. 38cm x 42cm

Watercolour on Khadi paper

Approx. 38cm x 42cm




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Biography

 

Education 


1993 – 1995 Royal College of Art, London, MA Painting.
1988 – 1991 Birmingham Institute of Art & Design, BA Fine Art (first class).
1987 – 1988 Kent Institute of Art & Design, Foundation in Art & Design.

 

Awards 


2020 8th Max Mara Art Prize for Women
2018 Bryan Robertson Trust Award
1998 City of Rochester Award
1995-6 Rome Scholarship, British School at Rome

 

Forthcoming confirmed exhibitions


Solo


Solo exhibition Beiqiu Museum, Nanjing, China (March 2023)
Solo exhibition Model, Sligo, Ireland (September 2023)
Solo exhibition KINDL Kesselhaus Berlin D (September 2023)
Solo exhibition The Human Experience Kunsthalle Giessen D (December 2023)
 

Group


‘Between Knowing and Understanding’ Group exhibition STUK Arts Center, BE(2023)
‘Dawn of Humanity, Art in societies in transition in the early 20th and 21st centuries’, Kunstmuseum Bonn, D (2023)
K21 Dusseldorf June (2023)
‘Poly’, KINDL Berlin D (September 2023)
ARoS, Denmark (December 2023- June 2024)


Selected solo exhibitions

 
2023

‘21st Century Herbal’ Beiqiu Museum, Nanjing, China
& Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy

‘The Human Experience’ Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway
‘Magical Thinking’, Victoria Miro, Vortic Viewing Room (online)
‘The Age/L’Eta’ The Model, Sligo, Ireland

‘A Journey You Take Alone’ Kunsthalle Giessen DE  

 

2022


‘The Age/l’Età’ Max Mara Art Prize solo exhibitions at Whitechapel Gallery, London UK
& Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
‘21st Century Herbal’ Special project, Frieze London
‘Let Poets Speak’ Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam NL
‘Meditations’, Petra Rinck Galerie, Dusseldorf DE
 

2021


‘Four Visions for a Hopeful Future’, CIRCA Project, Piccadilly Circus
‘Ghost Calls’ DCA Dundee UK
‘Ghost Calls and Meditations’, Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel CH
 

2020 


‘When Screens Break’, Eastside Projects, Birmingham UK
‘Emma/Ursula’, Petra Rinck Galerie Dusseldorf DE
 

2019

 
‘Sounders of the Depths’, KM21 (GEM Kunstmuseum), The Hague NL
‘Your Own Authority’ Art Night 2019 Commission William Morris Gallery, London UK
‘Do You See Yourself Projected?’ Art Night 2019 commission, London UK

2018

 
‘Emma Talbot’, Nicolas Krupp Basel CH
‘21st Century Sleepwalk’, Caustic Coastal Salford UK
‘Woman-Bird-Snake’, Galerie Onrust Amsterdam NL
 

2017 


‘Open Thoughts’, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein,  DE
‘The World Blown Apart’, Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam NL
‘Stained with Marks of Love’, Arcadia Missa, New York US
 

2016 


‘Time After Time’, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf DE
‘Entrances and Exits’, Gallery 22, 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, Belgium BE
The Solo Project, Basel (Kusseneers Gallery, Antwerp) BE
‘A Sheffield Song’, Bloc, Sheffield, UK
 

2010 


‘Pictures From My Heart’, Transition Gallery, London UK



Selected group exhibitions

 

2023

 

‘Between Knowing and Understanding’ Group exhibition STUK Arts Center, Leuven, Belgium

‘Dawn of Humanity, Art in Societies in Transition in the Early 20th and 21st Centuries’, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany

‘Die unhintergehbare Verflechtung aller Leben (The Inescapable Intertwining of All Lives)’ Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Germany

‘Poly’, Kindl Museum, Berlin, Germany

‘Neue Gemeinschaften’, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany 

‘Images of Power’, Museum Rijswijk, Netherlands 

‘Cycle, Portal, Path’ Nest, The Hague, Netherlands

‘At Heaven’s Edge, Visions’ Krona Museum, Uden, Netherlands

‘Kiss My Soul’, Dordrechts Museum, Netherlands

‘Irreplaceable Human? The Conditions of Creativity in the Age of AI’ Louisiana Museum, Denmark

‘Close Looking’, The David Roberts Art Foundation, London

‘The Cosmos Within’ ARoS, Denmark (December 2023- June 2024)

 

2022
 

‘The Milk of Dreams’ La Biennale di Venezia, Italy
‘Rosa Alcemico’, Minartextil, Villa Olmo, Como, Italy
‘Fantasmagoriana’ LIAF Biennale, Norway
‘Visions Or Waking Dreams’ Kunstverein Friedrichshafen DE
‘Fundamental Occurrences’ Nosbaum Reding, Brussels BE
 

2021
 

‘The Great Invocation’, Garage, Rotterdam NL
‘Delights of an Undirected Mind’, Lisson Gallery, London
‘Her Dark Materials’, Eye of the Huntress, online
‘A Temple Most August’, Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto
 

2020
 

‘Winter Light’, Hayward Gallery, Southbank
‘Warp Threads’ Open Office Arcadia Missa London
‘Unstilled Life’ Ron Mandos Amsterdam
‘We Can’t Go Back’, Galerie Onrust Amsterdam
‘Displacement’, Petra Rinck Galerie
‘Not Without my Ghosts’, (2020-22) Hayward Touring, incl. Grundy Gallery Blackpool, Millenium Galleries Sheffield, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery Swansea,
 

2019
 

‘Starhawk’s Backyard’, Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam
‘Do You Keep Thinking There Must Be Another Way?’, Mimosa House, London
‘Just So Stories’, Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg
‘All That the Rain Promises’, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh

2018 


‘From the Inside Out’, Drawing Room London
John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
‘Solitary Pleasures’, Freud Museum, London
‘Rumpy Bees & Pumpy Blooms’, Klosterpresse, Frankfurt
‘Journeys with The Wasteland’, Turner Contemporary Margate
‘Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by Her Writings’, Tate St Ives, Pallant House Gallery, Fitzwilliam Museum
‘Some Islands’, Coleman Projects, London
 

2017
 

CONDO Arcadia Missa, London
 

2016
 

MAC International Ulster Bank Prize, MAC Belfast
‘Telling Tales’, Collyer Bristow, London
‘Ghost On A Wire’, Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, Singapore
John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
‘Comic Tragics’, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
‘Endgame’, Turps Gallery, London
‘In Neuen Raumen’, Petra RInck Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany.
 

2015
 

 DRKRM, DAM gallery, Germany.
Graphics Interchange Format: 25 years of Focal Point Gallery, Southend–on–Sea, UK
‘To Go Too Far’, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany.
‘In Miniature’, Nottingham Contemporary, UK
‘Birmingham Show’, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
 

2014
 

‘Mind the Gap’, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
‘Drawn Together: Artist as Selector’, celebrating 20 years of The Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, UK
Notte Bianca Valletta, City Lights, Valletta, Malta
The Manchester Contemporary (domobaal)
‘Art in The Home #2’, York, UK, Contemporary Art Society North
‘Detail’,H Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
‘Outrageous Fortune: Artists Remake the Tarot’,Exeter Phoenix, Hayward Touring, UK
 

2013 


‘Atomic’, Transition Gallery, London
‘Art Britannia’, Madonna Building, Miami, USA
‘Drawing Now’, (Kusseneers Gallery), Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
‘Random House’, Arcadia Missa, London
‘All the Dead Dears’ WW Gallery, London
John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
‘I wish you well’, Vegas Gallery, London 


2011 


‘Me and My Shadow’, Kate MacGarry, London
‘Told’, Hales Gallery, London
‘The Life of the Mind’, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK (curated by Bob and Roberta Smith) including Louise Bourgeois, Lucia Noguiera, Sarah Lucas, Tracey Emin, Chris Ofili)
‘Outrageous Fortune’, Focal Point Gallery, Southend/Hayward Touring, curated by Andrew Hunt,
‘Pulp Fictions’, Transition Gallery, London


Selected Collections


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, Kunstsammlung NRW Dusseldorf, Studio Floridi Rome, Italy, Collezione Maramotti Italy.

 

Publications


‘Emma Talbot ‘The Age/L’età’, Whitechapel Gallery 2022
‘The Milk of Dreams’ Catalogue, La Biennale di Venezia 2022
‘Vitamin D3’ Phaidon 2021
‘Ghost Calls’ DAC Dundee 2021
‘Sounders of The Depths’, K21/Galerie Onrust 2019
‘From the Inside Out’, Drawing Room London 2018
‘Drawing People’ by Roger Malbert Thames and Hudson 2015
‘100 Painters of Tomorrow’ by Kurt Beers Thames and Hudson 2014










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