Emma Hart (artist)

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]

Emma Hart (artist)
Born1974
London
NationalityBritish
OccupationArtist and Lecturer
EmployerCentral Saint Martins
Websitewww.emmahart.info

In 2016, she was the winner of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women;[2] she is also a recipient of a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Visual Arts Award.

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 behavior,[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] While in Italy, she studied the ceramic technique known as maiolica, which in turn influenced Mamma Mia!, which was installed at London's Whitechapel Gallery and at Collezione Maramotti in Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

A book accompanying her exhibit Banger at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh included a short story by experimental fiction writer Ali Smith.[8]

References
  1. "Dr Emma Hart Academic Profile". Slade School of Art. Retrieved 2019-02-06.
  2. Buck, Louisa (2017-08-18). "Emma Hart pushes the possibilities of pottery with Mamma Mia! at Whitechapel Gallery". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2018-11-07.
  3. Emma Hart. Noble, Kathy., Camden Arts Centre (London). London: Camden Arts Centre. 2013. ISBN 9781907208416. OCLC 870827464.CS1 maint: others (link)
  4. "In Focus: Emma Hart". frieze.com. Retrieved 2018-11-07.
  5. Judah, Hettie (2017-07-06). "Freudian slips: the secrets hidden inside Emma Hart's ceramic art". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-11-07.
  6. "Emma Hart, artist: 'There is something magic about your hands in clay'". The Independent. Retrieved 2018-11-07.
  7. "Emma Hart BANGER at The Fruitmarket Gallery". The Fruitmarket Gallery. Retrieved 2018-11-07.
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