Emma Hart (artist)
{{Short description|English artist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
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| name = Emma Hart (artist)
| image = Emma Hart (artist) (cropped).jpg
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1974}}
| birth_place = London, United Kingdom
| employer = Central Saint Martins
| occupation = Artist and lecturer
| website = {{url|emmahart.info}}
| nationality = British
}}
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.{{Cite news|url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/people/academic/profile/EHART56|title=Dr Emma Hart Academic Profile|work=Slade School of Art|access-date=2019-02-06|language=en-US}}
In 2016, she was the winner of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women.{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/art/emma-hart-mamma-mia-whitechapel-gallery/|title=Emma Hart pushes the possibilities of pottery with Mamma Mia! at Whitechapel Gallery|last=Buck|first=Louisa|date=2017-08-18|work=The Telegraph|access-date=2018-11-07|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}}
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.{{Cite book|title=Emma Hart.|date=2013|publisher=Camden Arts Centre|others=Noble, Kathy., Camden Arts Centre (London)|isbn=9781907208416|location=London|oclc=870827464}}
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.{{Cite journal|url=https://frieze.com/article/focus-emma-hart|title=In Focus: Emma Hart|journal=Frieze|date=20 February 2015 |issue=169 |language=en|access-date=2018-11-07}} Her artwork addresses questions of social class, familial behaviour,{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jul/06/mamma-mia-emma-hart-ceramic-art|title=Freudian slips: the secrets hidden inside Emma Hart's ceramic art|last=Judah|first=Hettie|date=2017-07-06|website=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=2018-11-07}} and the connections between relatives. Hart's initial training was in photography, but she has gradually focused more and more on sculptures using ceramics. 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.
Upon winning the Max Mara Art Prize for Women in 2016, Hart embarked on a six-month-long residency in Italy,{{Cite web|url=https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/about/prizes-awards/max-mara-art-prize-women/emma-hart/|title=Emma Hart is the sixth winner of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women|website=whitechapelgallery.org|language=en|access-date=2019-02-06}} which was her first time spending more than three weeks outside of London.{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/emma-hart-artist-there-is-something-magic-about-your-hands-in-clay-your-troubles-fade-away-a6741006.html|title=Emma Hart, artist: 'There is something magic about your hands in clay'|work=The Independent|access-date=2018-11-07|language=en-GB}}
A book accompanying her exhibit Banger at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh included a short story by experimental fiction writer Ali Smith.{{Cite news|url=https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/exhibitions/emma-hart/|title=Emma Hart BANGER at The Fruitmarket Gallery|work=The Fruitmarket Gallery|access-date=2018-11-07|language=en-US}}
Exhibitions
= Selected solo exhibitions =
- TO DO, Matt's Gallery, London, 28 September–20 November{{Cite web|title=Matt's Gallery|url=https://www.mattsgallery.org/artists/hart/exhibition-1.php|access-date=2021-02-25|website=www.mattsgallery.org|archive-date=16 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116142147/https://www.mattsgallery.org/artists/hart/exhibition-1.php|url-status=dead}}
- Dirty Looks, Camden Arts Centre, London 26 July - 29 September 2013{{Cite web|title=Archive - Camden Arts Centre|url=https://archive.camdenartscentre.org/archive/d/hart|access-date=2021-02-25|website=archive.camdenartscentre.org}}
- Mamma Mia!, Whitechapel Gallery, London 12 July - 3 September 2017{{Cite web|title=Emma Hart: Mamma Mia!|url=https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/emma-hart-mamma-mia/|access-date=2021-02-25|website=Whitechapel Gallery|language=en}}
- BANGER, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 27 October 2018 - 3 February 2019{{Cite web|title=Emma Hart BANGER at The Fruitmarket Gallery|url=https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/exhibitions/emma-hart/|access-date=2021-02-25|website=The Fruitmarket Gallery|language=en-US}}
= Selected group exhibitions =
- The World Turned Upside Down, Mead Gallery, Coventry, 2013{{Cite web|title=The World Turned Upside Down - Buster Keaton, Sculpture and the Absurd|url=https://www.warwickartscentre.co.uk/mead-gallery/previous-exhibitions/2013/the-world-turned-upside-down-buster-keaton-sculpture-and-the-absurd/|access-date=2021-02-25|website=Warwick Arts Centre|language=en}}
- Bloody English, OHWOW Gallery, Los Angeles, 2013{{Cite web|last=Wilkes|first=Rob|date=2014-01-23|title=Eight London-based artists represent for an examination of English art...|url=https://www.we-heart.com/2014/01/23/bloody-english-ohwow-los-angeles/|access-date=2021-02-25|website=We Heart|language=en-US}}
- Folkestone Triennial, 2014{{Cite web|title=Emma Hart - Creative Folkestone|url=https://www.creativefolkestone.org.uk/artists/emma-hart/|access-date=2021-02-25|website=www.creativefolkestone.org.uk|language=en}}
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Category:21st-century English women artists
Category:Alumni of Kingston University