Emma Talbot

Emma Talbot
Born
Stourbridge, England
Alma mater
  • Birmingham Institute of Art and Design
  • Royal College of Art
  • British School at Rome
OccupationArtist
Children2
Websitewww.emmatalbot.org.uk

Emma Talbot (born 1969, Stourbridge, Worcestershire) is an English artist who lives and works in Walthamstow, London.[1][2][3]

Talbot studied at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design graduating with a BA Fine Art at (1991), followed by studies at the Royal College of Art, where she obtained an MA in Painting (1995), she was then a Rome Scholar at the British School at Rome (1996).[4] She taught art at Northumbria University[5] was a senior lecturer at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London,[6] and has been an academic at the Royal College of Art.[7]

In 2006 Talbot was widowed and has said that this experience influenced the nature of her work.[8] In 2020 she won the Max Mara Art Prize for Women with a project based on the painting of Three Ages of Woman by Gustav Klimt, which is in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome.[9][10][11][12]

Talbot is a descendant of Jews who left Germany in the 1930s. She was married to the sculptor Paul Mason until he died of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2006; they had two sons. She now lives both in Reggio Emilia, Italy, and the United Kingdom.[5]

References

  1. ^ Thurloway, Jameela (27 June 2019). "Emma Talbot". Contemporary Art Society. Archived from the original on 6 October 2022. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
  2. ^ Maitland, Hayley (10 March 2020). "5 Leading Female Artists On Their Daily Routines & How To Be More Creative Now". British Vogue. Archived from the original on 18 May 2022. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
  3. ^ Sommella, Nadia (7 October 2020). "Review: Emma Talbot and Luke Routledge Eastside Projects". Redbrick. Archived from the original on 1 October 2021. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
  4. ^ "Staff - Emma Talbot". Royal College of Art. Archived from the original on 9 February 2023. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
  5. ^ a b Moorhead, Joanna (7 July 2025). "'I'm scared and my work reflects that': the artist painting heavy questions onto the lightness of silk". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 February 2026.
  6. ^ Talbot, Emma (2015). "The unscripted image" (PDF). Journal of Contemporary Painting. 1 (1). doi:10.1386/jcp.1.1.91_1. Retrieved 23 February 2026.
  7. ^ Morra, Joanne; Talbot, Emma (2017). "Intimacy Unguarded: how the personal becomes material" (PDF). Journal of Visual Art Practice. 16 (3). doi:10.1080/14702029.2017.1384910. Retrieved 23 February 2026.
  8. ^ "Art Night 2019, Artist interview: Emma Talbot". Cass Art. 2019. Retrieved 17 December 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  9. ^ Yılmaz, Dilara (29 June 2020). "The Inner Expression of Emma Talbot". L'Officiel. Archived from the original on 14 January 2021. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
  10. ^ Jonze, Tim (11 March 2020). "Klimt through a feminist lens: Emma Talbot wins Max Mara art prize". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 23 September 2023. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
  11. ^ Benjamin, Jess (11 March 2020). "Meet the 2020 Max Mara Art Prize winner, Emma Talbot". The Standard. Archived from the original on 14 January 2021. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
  12. ^ Cowan, Katy (11 March 2020). "Meet Emma Talbot, this year's winner of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women". Creative Boom. Retrieved 17 December 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
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