Emma Talbot - "Living Garden: Vine" 2026
archival print
edition of 10 on Hahnemühle Rag 308 gsm
14.8 cm x 21 cm - paper size
Includes certificate of Authenticity signed by the artist.
Price includes postage & packing for framed or unframed (UK)
Emma Talbot is a British artist, born in Stourbridge in 1969, working across drawing, painting, animation, sculpture, installation, writing and large-scale painted silk. BAGT lists her as an artist at Blackhorse Lane Studios, 114a Blackhorse Lane, London E17 6AA.
Talbot’s work is known for combining image, pattern and handwritten text into fluid visual narratives. Her practice often transforms personal experience, memory and psychological life into wider reflections on power, vulnerability, technology, ecology, feminism, ageing, care and the human condition. Institutional profiles describe her work as articulating internal narratives as visual poems or associative reflections, while her RCA research frames painting as a way to hold inner and outer worlds of lived experience simultaneously.
A major feature of Talbot’s recent work is her use of acrylic on silk, producing unstretched, suspended and immersive works that operate between painting, drawing, textile, architecture and performance space. Her RCA research specifically connects this approach with expanded painting, double-sided works, walk-through structures and a text-image language capable of communicating intimate, political and contemporary experience.
Talbot won the 8th Max Mara Art Prize for Women in 2020. Her resulting exhibition The Age / L’Età, shown at Whitechapel Gallery and Collezione Maramotti, comprised animation, free-hanging painted silk panels, three-dimensional work and drawings. The project explored representation, ageing, power, governance and attitudes towards nature, using Gustav Klimt’s The Three Ages of Woman as a point of departure and reimagining older female agency through feminist, ecological and care-centred narratives.
Talbot was included in The Milk of Dreams, curated by Cecilia Alemani for the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022, and has since presented major solo projects across the UK, Europe and Asia, including How We Learn To Love at Compton Verney, Everything Is Energy at Arnolfini, A Journey You Take Alone at Kunsthalle Giessen, In The End, The Beginning at KINDL Berlin and The Human Experience at Kunsthall Stavanger.