While the Earth Turned the Other Way

Emma Talbot, While the Earth Turned the Other Way, 2024
Digital pigment print, metallic silkscreen overlay, Kozo White 70gsm
33 x 47 cm
Edition of 30
Signed and numbered 
Unframed

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This edition has been produced on the occasion of Nicola L. exhibition I am The Last Woman Object,  Camden Art Centre, 2024. 

Emma Talbot (b. 1969, Stourbridge) lives and works in Walthamstow, London. She studied at the Birmingham Institute of Art & Design and Royal College of Art. Working in drawing, painting, animation and sculpture Talbot often articulates internal narratives as visual poems or associative ruminations, based on her own experience, memories and psychological projections. Incorporating her own writing and references to other literary and poetic sources, Talbot’s work considers complex issues such as feminist theory and storytelling; ecopolitics and the natural world; and pertinent questions regarding our shifting relationships to technology, language and communication.

Talbot's recent solo exhibitions include 21st Century Herbal, Beiqiu Museum, Nanjing, China (March 2023); The Age Model, Sligo, Ireland (September 2023); In the End, the Beginning, KINDL Kesselhaus Berlin D (September 2023) and A Journey You Take Alone, Kunsthalle Giessen (December 2023).

About the work
“The print takes its title from Nicola L.'s graphic novel, While the Earth Turned the Other Way. In the novel Nicola L. describes, with simple outlines, naked poetic humans who lie on the Earth, searching for love as a means of protection, in commune with external giant forces that exist outside, in the space of the universe. I intended to echo the communication between the earth-bound and the mysterious universe in my imagery, (and I felt that the subject tapped into contemporary concerns about our relationships with nature in the widest sense), but I wanted the figure to be dynamic and strong, rather than languorous. I wanted to draw a figure more akin to the frontally naked figuration of Nicola L’s furniture and sculpture,as a protector of the resources on Earth. I drew an almost elemental figure - watery like the source of life, an integral part of the world, but with the potential to commune with wider energies - poetic but also fierce.” Emma Talbot

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