Fork Face

Emma Hart, Fork Face, 2024
Silkscreen, Somerset Tub Sized 410gsm
59.5 x 42 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 Hart lives and works in London. Hart studied Fine Art at Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, graduating with an MA (2004), and received a PhD degree in Fine Art at Kingston University (2013). 

In 2023 Hart created the permanent artwork Hear Now! for the public entrance of the new UCL East building in London, and in 2024 Hart will realise a major permanent installation for Modern Art Oxford in the form of a cafe!  

In 2022 she was awarded a Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award. In 2017 she won the Max Mara Art Prize for Women in collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery, and in 2015 she was awarded a Paul Hamlyn Foundation award for Visual Art.

Major solo exhibitions include Big Time (Hospitalfield, Scotland 2023 and Frieze Sculpture, London 2022),  Big Mouth, (Barakat Contemporary, Seoul, 2022); Banger (Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, 2018), Mamma Mia! (Whitechapel Gallery, London, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, 2017), Giving It All That (Folkestone Triennial 2014) and Dirty Looks (Camden Arts Cente, 2013). 

She has participated in group exhibitions, notably presenting work in the ceramic survey Strange Clay at the Hayward Gallery (London, 2022-23); Somerset House (London, 2021); Kuenstlerhaus Dortmund (Dortmund, 2019); Kunsthaus Hamburg (Hamburg, 2018). Hart co-curated and took part in the major sculpture group show, Poor Things at Fruitmarket (Scotland, 2023).

Hart was included in the 2017 Phaidon publication Vitamin C, a  global survey of 100 of today's most important clay and ceramic artists. In 2024 Hart is included in a new book by Phaidon Press called Great Women Sculptors. The book will present around 300 of the most significant and preeminent women sculptors from around the world and across time.

About the work
Hart makes exuberant, often funny, ceramic sculptures -  pushing clay to go beyond being a vessel. Hart’s vivid sculptures actively confront the viewer often by jutting out from the wall or physically encroaching on the viewer’s personal space. Much of Hart’s sculptural work has a strong graphic element, which Hart is now realising makes for ‘in your face’ screen prints. Fork Face - a self portrait-  examines her own personal space and how it is shaped and pricked by the 360 degree stresses life forces on the body. 

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