Eventbrite Talks Emma Talbot
- Agnieszka
- Mar 17, 2021
- 2 min read
Updated: Mar 23, 2021
-Multidimensional practice
Emma describes her process: first stage of any project would be drawing as getting thoughts down. Free style drawing, without planning. It could lead to a big project like an installation, as she says.
She walks us through her exhibitions-they are all based on deep thinking and offer a viewer not only aesthetic experience but are also an invitation to ponder about many aspects of life. Her interview felt like one big interesting story taking us on a visual journey and making us reflect on life.
'Your birth - the epic historical moment you can't remember' -exhibition in Hague. She talks how our birth is what we all experienced, yet can't remember it and therefore it becomes almost mythical, unreal.
-Drawings into animations.
Emma is talking about a drawing of a female character which represents her awareness of her inner self, faceless-just like we can't see our own face when we look into the world; world full of demands and structures.
'Who's this voice speaking inside of You? It's not God, government; it's You, Your Being, THINKING'
she point out int one of her paintings.
- 'How is your own death so inconceivable?' - exhibition
volcano as metaphor for death- we don't know when we will erupt.
- 'when screens break'- interconnection with technology. Seduced by devices, disconnected from tangible world. Similarities between beginnings of 20th and 21st centuries (rise in nationalisms, populism, pandemics, huge gaps between extreme wealth and excess and the poverty of the average wage), both worlds heading do chaos. Looking into history and knowing that in last century it all led to world wars and what wondering what will happen in our future.
Moon in the sky:' This is not the end. Let's use the time we have together, embracing a forward movement without fear'.
This work was done before pandemic, but in todays reality we can take its message by thinking how we would like to live, what we think is important and what we care about- as the author concludes.
Her work is very narrative and springs upon deep life reflections.
(stills from an animation presented as a part of the exhibition)
The first thing that attracted me to Emma's work is its spatial, colourful character. When listening to the presentation I learned how deeply meaningful all the images are. I found it very engaging to be a receiver of all those profound human stories, being taken by the author by hand and shown what she meant to depict in her art stories.
Her drawings become big paintings on fabric, spread out vastly in space, or forming shapes, passages, 3d big structures, they are translated into fabric landscapes/figures/installations/animations.
---> installations
---> painting on fabric (me:printing on fabric)
---> stop motion animation as part of exhibition
I found more artwork on her webpage and really loved colour combinations. Majority of the paintings weave pattern into their narrative, which I find visually very appealing:
(slide photos to see more)
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