EXHIBITIONS / PERFORMANCES / SCREENINGS/ RADIO

 

2010

The Whitstable Biennale.

The Mulberry Press, SE8, London.

Performance as part of Fake Modern, Camden Arts Centre

Untitled Seven (installation) with Benedict Drew, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art

Running and Standing exhibiting with Melanie Stidolph, The Agency, London

Kill Your Timid Notion, film screening, Dundee Contemporary Arts Centre

Rational Rec Commission with Charlie Fox and Paul (B) Davis

 

 

2009

PERFORMA 09, New York, at Light Industry with Benedict Drew

The Question Department, Residency & Solo Exhibition, Artist’s Studio,Camden Arts Centre.

Cell Project Space, solo performance, London

Outhouse at Outpost, Norwich.

Artists Talk, a play at Light Reading, N.O.Where, London

5…attempts…at…squatting…Beckett – performance with Jordan Mackenzie, Studio 1.1.

Reading Experimental Film Festival, video commission.

The Independents, Clore Leadership in the Arts programme, Battersea Arts Centre, London.

The Summer Institute 2009, Tate Modern (devised, programmed and performed)

Incubate – residency and performance with Joe Hakim at Battersea Arts Centre.

Just Like That, video screening Studio 1.1, London

Video Commission for NHS London Hospital

The Work in Progress, Café Oto, London collaborative event with Dai Jenkins, Benedict Drew and Corinna Till

 

2008

 

Camden Arts Centre, an evening of my live work

Nought to Sixty, ICA, London with Benedict Drew

Brown Mountain Festival, solo performance, London

Concrete and Glass, Scene in the Making, Shoreditch, London with Corinna Till

Pay and Display with Dai Jenkins, short residency at Battersea Arts Centre

“Transitions” - Artist in Residence, for Camden Arts Centre at Hampstead School

Rules and Regs at “a space”, Southampton, a month long residency and performances

THE EMMA HART BIENNALE 2 - a 14 week radio series on Resonance FM 104.4 and on TVTV, Copenhagen's Free University TV project, Denmark

Live Cinema, Arcola Theatre London for Lux with Benedict Drew

Drawing Machine, performative drawing with Eddie Farrell, Michael Wedgwood, Corinna Till, Camberwell College of Art

Self Cancellation performance, part of the Gustav Meztger events, Beaconsfield Gallery

 

2007

 

Late at Tate Britain, - an interactive installation on the front lawn

Instructions for Film, with Benedict Drew for No.w.here at the Zoo Art Fair

Projektor – group show. The Café Gallery, London

I can’t live without – group show The Showroom, London.

The Adorable Art Fair with Sunday League Presents…

The Sunday League presents “Quantity Street” , Red Rose London

Sub Urban Video Lounge, Rotterdam.

The Shandy Collection, now&then Gallery, London

Evolution Festival, Leeds – performance with Benedict Drew

Oberhausen 53rd International Film Festival, Germany

Kill Your Timid Notion, Dundee Contemporary Art Centre - film installation

Rotterdam International Film Festival, Seatless Cinema programme, solo film work and performance with Benedict Drew.

 

2006

 

THE EMMA HART BIENNALE 1, Ada Street Gallery, London A two week festival programmed and co-ordinated by myself. A solo show during the day of my work then in the evenings sound and performance from many invited artists.

Rehearsed Meeting, Chelsea Arts Space

2.13 Festival, Athens, live film/video performance with Benedict Drew

Saison Ville group video show, Lieu d’Art et Action Contemporaine, Dunkirk, France

Day of Damaged Goods, Whitechapel Gallery Café, live video installation/performance

 

2005

 

Countermeasure 2, Florence Trust, London,

Soundtrack, Lux, London live event with Benedict Drew

Experimenta Film Festival, India

Pow Wow Now:New Art From Great Britain, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden.

OPFILM, Cinema de balie, Amsterdam

Lightreading, installation, No.w.here Lab, London

 

RESIDENCIES

 

Transitions. Camden Arts Centre, July 2008– May 2009

Artist in residence for Camden at Hampstead School, London. Culminating in a two week show at Camden Arts Centre.

 

Rules and Regs, May 2008 at a space, Southampton a month in a medieval vault working on a site specific live art work, performed at the end of the residency.

 

Tate Modern and Look Ahead Housing Jan – April 2007 – Artist in Residence at Gateway Housing in Southwark.Working with homeless young adults (aged 18 – 23).

 

June 2006 Working with Benedict Drew as “Radio in Residence” to research, write and present a radio series for Resonance FM (104.4fm in London) travelling with the ‘Resonant Spaces’ tour, Scotland.

 

Jan 2004 Young Artists@CERN celebrated the 50th anniversary of CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research) a two week residency at the CERN centre in Geneva, showing work made in an exhibition there and in London. The work I made was donated on request to the Institute of Education art collection.

 

AWARDS / PRIZES

 

2010 Emma Hart and Benedict Drew win the OCAD off Screen Award for their installation Untitled Seven, at MOCCA, Toronto

2008 Nominated for Derek Jarman Moving Image Award

2007 Film London One to One training award

2004 – 2005 Adrian Carruthers Studio Award, at Acme Studios, Deptford, London

2004 - The Julian Sullivan Award for outstanding achievement in Fine Art Media

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Artist as Artist, article by Dean Kenning in Art Monthly, June 2010, No.337
Nought to Sixty, ICA, Catalogue isbn 978-1900300599
Frieze Online Review by Jonathan Griffin of Nought to Sixty performance.
Zoo Art Fair Catalogue 2007 isbn 978-0-9554034-2-2
Art Review Issue 10 April 2007, Ian White review of Rotterdam Film Festival Performance.

 

EDUCATION/QUALIFICATIONS

 

2008 - current PhD in Fine Art by practice, Kingston University

2002 – 2004 MA Fine Art Slade School of Fine Art, London

1997 – 2000 BA (Hons) Photomedia First Class , Croydon College, London.