Contact
→ emmahartstudio@gmail.com
News
→Public Commission CLUB TOGETHER is open! As part of Modern Art Oxford's ground floor redevelopment, Emma Hart has created a unique destination cafe.
→Up Yours Wittgenstein acquired by the National Galleries of Scotland.
→Emma Hart included in Phaidon's new survey publication "Great Women Sculptors".
Biography
Emma Hart lives and works in London. Hart makes exuberant ceramic sculptures, which test the limits of the medium, 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.
In 2023 Hart created the permanent artwork Hear Now! for the public entrance of the new UCL East building in London. In 2024 Emma Hart's Club Together opened, a major permanent installation for Modern Art Oxford in the form of a 60 seat 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.
Hart’s work is held in public collections including the Arts Council Collection, The Government Art Collection and the British Council Collection.
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).
→ Emma Hart's Art UK profile page
Publications
→Strange Clay - Ceramics in Contemporary Art. Exhibition Catalogue, Hayward Gallery
→POOR THINGS. Exhibition catalogue, Hart and Kenning interview the 22 participating artists.
→Vitamin C: New Perspectives in Contemporary Art, Clay and Ceramics published by Phaidon.
→A Long Hard Look. Emma Hart. Monograph published by The Fruitmarket Gallery.
→Mamma Mia! catalogue published by Whitechapel Gallery, to accompany solo exhibition.
→How To Be Somebody by Amy Budd, to accompany Be Some Body at The Sunday Painter.
→Sculpture and the Decorative in Britain and Europe edited by Imogen Hart and Claire Jones. Published by Bloomberg Visual Arts.
→Further Thoughts on Earthy Materials. Group show catalogue. Published by GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst eV
→The Lie of The Land. Group show catalogue. Published by Milton Keynes Gallery and Cornerhouse.
→Suckerz by Ellen Mara De Wachter, commissioned by L’Etrangere Gallery.
→Big Mouth at Grand Union text by Elinor Morgan.
→File Note #80 Emma Hart, published by Camden Arts Centre, text by Kathy Noble.
→TO DO, published by Matt’s Gallery with text by Sally O’Reilly.
Selected Press
2022
→ Waldemar Januszvzak, Review - Strange Clay, Hayward Gallery, The Time (print) 25 Oct
→ Eddy Frankel, Review - Strange Clay, Hayward Gallery, Time Out, Oct.
→ Nancy Durrant, Review - Strange Clay, Hayward Gallery, The Evening Standard (print) 25 Oct.
2021
→The Korea Times. Rising International Artists First Time in Korea
→Jae-Yeon Cho, Art In Culture (print) Jan 2022
2020
→Craig Burnett, Exhibition Diary. The World Of Interiors (print), Oct.
2019
→Daniel Culpan, Review–Emma Hart: Banger, ARTFORUM (print), Summer Issue.
2018
→Hans Pietsch, Feature article–Emma Hart: Banger, ART Das Kunstmagazin (print), Dec Issue.
→Christina Spens, Review–Emma Hart: Banger -Studio International 06 Dec.
→Susannah Thompson, Review–Emma Hart: Banger Burlington Contemporary 26 Nov.
2017
→Laura Cumming’s Best Art of 2017, The Guardian, 10 Dec.
→Emilio Montevideo, Interview–Emma Hart. Mousse Magazine (print), Dec Issue.
→Chris Sharratt, Jonathan Baldock and Emma Hart; Frieze (print) 20 Nov.
→Jessie Bond, Review: Jonathan Baldock and Emma Hart: Love Life, This is Tomorrow; 23 Jan.
→Mette Kjærgaard Præst, Exhibition Review; LOVE LIFE: ACT 1, by Jonathan Baldock and Emma Hart
→Scott Reyburn, report–Frieze Art Fair. The New York Times, 6 Oct.
→Olivia Marks report–The Women to Watch at Frieze 2017, Vogue Magazine, 4 Oct.
→Emily Gosling feature–Emma Hart, Mamma Mia!, Creative Review (print). Issue 288, 21 Oct.
→Louisa Buck feature–Emma Hart:Mamma Mia! The Telegraph (Luxury) 18 Aug.
→Gabrielle Schwarz, review–Emma Hart;Mamma Mia! Apollo Magazine (print). Sept Issue.
→Imogen Greenhalgh, interview–Emma Hart. Craft Magazine (print). Jul/Aug Issue.
→Hettie Judah, interview: Emma Hart. The Guardian (print). 6 Jul.
→Ben Luke–review: Emma Hart–Mamma Mia! Evening Standard (print). 12 Jul.
2016
→Grace Beaumont, Review–Jonathan Baldock and Emma Hart, ARTFORUM, Critics Picks.
→Ilaria Puri Purini, Friday Dispatch: The Contemporary Art Society, 18 Nov.
→Jonathan Jones, Top Five New Exhibitions, The Guardian Guide, Nov 12–18 p.32
→Hettie Judah, feature: Emma Hart. The New York Times, 19 Oct.
→Hettie Judah, feature: The Great Ceramics Revival, The Independent, 13 Mar.
→Maria Balshaw, televisions interview: Artsnight, BBC2, episode 23, 12 Feb.
2015
→Colin Perry, In Focus article: Emma Hart, Frieze (print) Feb 2015.
→Karen Wright, feature: In the Studio with Emma Hart, The Independent 19 Nov.
→Cathy Wade, Review–Emma Hart, Big Mouth, This is Tomorrow, Nov 2015.
2014
→Ben Luke, review: Folkestone Triennial, Evening Standard, 28 Aug.
→Paul Carey-Kent, review: Folkestone Triennial. Art Monthly, issue 380, Oct.
2013
→Ben Luke, Review: Emma Hart Dirty Looks, Evening Standard (print), 26 Jul 2013.
→Yvette, review: Emma Hart–Dirty Looks. FAD magazine.
2012
→Colin Darke, Feature–Emma Hart, Car Crash, Source Magazine (print), Summer issue.
2011
→Larne Abse Gogarty, Review–Emma Hart, TO DO, Art Monthly (print) No.352, Nov 2011.
Contact
→ emmahartstudio@gmail.com
News
→Public Commission CLUB TOGETHER is open! As part of Modern Art Oxford's ground floor redevelopment, Emma Hart has created a unique destination cafe.
→Up Yours Wittgenstein acquired by the National Galleries of Scotland.
→Emma Hart included in Phaidon's new survey publication "Great Women Sculptors".
Biography
Emma Hart lives and works in London. Hart makes exuberant ceramic sculptures, which test the limits of the medium, 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.
In 2023 Hart created the permanent artwork Hear Now! for the public entrance of the new UCL East building in London. In 2024 Emma Hart's Club Together opened, a major permanent installation for Modern Art Oxford in the form of a 60 seat 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.
Hart’s work is held in public collections including the Arts Council Collection, The Government Art Collection and the British Council Collection.
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).
→ Emma Hart's Art UK profile page
Publications
→Strange Clay - Ceramics in Contemporary Art. Exhibition Catalogue, Hayward Gallery
→POOR THINGS. Exhibition catalogue, Hart and Kenning interview the 22 participating artists.
→Vitamin C: New Perspectives in Contemporary Art, Clay and Ceramics published by Phaidon.
→A Long Hard Look. Emma Hart. Monograph published by The Fruitmarket Gallery.
→Mamma Mia! catalogue published by Whitechapel Gallery, to accompany solo exhibition.
→How To Be Somebody by Amy Budd, to accompany Be Some Body at The Sunday Painter.
→Sculpture and the Decorative in Britain and Europe edited by Imogen Hart and Claire Jones. Published by Bloomberg Visual Arts.
→Further Thoughts on Earthy Materials. Group show catalogue. Published by GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst eV
→The Lie of The Land. Group show catalogue. Published by Milton Keynes Gallery and Cornerhouse.
→Suckerz by Ellen Mara De Wachter, commissioned by L’Etrangere Gallery.
→Big Mouth at Grand Union text by Elinor Morgan.
→File Note #80 Emma Hart, published by Camden Arts Centre, text by Kathy Noble.
→TO DO, published by Matt’s Gallery with text by Sally O’Reilly.
Selected Press
2022
→ Waldemar Januszvzak, Review - Strange Clay, Hayward Gallery, The Time (print) 25 Oct
→ Eddy Frankel, Review - Strange Clay, Hayward Gallery, Time Out, Oct.
→ Nancy Durrant, Review - Strange Clay, Hayward Gallery, The Evening Standard (print) 25 Oct.
2021
→The Korea Times. Rising International Artists First Time in Korea
→Jae-Yeon Cho, Art In Culture (print) Jan 2022
2020
→Craig Burnett, Exhibition Diary. The World Of Interiors (print), Oct.
2019
→Daniel Culpan, Review–Emma Hart: Banger, ARTFORUM (print), Summer Issue.
2018
→Hans Pietsch, Feature article–Emma Hart: Banger, ART Das Kunstmagazin (print), Dec Issue.
→Christina Spens, Review–Emma Hart: Banger -Studio International 06 Dec.
→Susannah Thompson, Review–Emma Hart: Banger Burlington Contemporary 26 Nov.
2017
→Laura Cumming’s Best Art of 2017, The Guardian, 10 Dec.
→Emilio Montevideo, Interview–Emma Hart. Mousse Magazine (print), Dec Issue.
→Chris Sharratt, Jonathan Baldock and Emma Hart; Frieze (print) 20 Nov.
→Jessie Bond, Review: Jonathan Baldock and Emma Hart: Love Life, This is Tomorrow; 23 Jan.
→Mette Kjærgaard Præst, Exhibition Review; LOVE LIFE: ACT 1, by Jonathan Baldock and Emma Hart
→Scott Reyburn, report–Frieze Art Fair. The New York Times, 6 Oct.
→Olivia Marks report–The Women to Watch at Frieze 2017, Vogue Magazine, 4 Oct.
→Emily Gosling feature–Emma Hart, Mamma Mia!, Creative Review (print). Issue 288, 21 Oct.
→Louisa Buck feature–Emma Hart:Mamma Mia! The Telegraph (Luxury) 18 Aug.
→Gabrielle Schwarz, review–Emma Hart;Mamma Mia! Apollo Magazine (print). Sept Issue.
→Imogen Greenhalgh, interview–Emma Hart. Craft Magazine (print). Jul/Aug Issue.
→Hettie Judah, interview: Emma Hart. The Guardian (print). 6 Jul.
→Ben Luke–review: Emma Hart–Mamma Mia! Evening Standard (print). 12 Jul.
2016
→Grace Beaumont, Review–Jonathan Baldock and Emma Hart, ARTFORUM, Critics Picks.
→Ilaria Puri Purini, Friday Dispatch: The Contemporary Art Society, 18 Nov.
→Jonathan Jones, Top Five New Exhibitions, The Guardian Guide, Nov 12–18 p.32
→Hettie Judah, feature: Emma Hart. The New York Times, 19 Oct.
→Hettie Judah, feature: The Great Ceramics Revival, The Independent, 13 Mar.
→Maria Balshaw, televisions interview: Artsnight, BBC2, episode 23, 12 Feb.
2015
→Colin Perry, In Focus article: Emma Hart, Frieze (print) Feb 2015.
→Karen Wright, feature: In the Studio with Emma Hart, The Independent 19 Nov.
→Cathy Wade, Review–Emma Hart, Big Mouth, This is Tomorrow, Nov 2015.
2014
→Ben Luke, review: Folkestone Triennial, Evening Standard, 28 Aug.
→Paul Carey-Kent, review: Folkestone Triennial. Art Monthly, issue 380, Oct.
2013
→Ben Luke, Review: Emma Hart Dirty Looks, Evening Standard (print), 26 Jul 2013.
→Yvette, review: Emma Hart–Dirty Looks. FAD magazine.
2012
→Colin Darke, Feature–Emma Hart, Car Crash, Source Magazine (print), Summer issue.
2011
→Larne Abse Gogarty, Review–Emma Hart, TO DO, Art Monthly (print) No.352, Nov 2011.
