Emma Hart (born 1974) is an

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artist who works in a number of disciplines, including

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installation art Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called ...

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, and film. She lives and works in

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, where she is a lecturer at

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. In 2016, she was the winner of the

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Early life and education

Hart studied Fine Art at

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, graduating with an MA in 2004, and completed a PhD in Fine Art in 2013 from

Kingston University , mottoeng = "Through Learning We Progress" , established = – gained University Status – Kingston Technical Institute , type = Public , endowment = £2.3 m (2015) , ...

Career

Hart's art has been exhibited both in traditional gallery spaces and unconventional spaces such as "a semi-derelict flat above an abandoned frame-maker's shop" in Folkestone, as part of the 2014

Folkestone Triennial The Creative Folkestone Triennial is an arts festival held every three years in Folkestone, Kent, England. Site-specific artworks are commissioned for what are often unusual locations around the town, a number of works remaining in place permane ...

. Her artwork addresses questions of social class, familial behaviour, and the connections between relatives. Hart's initial training was in photography, but she has gradually focused more and more on sculptures using ceramics. She has also evoked her own life in her art: ''Dirty Looks'', a 2013 exhibit at London's

Camden Arts Centre Camden Art Centre (formerly known as Hampstead Arts Centre until 1967 and Camden Arts Centre until 2020) is a contemporary art gallery in the London Borough of Camden, England that hosts temporary exhibitions and educational outreach projects. T ...

, incorporated references to a job she once had working at a call center. Upon winning the Max Mara Art Prize for Women in 2016, Hart embarked on a six-month-long residency in Italy, which was her first time spending more than three weeks outside of London. A book accompanying her exhibit ''Banger'' at the

Fruitmarket Gallery The Fruitmarket Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland. Since its opening in 1974, the gallery has become part of the Scottish contemporary art scene. After a period of closure to undergo a significant renovation, the ga ...

in Edinburgh included a short story by experimental fiction writer

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Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions

* ''TO DO,''

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, London, 28 September–20 November * ''Dirty Looks'',

, London 26 July - 29 September 2013 * ''Mamma Mia!'',

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, London 12 July - 3 September 2017 * ''BANGER'', The

, Edinburgh, 27 October 2018 - 3 February 2019

Selected group exhibitions

* ''The World Turned Upside Down'',

Mead Gallery Warwick Arts Centre is a multi-venue arts complex at the University of Warwick in Coventry, England. It attracts around 300,000 visitors a year to over 3,000 individual events embracing all types of theatre and performance, contemporary and cl ...

, Coventry, 2013 * ''Bloody English'', OHWOW Gallery, Los Angeles, 2013 * Folkestone Triennial, 2014

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hart, Emma 1974 births Living people 21st-century British women artists Alumni of Kingston University Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art Artists from London