Emma Talbot
English artist
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Emma Talbot (born 1969, Stourbridge, Worcestershire) is an English artist who lives and works in Walthamstow, London.[1][2][3]
- Birmingham Institute of Art and Design
- Royal College of Art
- British School at Rome
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| Born | Stourbridge, England |
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| Occupation | Artist |
| Children | 2 |
| Website | www |
Talbot studied at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design graduating with a BA Fine Art at (1991), followed by studies at the Royal College of Art, where she obtained an MA in Painting (1995), she was then a Rome Scholar at the British School at Rome (1996).[4] She taught art at Northumbria University[5] was a senior lecturer at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London,[6] and has been an academic at the Royal College of Art.[7]
In 2006 Talbot was widowed and has said that this experience influenced the nature of her work.[8] In 2020 she won the Max Mara Art Prize for Women with a project based on the painting of Three Ages of Woman by Gustav Klimt, which is in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome.[9][10][11][12]
Talbot is a descendant of Jews who left Germany in the 1930s. She was married to the sculptor Paul Mason until he died of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2006; they had two sons. She now lives both in Reggio Emilia, Italy, and the United Kingdom.[5]
