Chat with Emma Talbot

Emma Talbot and I talk about drawing as a place to put all her thinking and entertain herself with and giving into limbo. We talk about Emma's figures and how they developed as large headed faceless portals and how Emma works from the inside, always asking, 'what's it like to be me, doing anything from the inside'. We talk about  travel and where she was supposed to be with the Max Mara Art prize in Italy and her postponed shows 'Ghost Call' at DCA Dundee  and 'When Screens break' at Eastside Projects. Exploring the prescient themes in these shows we  talk about Keening and clapping for the NHS, ideas of landscape and interiority and Joe Wicks and 1984. We talk about the urgency of the arts as a narrative of our time, with a mandate to tell of, project, speculate and extend and we talk about Emma's text pieces, as that 'painting words that come to mind' .

We discuss her lockdown animations, tiny episodes about contending with a threat 'outside' and trying to survive. 

We end on perambulation and getting up as if you might be doing something. 

There is a glitch at the end of the recording where it sounds like we speak over each other but we didn't really! Even though we were both excited. 

Image:
Detail of painted hangings, 'When Screens Break' acrylic on silk 2020 

http://www.emmatalbot.org.uk

http://www.galerieonrust.nl/artists.php?cid=00037

https://www.petrarinckgalerie.de/artists/talbot/

https://www.instagram.com/talbot.emma/?hl=en

https://www.dca.org.uk/visit/gallery

https://eastsideprojects.org

https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/max-mara-art-prize-for-women-8th-edition-2019-2021/