THE LARGEST-ever UK show of leading British artist Emma Talbot has opened at Compton Verney.
Emma Talbot: How We Learn to Love brings together over 20 new and recent works that showcase the diverse range of her practice including drawing, painting, poetical texts, animation and sculpture.
This major exhibition explores some of the most pressing issues of our times through an intensely personal lens, from humanity’s relationship with the natural world, to power structures and the nature of love and loss.
Talbot has a long history with the West Midlands having been born in Stourbridge, before moving to London at an early age, then returning to study at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design.
Now UK audiences have the opportunity that others across the world have had, from China to Italy, to see a large number of works together for the first time on home soil.
Emma said: “’How We Learn to Love’ brings together a number of key recent works, across different media, all exploring registers of the human experience. My work pieces together what is interior, personal and emotional with the issues and concerns of our times. As humans, we tell our own stories – and love is most often at the centre.”
Curator Oli McCall added: “It is hugely exciting for Compton Verney to be working with Emma Talbot on this ambitious show, which will introduce UK audiences to a host of new and recent works for the first time.
“The exhibition will offer visitors total immersion in Talbot’s dreamlike world, her ethereal silk paintings, delicate drawings, monumental sculptures and animations constituting a vibrant shifting landscape populated by stylised figures, mythical beings, plants and animals within which her themes can be explored.”
Emma Talbot: How We Learn to Love runs until October 5.
