Photo by Rob Luckins
EMMA RICHARDSON
Driven by an interest in psychology, sexuality and transcendence, my large scale oil paintings explore themes of human drive and connection, the complexities of female desire and the search for ecstatic experience.
I draw inspiration from a wide variety of sources including historical painting, research into ideas of the dangerous woman, female authority and desire, and my experience as a touring musician, leading to research into the human need throughout history to find escape through the transcendental, in religion, spirituality, sex, drugs, music, dance, and the power of the natural world.
In these imagined psychological landscapes I play with how paint can describe and suggest the intensity of an experience or sensation, representing both the physical and the metaphysical, and it’s ability to conjure the struggle between the spirit of the times and the spirit of the depths.
BIOGRAPHY
(b.1982 Southampton) Emma Richardson is a painter who graduated from Wimbledon School of Art, London with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art in 2004. She has exhibited in solo and group shows in London, Margate, Southampton, Hong Kong, Barcelona and Madrid.
In 2021 she was awarded the Develop Your Creative Practice grant from Arts Council England and had her first international solo exhibition at Yoko Art Gallery in Barcelona, Spain.
In 2022 she completed three years on the Turps Correspondence Course and returned to Barcelona for her first international painting residency culminating in her second solo show with Yoko Art Gallery.
Alongside painting Richardson is also a musician, and previously wrote and performed with Band of Skulls. Her paintings appear on a selection of their album and single releases. She currently plays bass with the Pixies.
Her work is held in a number of private collections worldwide.
Richardson lives and works in London, UK.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
The Pull of The Tides - Duo Show with Anna Blom - 2023
Liminal Gallery, Margate
Hang Each Night In Rapture - 2023
Mura Ma Gallery, Marple, Manchester
Slow Burn - 2022-2023
Jeffery West, Piccadilly, London
The Great Rebellion - 2022
Yoko Art Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
Hidden Pleasures -2021
Yoko Art Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
One Day Retrospective - 2018
The Arches Gallery Space, Southampton
Feast - 2014
Lazarides, The Outsiders Gallery, Soho, London
Cruising' For A Bruisin' - 2012
Londonewcastle Project Space, East LondoN
Meat Me At The Butchers - 2008
Limited Press Gallery, Southampton
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Darker Than A Blackbirds Retina - 2023
Terrace Gallery, Huddersfield
Curated by Karl Bielik and Rob Hall
The Goddesses (A Love Explosion) - 2023
The Lido Stores, Margate
Curated by Jagger&Johnson
The Goddesses (A Love Explosion) - 2023
Terrace Gallery, London
Curated by Jagger&Johnson
Art on a Postcard - International Women’s Day Auction - 2023
Fitzrovia Gallery, London
Curated by Beth Greenacre
Todxs Contra Todxs - 2022
Yoko Art Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
Material Presence - 2022
Turps Correspondence Course 21/22 Group Show
Fitzrovia Gallery, London
Equinox -2022
Palais des Vaches, New Forest, Hampshire
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog -2021
Online group show at www.cohort.art featuring Turps Correspondence Course painters from year 2020-2021
In Absentia - 2021
Online group show at www.cohort.art featuring Turps Correspondence Course painters from year 2019-2020
Responder - 2014
Southampton City Art Gallery
James Lavelle’s Daydreaming With....The Hong Kong Edition - 2012 ArtisTree, Hong Kong
The Last Picture Show - 2012
The Bargate Gallery, Southampton
ART FAIRS
JustMad art fair Madrid, Spain - 2023
Yoko Art Gallery
Art 14 London - 2014
Lazarides
RESIDENCIES
August/Sept 2022
Yoko Art Gallery Painting Residency