‘This period in my life, I can be somewhere and have a really different experience of a place,’ says British artist Emma Talbot, who currently lives in the Italian town of Reggio Emilia, after winning the 2019-2021 Max Mara Art Prize for Women, and spending ‘a totally transformative’ six months residency in Italy that comes with the prize.
‘Of course, you take all of the things you see around you back to the studio because they are on your mind, and as a real cliché, quite subtle things like colour and light change in your work,’ continues Talbot, whose work has been included in an increasing number of solo and group exhibitions in Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, Italy and the UK since she was awarded the prize. (We visited ‘The Age/L’Età’, her Max Mara Art Prize show at Whitechapel Gallery, in 2022, while Talbot’s works lit up London’s Piccadilly Circus in 2021.)
