| BORN: | - | - |
| UK, 1974 | - | - |
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| LIVES/WORKS: | - | - |
| London, UK | - | - |
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| EDUCATION: | - | - |
| 1997-1998 | MA fine art | Chelsea College of Art and Design, London |
| 1993-1996 | BA fine art | Central Saint Martins College of Art, London |
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| SOLO EXHIBITIONS: | - | - |
| 2002 | Emma Bennett, New Paintings | Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London |
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| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: | ||
| 2008 | Scope New York | New York |
| 2007 | The Future Can Wait | Ellis Rumley Projects, Atlantis Gallery, London |
| 2007 | Equinox | Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London |
| 2007 | London Art Fair | Islington Business Design Centre, London |
| 2007 | Scope Basel | Basel |
| 2007 | Scope London | London |
| 2006 | Nocturnal | Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London |
| 2006 | John Moores 24 / Liverpool Biennale | BiennaleWalker Gallery, Liverpool |
| 2006 | Preview Berlin | Berlin |
| 2006 | London Art Fair | Islington Business Design Centre, London |
| 2005 | Between Dog & Wolf | Clapham Art Gallery, London |
| 2005 | Art Frankfurt | Frankfurt |
| 2005 | Kunst Zurich | Zurich |
| 2005 | Berliner Liste | Berlin |
| 2004 | Forever Beautiful | Clapham Art Gallery, London |
| 2004 | Emma Bennett, Marion Coutts, Anna Lucas | Front, London |
| 2003 | Gate | Dartmoor, UK (open air film screening) |
| 2003 | Artissima 2003 | Turin |
| 2001 | A Month in the Garden | The Museum of Garden History, London |
| 2001 | Bittersweet | Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London |
| 2001 | Unchaperoned | Aroma Project Space, Berlin |
| 2001 | Deptford X | Deptford X, London |
| 2001 | ArtBrussels 2001 | Brussels |
| 1999 | Acrebarparc | Proposition Gallery, Belfast |
| 1999 | Blink | Princelet Street, London |
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| AWARDS & RESIDENCIES: | - | |
| 1997 | British Academy Postgraduate Award | |
| 1996 | ACAVA First Base Studio Residency 1996-1997 | |
| 1996 | Arte Viva Residency, Senegalia, Italy | |
| 1996 | King Sturge Art PrizeL Highly Commended | |
| 1996 | Thames and Hudson Painting Award | |
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| COLLECTIONS: | - | - |
| David Roberts, London | ||
| & Private Collections | ||
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| ARTIST STATEMENT: | - | |
| Bennett’s work consists of appropriated imagery (such as fruit, flowers and animals) that are painted in oil and placed within monochromatic veils of poured lacquer. The luminosity of the original source material is retained but the pictorial motifs are re-presented in new compositional arrangements that suggest alternative narratives. The artist is engaged in an ongoing investigation into the emotions associated with love and death, yet she employs a celebratory combination of languages that reveal an abstract sensibility. Essentially, the work explores the relationship between abstraction and representation; contemporary and historical; signifier and signified. | ||